Example sentences of "and of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the company 's affairs at 31 March 1991 and of its deficit and source and applications of funds for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies ACT 1985 . |
| 2 | Nijazi Beqa and his co-defendants were accused of having joined an illegal organization , of having distributed ‘ hostile propaganda materials ’ and of organizing petitions of a ‘ hostile ’ nature to officials in and outside Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | Description is a heading which includes both a description of the work itself and of the critic 's response to it . |
| 4 | Georgina Masson 's special gift was her ability to disentangle and evoke in Rome three different cities , of Classical Antiquity , of the Renaissance , and of the Baroque . |
| 5 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 6 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 7 | In Argentina , according to Naipaul 's journalism , such an act belongs to the fantasies of machismo : here , at the end of the world , and of Ahmed 's tether , it bears the mark of defeat . |
| 8 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
| 9 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 10 | It speaks of the separation of races , and of a world which mixes them up . |
| 11 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 12 | Born in Hamburg , he was transferred to the Manor House at Amnersfield , the son of a remote German-American mother and of a sour , withdrawn , irritable Anglo-Scottish father , who would retreat behind the Times and spend the evening in lonely state , smoking his pipe in his kilt . |
| 13 | Later in the book Mr Fraser recognises that he has talked both of rubbing out the past and of preserving it : ‘ The aims seem contradictory , do n't they ? |
| 14 | Glasser thunders on : ‘ Both Lilian and Mary invested too much emotional capital in their opposition to father , whose influence naturally remained dominant , try as they might to escape ; and this imbalance distorted their view of relationships and of the world . ’ |
| 15 | He has grown up as one of ‘ the orphans of the plague ’ who roam the streets of the city in the aftermath of the plague and of the fire that followed it . |
| 16 | It will be the work both of one hand and of the other . |
| 17 | It is plain that there are many ways of being and of imagining a someone other . |
| 18 | The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 20 | Like other tours de force , it is done in a spirit of play and of emulation . |
| 21 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 22 | Many poems contain a critique of poetry , just as many contain a critique of the self-portrayed poet , and of his intention to serve a social or doctrinal system , or of his claim to be a special case . |
| 23 | The reader who believes he is learning things about Imperial Ethiopia may be equally inclined to tell himself that this is a country of the mind , constructed on principles not very different from those of the Samuel Johnson who devised , for the Abyssinia of Rasselas , just representations of general truths and of a common humanity . |
| 24 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 25 | Jenny is nice about the mess , but disturbed by what he tells her — in words that call to mind the language , and the drift , of this poem and others by Larkin , and of passages in Larkin 's fiction where Jack is denied his Jill . |
| 26 | Whether it is or not , the poem can be called distinctive — distinctive both of Larkin and of Amis . |
| 27 | In all this sharp distinguishing , in all this enemy thing that Amis has , there are elements of anxiety , and of misrepresentation . |
| 28 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 29 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 30 | There are times when his world can appear to consist of Jews and of those to whom a Jew might wish to escape — such as America 's well-heeled Wasps , or the semi-imaginary anti-Semites of Gloucestershire who figure affluently in The Counterlife . |