Example sentences of "[conj] of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 2 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 3 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 4 | In general this appears to be a function of the kind of sectors in which they are working , or of the kinds of occupations which they have . |
| 5 | Medical microbiology is concerned with the interactions between micro-organisms and their hosts ; for example , the explanations in biological and molecular terms of infectious processes and resultant host tissue damage , or of the action of antibiotics and antiviral agents , and the emergence of resistant organisms . |
| 6 | There are no reliable estimates of the past or present size of its populations , or of the rates of losses , although fishing is clearly a major cause of accidental death . |
| 7 | He found that the use of this weighting factor gave a better indicator of quality than the numbers of citations or of the numbers of papers published . |
| 8 | However , the Department ( of Education and Science ) had little information about the working of the Act in this phase of education and offered no information about the numbers of children who may be receiving special education under the age of five nor of the number of children who might be the subject of statements below school age . |
| 9 | In other words , your horse 's coat is a reflection more of his health and diet than of the number of hours his owner spends with a body brush . |
| 10 | After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’ |
| 11 | The study contributes towards a comprehensive view of the working of the labour market over a long period and of the sources of shocks disturbing the economy . |
| 12 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
| 13 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 14 | Marco Tulio Hernández , 28 , a member of the Honduran Human Rights Defence Committee and of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees in Honduras was shot dead in San Pedro Sula on July 22 ; the military was widely believed to be responsible . |
| 15 | Some of this exuberance was tempered in time by a greater appreciation of just how much of the world economy would have to be rebuilt after the war , and of the range of obstacles which stood in the way of the realization of the dream of " unhampered trade " . |
| 16 | They should learn to think of appropriateness in written language in terms of these functions and of the range of audiences that writers address , considering the effects , for example , of inappropriately formal vocabulary in personal letters or of colloquial expressions in impersonal writing . |
| 17 | Overall , by 1900 central government action concerning recognized social problems was greater than in 1870 but still slight in contrast with the magnitude of those problems and of the range of demands for action . |
| 18 | At the heart of the debate , and of the promotion of cigarettes to young people , is a crisis of confidence in the House and the country over the good will of the tobacco industry . |
| 19 | She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head . |
| 20 | As it is , when I use mine , I think of her , and of the generations of Merchants that have not been as lucky as I. |
| 21 | Over the following two weeks President Turgut Özal called meetings of both party leaders and of the Council of Ministers , and on April 13 full details of the measures were announced . |
| 22 | Those dropped from the politburo included Vilma Espín Guillois de Castro , the wife of Raúl Castro and president of the Association of Cuban Women ; Armando Hart Dávalos , the Minister of Culture ; Julio Camacho Aguilera , a former ambassador to the Soviet Union ; Pedro Miret Prieto , a Vice-President of the Council of State and of the Council of Ministers ; and Jorge Risquet Valdés-Saldaña [ see p. 37770 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At the annual congress of the CGIL in Rimini on Oct. 22-26 the federation 's reformist secretary-general Bruno Trentin , fighting off challenges both from a current linked to the Socialist Party ( PSI ) and from the old-style communists , claimed that rather than " making demands for the working class " the CGIL would now be " the union of solidarity and of the rights of pensioners , the disabled , immigrants , women and the marginalized " . |
| 25 | As the creation of space is the primary concern , it is not surprising the interests of developers and of the well-being of cities are so often in conflict . |
| 26 | Stringer was admitted a member of the Society of Mineral and Battery Works in December 1692 and of the Society of Mines Royal in June 1693 . |
| 27 | Delamotte belonged to that Society and was a member of the Society of Arts , and of the Society of Artists , having exhibited a number of architectural drawings at the Royal Academy . |
| 28 | Members are aware of the above called-in planning application and of the schedule of meetings arranged to consider the matter . |
| 29 | It was the product of an alliance between Parliament and lawyers and of the intimidation of judges by the House of Commons . |
| 30 | As a result , you become increasingly more aware of the quality of light and shade , of tone and texture and of the shape of buildings . |