Example sentences of "and of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of resources and of help from the government also hampered voter registration , which in August was delayed by three weeks until Sept. 3 . |
| 2 | The unification of Italy and of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century was a belated achievement by the bourgeoisie in those countries of a large , efficiently organized modern state , essential for the rapid development of capitalist production , such as already existed in most of Western Europe and in the US . |
| 3 | Reg Dixon , British Gas South Western Operations Director said : ‘ British Gas is a well known supporter of energy efficiency and of protection of the environment . |
| 4 | The character of the Nun 's Priest is a complex of knowledge , attitude and sympathy : knowledge of learning , literature and the ars praedicandi ( " art of preaching " ) , attitudes of detachment from but understanding of the rarefied world of speculative learning , and of sympathy towards the commoner run of humanity for whom this learning is mystifying and in practical terms irrelevant . |
| 5 | While the landowners ' organisation is isolated at the local level , the problems of compensation for affected landowners and of management of the protected areas remain , largely due to the reluctance of the government . |
| 6 | These elites are internally divided around different interpretations of liberal ideology stressing the competing claims of private property and of merit in the allocation of social privileges . |
| 7 | We have been carried very far indeed away from the medieval vision of society , of Christendom , of the place of the church and of theology as the crown of genuine knowledge . |
| 8 | ‘ The rights deriving from the above-mentioned provisions of the Treaty include not only the rights of establishment and of participation in the capital of companies or firms but also the right to pursue an economic activity , as the case may be through a company , under the conditions laid down by the legislation of the country of establishment for its own nationals . |
| 9 | These included advocacy of the Palestinian 's " right to an independent and demilitarized Palestinian state " and of participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the peace negotiations , once the PLO had proved that it recognized Israel and had " ceased terrorism " . |
| 10 | Language social class and educability : the influence of the environment , of social class , and of education on the individual 's control and understanding of language , and of the relation between aspiration and language use . |
| 11 | Instead , the Scotland stand-off 's tragic misfortune figured in the jeering and taunting to which the wives and girl friends of the players , and of others in the SRU party , were subjected . |
| 12 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 13 | Generative linguists consider punctuation to be simply prosody and of relevance for the language — or they may simply believe it to be uninteresting . |
| 14 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 15 | A ‘ schema ’ for the story is established and the recall is tailored to this , producing particular transformations of detail and of order in the story . |
| 16 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
| 17 | So spare a thought for their original research they speak with feeling of badly-signed junctions and of chaos over the A1 and its renaming round Tyneside . |
| 18 | The world of Fisher Row — and no doubt of other occupational groups in early-modern times — was one that thought in terms of family duties and privileges , of family alliances and of inheritance through the family . |
| 19 | The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition . |
| 20 | We have shown that the initial stages of T-cell development require the support both of MHC class II + epithelial cells and of fibroblasts in the thymic stroma . |
| 21 | This dramatic dimension has been an important aspect of rockets from the German 1944 V-2s onwards and of satellites from the Soviet 1957 Sputnik onwards . |
| 22 | The reaction of parents to infants , and of friends to the speech of those who are gravely ill , is to attribute meaning to any murmur which can be interpreted as relevant to the context of situation , and , if at all possible , to interpret what appears to be being said as constituting a coherent message , permitting the hearer to construct a coherent interpretation . |
| 23 | At a more detailed level considerable variations are possible from model to model , such as the exact ratios of hydrogen to helium and of hydrogen to the other substances . |
| 24 | Far too often we hear of the politics of policing , and of criticism of the police as they fight crime and protect the public . |
| 25 | The University will take account of the report of the Academic Auditors ( which is expected in August 1993 ) and of reports of the HEFCE quality assessors as they review individual subjects . |
| 26 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 27 | The air of human drama and of history in the making is especially potent in times of crisis , when leaders can be shown locked in combat , for example Reagan with Gadaffi over the US bombing of Libya in April 1986 . |
| 28 | A Catholic priest and Canon of Digne , he was also Professor of Philosophy at Aix , and of Mathematics at the College Royale in Paris . |
| 29 | They are able to pursue a ‘ global strategy ’ , and this has often involved the closure of older plants in inner-city areas , with large losses of employment and of income to the local population . |
| 30 | Her approach would be to treat spelling as a part of writing on the one hand and of pronunciation on the other . |