Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 61 | If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things . |
| 62 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 63 | One aspect of the organization underground has not been touched on directly ; that is the pressure on individuals either by the management or the owners to comply with their interpretation of the order of things . |
| 64 | At the very end of The Order of Things Foucault makes the seemingly baffling observation that " man is an invention of recent date and one perhaps nearing Its end " . |
| 65 | However , there is in theory a distinction between the effects of two types of error of law ( ‘ jurisdictional ’ and ‘ non-jurisdictional ’ ) , which is relevant to the function of the order of certiorari . |
| 66 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 67 | He is probably identifiable as the ‘ John Cyfrewas ’ of the Dominican community in Guildford who was ordained acolyte at Farnham on 19 May 1380 by William of Wykeham , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] ; and as the ‘ Johannes Sifirwas , brother of the Order of Preachers ’ to whom the widow Joan Elveden , from Muchelney ( Somerset ) , bequeathed ‘ one pair of jet praying-beads ’ in her will dated 4 September 1421 . |
| 68 | A brief résumé of the order of events helps to illuminate the course of the arguments about them . |
| 69 | In the light of the order of events involved in the earlier conversion to Schopenhauer , we can surely point to this moment as decisive . |
| 70 | The Windsor whose marriage has caused more intrigue than most poked fun at the speculation with his light-hearted remarks as president of the Court of Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre . |
| 71 | She was co-opted to the Glamorgan county education committee , and became a member of the court of governors of the University of Wales . |
| 72 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 73 | The principal Secretary of State had a salary of £100 per annum from the Crown , the Lord Admiral got £200 , the Master of the Court of Wards £233.6s. 8d. , the Clerk of Wards £20 . |
| 74 | In the same year he was appointed to the lucrative post of attorney of the court of wards , through the influence of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v . ] . |
| 75 | Because of the existence of PACs and of the Court of Referees for benefits under the insurance schemes , the new national scheme included an appeals system . |
| 76 | The order of the Court of Aldermen to admit William Charles to the City freedom is dated 15 January 1799 ; just over two weeks later his brother John , the brave little Frome volunteer , died of his consumption back home . |
| 77 | So we read in the minutes of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Weavers , London , for Tuesday 2 January 1798 : ‘ William Chas . |
| 78 | Minutes of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Weavers , Basinghall Street , London , 2 January , 1798 . |
| 79 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 80 | The most recent , involving the claim that his mental state might not have been adequately conveyed to the jury during his original trial , had been upheld by Judge John Noonan of the Court of Appeals of the ninth US Circuit based in San Francisco , on March 30 , 1990 . |
| 81 | On Feb. 7 , 1990 , Bush nominated Clarence Thomas , 41 , a black conservative lawyer , as judge of the Court of Appeals in Washington . |
| 82 | The member states appoint the Commissioners , the judges and Advocates General of the European Court of Justice , the members of the Economic and Social Committee and those of the Court of Auditors . |
| 83 | The Community has agreed to increase the accountability of European Community institutions ; to strengthen the European Parliament 's financial control over the Commission ; to allow the European Parliament to investigate maladministration and to appoint a Community ombudsman accessible to all Community citizens ; to build up the role of the Court of Auditors , which becomes an institution of the Community ; and to ensure compliance with Community obligations by giving the European Court of Justice power to impose fines on Governments who sign directives but subsequently do not implement them . |
| 84 | So in 1547 Henry VIII decreed the appointment of two Masters and two Surveyors of the Woods , one each for either side of the Trent , as officers of the Court of Augmentations . |
| 85 | The session of 1536 is best remembered for the dissolution of the smaller monasteries , the union of England and Wales , the establishment of the Court of Augmentations , and the seizure of franchises by the Crown . |
| 86 | Several reasons can plausibly be suggested for this : the distance of Stockport from London , the ineffectiveness of the local officers of the Court of Augmentations , confusions of jurisdiction , or simply the relative insignificance of the small town . |
| 87 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 88 | The Minister for Housing , who I am pleased to see is present , recognised in a previous debate that unemployment was a crucial part of the problem of repossessions . |
| 89 | Third , because of the problem of connections , there will need to be an overall national timetable with information on what space is available for cycles . |
| 90 | What needs to be explained is , what makes a meaningful use of such phrases possible in regard to ontological existents , and such explanation can not be provided without a detailed analysis of the problem of relations and of the concept of objectivity . |