Example sentences of "of the [noun] [subord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 2 | Ivor Stanbrook , MP for Orpington , who chairs the Conservative backbench constitutional affairs committee and is an Anglican , said : ‘ The ills of society are as much the responsibility of the Church as of political parties . |
| 3 | LADY DAVERS : We all know that since your Italian duel you have commenced a bravo and all your airs breathe as strongly of the man-slayer as of the libertine . |
| 4 | In the south , especially in the Italian cities , the influence of Roman Law , which placed far more power in the hands of the magistrates than of the ‘ suitors ’ , tended to destroy the quasi-democratic character of the old popular courts . |
| 5 | Experts said that would limit the effectiveness of the operation because of the difficulty in pinpointing airdrops to those in need from high altitudes . |
| 6 | Does it ever occur to these orchestra-first people that , whereas in the theatre , though you may hear more of the orchestra than of the singers , nevertheless your attention is focused visually on the stage , while on disc you need the stage brought into the aural foreground to compensate for the loss of the visual facility ? |
| 7 | Many of them would be as much a record of the times as of TV 's part in them . |
| 8 | We emphasise that the service is managed by Motor Engineers and Assessors independent of the Insurance Company and no reports of these Safety Checks will be referred to your Insurance Company , so please do not refrain from availing of the service because of unfounded fears in this regard . |
| 9 | Since then the Conservatives have lost control of the council because of the election Dr Patrick Lush , a Democrat , to the Westgate ward . |
| 10 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 11 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember any of the country because of me being such a young age , but my sister remembers more than I as she is older than myself . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course he would n't take a bribe from you , or anyone , come to that , and especially someone trying to bribe him out of the country because of a woman — one he happens to love very much . ’ |
| 14 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 15 | After Imran Khan was ruled our of the tour because of his shoulder injury , Miandad was the obvious choice , and a popular one too from the players ' and selectors ' points of view . |
| 16 | The previous year regular Arts Centre visitors complained they had been kept out of the centre because of the massive popularity of the festival . |
| 17 | Some concern has been expressed by the Select Committee on Home Affairs and others at the incompleteness and inaccuracy of the records because of the difficulties of updating the present manual system . |
| 18 | Having rejected much of the literature because of faults found in the methodology , the authors focus their attention on three relatively small clinical trials . |
| 19 | Necrotic areas were prsent in all tumours in the centre of the xenograft because of the lack of tumour vascularisation . |
| 20 | A fair and accurate report of an event by a newspaper would also be the less likely to fall foul of the legislation because of the place in which it is published . |
| 21 | During a recent holiday in Kalimantan ( Indonesian Borneo ) , proposed one-night stay in Pontianak on the west coast degenerated into a forced stop of eight days , due to the closure of the airport because of smoke pollution . |
| 22 | The European Council " underlines the importance of respecting the timetable laid down for ratification to ensure in any case the entry into force of the Treaty as of Jan. 1 , 1993 " . |
| 23 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 24 | People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard . |
| 25 | The proportion will not increase greatly towards the end of the century because of low birth-rates in the 1930s . |
| 26 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 27 | Well why on earth , if you 're s , y'know , you embark on that route why do n't you put something in the budget for the fruits of that exercise and we believe that you can save money by that and that er this is going to be one of those budgets that 's gon na end up er under strength at the end of the day because of that . |
| 28 | It would not be possible at any other time of the year because of the oncoming hot season . |
| 29 | By 1850 the earl was spending most of his time in Italy , having had to close Alton Towers for most of the year because of the expense of upkeep . |
| 30 | In 1990–91 the figure was 2,853 , which is the third highest of that period ( 2,928 in 1985–86 , 2,952 in 1982–83 ) ; it might have been greater , for no manuscripts could be issued during the last five weeks of the year because of the installation of the new fire alarm system in the strong-rooms . |