Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words .
2 In my view the effect of the Effer v. Kantner decision is that a court other than a court of the defendant 's country of domicile can not accept the jurisdiction on the mere assertion or pleading of the plaintiff .
3 Once jurisdiction can properly be established on this basis then the effect of article 5(1) in the light of the Effer v. Kantner decision is that the court has jurisdiction finally to determine the issues between the parties .
4 " It is stated to this Meeting that the Lint Miln is keep 'd in very bad order , and that it is insufficient to manufacture the Lint of the Parish independent of the Lint of the whole Island .
5 Further , it implies that the kingfisher need not be able to articulate the image of the stickleback into independently recognized component parts : it could perceive a fish without being able to perceive a fin .
6 The support of the lexeme of apple can therefore be discovered simply by confronting our experience with the notion itself .
7 There was evidently doubt as to the status of the Armagnac lordships and about the nature of the homage to be performed .
8 Moreover , the technology is available to transpose that part of the chromosome into a related species which will then produce offspring bearing the particular characteristic .
9 circular DNA molecules able to replicate independently of the chromosome in microorganisms .
10 And Sarrance is the setting in which her group of competing story-tellers gather , after they have been driven out of the spa of Cauterets , up in the mountains , by bad weather .
11 For steady-state operation at zero load torque the position of the rotor at the phase switching times is illustrated in Fig. 4.3 with reference to the torque/position characteristics of a three-phase motor operated with a one-phase-on excitation scheme .
12 The effect of changing the excitation from stack A to stack B is to produce alignment of the stator and rotor teeth in stack B. This new alignment is made possible by a movement of the rotor in the clockwise direction ; the motor moves one " step " as a result of the excitation change .
13 This angle accounts for the lag of the rotor behind the phase equilibrium position as the load on the motor increases .
14 Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point .
15 But because of the evidence neither can we explain it away : there is the beginning of the rationality of faith .
16 The notion of ‘ rational choice ’ introduces us to another , more sophisticated conception of the rationality of racism , and one which does not require this kind of double standard .
17 Lakatos explicitly stated that the ‘ central problem in philosophy of science is … the problem of stating universal conditions under which a theory is scientific ’ , a problem which is ‘ closely linked with the problem of the rationality of science ’ and whose solution ‘ ought to give us guidance as to when the acceptance of a scientific theory is rational or not ’ .
18 In the mouth of the alley at the end of the tunnel two more shapes starting from the bridge into the darkness hesitated , and then stopped .
19 After studying her for a moment in silence , he added , ‘ What possessed you to take off your shoes and come charging out of the alley like that ? ’
20 Finally , there is also the question of the policing of the offences defined by the Act .
21 In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA .
22 In the second instance public criticism of the policing of the urban disorders and riots of 1981/82 , coupled with mounting evidence of systematic discrimination against the black community , created a situation in which the practices of the ‘ copper on the beat ’ came under close scrutiny both from within the force itself and from various watchdog bodies .
23 But given the lengthiness of the dispute , the demands of other policework , and the regularity of ‘ trouble ’ , the ‘ permanent ’ mobile reserve , the SPG , became a routine feature of the policing of Grunwick , and especially the confrontational aspects .
24 If you do like catfish and have not done so already then I recommend that you join the Catfish Association of Great Britain , and share this area of the hobby with others who do .
25 Do not retrace your steps on leaving , but carry on past the observatory tower , completed by Anselmo Lurago and a reminder of the prominence of the Jesuits in the sciences .
26 But there is a symbolic importance of the prominence of Mr. Flynn in Fianna Fáil .
27 The use of sponsors ' logos should not be at the expense of the prominence of the HCIMA logo ;
28 The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market .
29 Shackleton , Ries , and Coward ( 1982 ) made estimates of the depth of the main Variscan decollement in southwestern England based on cleavage attitudes and shortening , and concluded that a thin-skinned model was appropriate and that the granites are rootless .
30 In time a limit may be reached , not because of the depth of the pit but because it becomes too wide and approaches land that must not be disturbed .
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