Example sentences of "[conj] of [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of a significant number of such pupils in the ‘ integrated ’ schools would ensure that the manner and style of those places would change : there would be no risk of new pupils simply being absorbed into the mores of the upper classes , or of a repetition of the kind of conflict from which a working-class minority had suffered in grammar schools . |
| 2 | Agatha was arguably the daughter of King Stephen of Hungary , or of Bruno , brother of the German Emperor Henry II , or of a half-brother of the Emperor Henry III , or of none of them . |
| 3 | If members of the public generally or of a section of the public share an interest which has been interfered with by government action , the protection of that interest by court action is made much easier if one person can bring an action as representative of a large number of people . |
| 4 | A careful consideration of the nature of virtues , or of the lives of the saints and apostles may help , as will meditation on the Passion and Mary , whose virtues enabled Christ to be born and make manifest the wisdom and goodness of God . |
| 5 | This is so notwithstanding any resolution of the creditors ' committee or of the creditors to the contrary ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 6 | Secondly , is it right that relief should be refused because the court disapproves of the applicant personally or of the motives behind the bringing of the application ? |
| 7 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 9 | This fear of the same , or of the proximity of the same , or of the threat of the same , structures the violence not only of the homosocial , but of sexual difference itself . |
| 10 | In the absence of other acceptable proposals or of the will on the part of government to override opposition to such proposals as existed , shortage of revenue remained an obstacle to central government action and was acutely worsened by the high cost of the Boer War which opened in 1899 . |
| 11 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
| 12 | The alternative view is that the state comes into being and is maintained as an instrument of domination , as a result either of the internal differentiation of society into dominant and subordinate classes ( according to the Marxist theory ) , or of the imposition of the rule of one group of people upon another by conquest ( as Oppenheimer argued ) . |
| 13 | That seems a strangely ill-prepared way to attend such a debate — without a copy of the Bill or of the Hansard of the Standing Committee , with Mr. Speaker 's selection of amendments or copies of those amendments . |
| 14 | This condition provides that a consignment note can act as a receipt but under contract law should not be taken as ‘ evidence of the condition or of the correctness of the declared nature , quantity , or weight of the Consignment at the time it is received by the Carrier ’ . |
| 15 | These were set off by news of Bayonne , of Murat 's executions of the patriots of the 2nd of May in Madrid , or of the failure of the authorities to celebrate the feast of St. Ferdinand . |
| 16 | This fear of the same , or of the proximity of the same , or of the threat of the same , structures the violence not only of the homosocial , but of sexual difference itself . |
| 17 | We do not , however , know whether this reflects voluntary behaviour , whether it is a result of deficiencies of the individuals concerned , or of the situation in the local/occupational labour market in which they are located . |
| 18 | In this discussion it has been hard to draw the line between issues that are essentially ‘ characteristics of policy ’ that affect implementation , and points that are really observations about the characteristics of either the relationships between central policy makers and local implementers , or of the organization of the implementing agencies . |
| 19 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 20 | ( 6 ) Any lease or underlease , at a rent , or in consideration of a fine , for life or lives or for any term of years determinable with life or lives , or on the marriage of the lessee , or any contract therefor , made before or after the commencement of this Act , or created by virtue of Part V of the Law of Property Act 1922 , shall take effect as a lease , underlease or contract therefor , for a term of ninety years determinable after the death or marriage ( as the case may be ) of the original lessee , or of the survivor of the original lessees , by at least one month 's notice in writing given to determine the same on one of the quarter days applicable to the tenancy , either by the lessor or the persons deriving title under him , to the person entitled to the leasehold interest , or if no such person is in existence by affixing the same to the premises , or by the lessee or other persons in whom the leasehold interest is vested to the lessor or the persons deriving title under him … |
| 21 | There are no mentions of the well researched and replicated findings on reading problems , nor of the nature of the speech problems experienced . |
| 22 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 23 | The failure to arrive at any detailed results is a reflection of the complexity of the issues involved rather than of the failure of the protagonists of the human capital theory to recognise the problem . |
| 24 | The ending of what amounted to class segregation was less a matter of the democratic spirit of professionals finally asserting itself than of the decline of the amateur . |
| 25 | Talk that night was less of the glory of Gower than of the intricacies of the Aqib Affair . |
| 26 | was in the back room cos of the size of the fireplace and one in that corner but they 're in the way , that was only temporary while the house is upside down and I 've put two |
| 27 | The A fifty nine north , the A fifty nine the A nineteen north and the B one three six three , I agree with the district councils , it would be very difficult cos of the character of the landscape to assimilate a new settlement within them . |
| 28 | no point for promotion and were n't allowed to go off , cos of the state of the ground |
| 29 | Er , might as well move the next one in and that cell 's got a file linking formulae which is updated cos of the files in the memory . |
| 30 | Firstly , there are anatomical reports of ventricular enlargement and cortical atrophy in people with chronic schizophrenia , and of a thickening of the corpus collosum and cerebral atrophy ( Cutting , 1985 ) . |