Example sentences of "power of the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the degree of moral outrage is widespread and simmering then the individual who ignites the fire has a high chance of success ; the enormous , potential power of the base of the hierarchy is ignited . |
| 2 | The power of the worker vis-a-vis the group members is acknowledged , but nowhere are the power differentials between members — attributable to race , gender , class and disability — recognised , or incorporated into the theory . |
| 3 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
| 4 | The Power of the Origin of the Created God |
| 5 | This defeat of Ecgfrith represented a decisive stage in the delineation of the frontier between Mercians and northern Angles — so that henceforth the power of the king of the northern Angles was more narrowly defined as north-Humbrian — and went some way towards redressing the débâle of Wulfhere 's last year or so . |
| 6 | This primitive image would have been appropriate to the fierce power of the sun in the eastern deserts . |
| 7 | The leader appears to have a special aura , or power ( mana ) , around him which is compared to the power of the hypnotist over the subject , or the power of the analyst in the transference situation in analysis . |
| 8 | They point to the laws against divorce , abortion , and contraception , the power of the church in the education sector and past evidence of a hot-line between bishops and politicians as the proof of their contention . |
| 9 | In the beauty of a sunset or a flower in the power of the sea in the kindness of people we know . |
| 10 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 11 | The unease of the Chancellor-democracy is not only a protest at the executive power of the head of the government , but is also a hidden criticism of the opposition , which all too often fails to offer an alternative . ’ |
| 12 | The power of the parent over the child ? |
| 13 | The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ( d. 1190 ) had established the German monarchy and built up the power of the emperor in the north to a hitherto unparalleled degree . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Whether or not the power of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to require by notice in writing a person under investigation to answer questions or otherwise furnish information continues after that person has been charged with an offence . |
| 15 | Over the years the slow accumulation of bonds by the Club ( mostly by gift ) increasingly concentrated the power of the Club in the hands of those whose bonds were still to be redeemed , i.e. fewer and fewer people . |
| 16 | What John Rennie does not consider is the buying power of the audience to the Royal . |
| 17 | The leader appears to have a special aura , or power ( mana ) , around him which is compared to the power of the hypnotist over the subject , or the power of the analyst in the transference situation in analysis . |
| 18 | Such cautionary tales lost nothing in the telling , and they served to elevate the power of the shrines of the saints , and also to protect and strengthen the right of asylum claimed for churches in Roman Law and in the Church canons . |
| 19 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 20 | Not for the power of the flight of the eagles that come from there , or their cunning or aggressiveness . |
| 21 | Others , including Stead , attacked the bill for increasing the arbitrary power of the police on the streets . |
| 22 | Thus , part of the explanation for the power of the official over the politician may well be the extent to which the politician relies upon the official for information in order to make decisions . |
| 23 | If the question of professional misconduct had been pursued the issue would not merely have been the efficacy of the Code but the power of the employer against the strength and stature of the profession , and thence the credibility of the profession . |
| 24 | Let us imagine a very clear-cut situation in which the power of the sender over the receiver is considerable : an army sergeant speaking to a private just before parade . |
| 25 | It is probably not coincidental that there exists these two areas of human interest , namely , the areas of religion on the one hand and that of the healing power of the mind on the other , where there is a similar absence of that clear-cut knowledge or faith the attainment of which is so sought after . |
| 26 | Instead of class analysis and the more obvious communist objectives the Party was to advance on a broad front as the dominant power of the League For The Independence Of Vietnam : the Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh or , in its more memorable form , the Vietminh . |
| 27 | It is also worth remembering that choice of topic is affected by the power of the subjects of the research to resist the investigation . |