Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 2 | Firstly are those with little damage to the skull , where the ratio of isolated to associated maxillae is less that 0.5 ( column 5 ) or the percentage of maxillae in skulls ( per cent completeness ) is more then 70 per cent ( column 4 ) . |
| 3 | The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal . |
| 4 | They do not reveal as much about the value of the relief received , or the degree of willingness with which it was paid . |
| 5 | However , certain special features of underwriting arrangements ( ie the proportion of the ultimate total liability assumed by an underwriter , the commission structure , or the degree of involvement of the underwriter with the offeror in connection with the offer ) may be such as to lead the Panel to conclude that a sufficient level of understanding has been created between the offeror and the underwriter for them to be treated as acting in concert . |
| 6 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |
| 7 | Consider in this light the following example : It is unlikely that Shakespeare or the majority of writers in construction of their work imagined the twentieth-century reader or considered the possibility that the reader would be of another race or colour than his own ( the exception to this assumption can be found in later twentieth-century writers ) . |
| 8 | It follows that a refusal to permit felling or the imposition of conditions on operations which are either contrary to the principles of good forestry or destructive of amenity ought not to carry any compensation rights . |
| 9 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 10 | Their outstanding abilities lay elsewhere and ie is to their fine engineering achievements in vaulting such constructions as the Basilica of Constantine and the Baths of Diocletian , or in the building of amphi-theatres such as the Colosseum , or in layouts like the Palace of Diocletian in Split or the Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli that we can appreciate their genius for architectural effect and scale in planning . |
| 11 | Your environment includes some pretty harsh realities , far divorced from pronking gazelles , or the tracery of veins on a leaf . |
| 12 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 13 | Her shtick is dissertations on the epistemology of Martin Buber , or the influence of Gematria on Spinoza 's mathematical thought … |
| 14 | Erm I think they probably thought their jobs were at threat or the continuation of employment in their quarry and the quarry would shut down which manage management had certainly hinted at , yet which I considered to be a bluff , because no one 's gon na kill the goose that lays the golden egg . |
| 15 | This chapter will concentrate on these ‘ historical sketches ’ as a way of illustrating in general terms the pattern of ‘ de-alignment ’ or the loosening of ties between the press and the political parties which has taken place from the mid-Victorian period onwards . |
| 16 | According to a parliamentary statement in 1981 : ‘ All the above material was exported for civil use principally for R&D on fast reactor programmes or the recycling of plutonium in thermal reactors . ’ |
| 17 | It involved reading , the consultation of several books and resources , the study of visual or aural material , and the production of work or the answering of questions from all these sources ; it could also involve creative writing or drama , and small group work following productive discussion . |
| 18 | This sequence of events can be demonstrated diagrammatically in a simplified form , as in Figure 28. l , which shows how each element is linked to form a continuous process ending either in the achievement of targets or the modification of plans as a result of feedback ( see Figure 28.2 ) . |
| 19 | Each step should be simple and complete in itself — preferably with some indication that successful completion has been achieved , for example the appearance or the change of colour of a signal light , or the noise of a motor starting or a change of pressure which indicates that there has been a change in the flow of some material . |
| 20 | In addition , there is a complex interaction between HBsAg/pre-S2 and pre-S1 that can lead to the cosecretion or the inhibition of secretion of these antigens , depending on the relative concentrations of HBsAg/pre-S2 and pre-S1 . |
| 21 | Studies in cultured cells have suggested that the cosecretion or the inhibition of secretion of HBsAg/pre-S2 and pre-S1 might depend on their relative concentrations . |
| 22 | To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own . |
| 23 | Presumably the freezing or canning of peas or the turning of meat into sausages would amount to such an industrial process . |
| 24 | Those restrictions relate to : ( a ) prices to be charged for goods or services ; or ( b ) the terms or conditions on or subject to which goods or services are to be supplied ; or ( c ) the quantities or descriptions of goods to be produced , supplied or acquired or the extent to which , or the scale on which services are to be made available supplied or obtained ; or ( d ) the manufacturing process to be used , or the quantities or the description of goods to which such a process is to be applied ; or ( e ) the form or manner in which services are to be made available , supplied or obtained ; or ( f ) the persons to , for or from whom or the areas or places in or from which goods or services are to be supplied or acquired . |
| 25 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 26 | Nothing could be further from costume drama or the spreading of cloaks over puddles . |
| 27 | They did not include the banners of Edward of England , or the Fighting Man or the Dragon of Harold of Wessex . |
| 28 | Village headmen used their control over minor administrative matters , especially the threat of reporting the illicit cultivation of chenas or the cutting of timber on Crown land , to receive a steady unofficial income . |
| 29 | ‘ Refinement ’ or the reduction of competition from non-usable species , often leads to a considerable increase in the area occupied by the crop , so that once this is cut , there are lots of gaps for pioneers . |
| 30 | Much of this will involve the formulation of new policies that do not require legislation , or the determination of responses to new crises within the department . |