Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If however he had entertained any doubt on the matter , I feel sure that he would as a matter I will not say of honesty but of courtesy refused [ sic ] to accept the money until the position had been made clear to him . |
| 2 | Otherwise they hated him , though there are degrees of honesty as to how far they admit it . ’ |
| 3 | whether nation be understood as a people marked off from others by blood relationship and habit of unity or by peculiarities of language , the most sure and positive sign and essence of a nation in divine and human law … or whether nation be understood as it should be , as a territory equal to that of the French nation |
| 4 | Second , it tended to downgrade the Council of Europe , which came to be regarded by ardent Europeanists only as a symbol of unity and of better things to come . |
| 5 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 6 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
| 7 | This variety is another reason why Orcs and Goblins appeal to so many players , as the number of different troops types enables you to tailor an army to your own style of play or to a particular opponent . |
| 8 | A stretcher was brought out and Lawrence was taken by players and officials — now highly emotional — off the field of play and through a crowded area near the dressing-rooms , amid much jostling , into the sanctuary of the treatment-room . |
| 9 | Like other tours de force , it is done in a spirit of play and of emulation . |
| 10 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 11 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 12 | Carried out by Sneh Shah ( 1990 ) in an analysis of the place of equal opportunities in core and foundation subjects and working from a number of final and interim reports by NCC working parties , three key points were identified , relating to the ways in which equal opportunities were handled in definitions and statements about syllabus content , in criteria of assessment and in statements of non-statutory guidance . |
| 13 | Coventry four-piece the Ludicrous Lollipops compete in the same arena as End 's Atomic Dustbin but do so with a large amount of panache and with fingers firmly placed on a bouncing , glistening pop pulse . |
| 14 | Coventry four-piece the Ludicrous Lollipops compete in the same arena as End 's Atomic Dustbin but do so with a large amount of panache and with fingers firmly placed on a bouncing , glistening pop pulse . |
| 15 | He writes , not of tiredness but of toothache , as follows : |
| 16 | Thus there is today a reiteration of long-established themes , proclaimed more insistently as a consequence of the postwar extension of socialist planning ; opposition to the increasing , more ubiquitous and more centralized power of the state , and to the concomitant growth of public bureaucracy , and on the other side advocacy of decentralization and of what Nisbet ( 1975 , concluding chapter ) has called ‘ a new laissez-faire ’ . |
| 17 | 1 Keep patient informed of progress and of procedures . |
| 18 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 19 | As we argued here on 17 April , Labour 's failure in the 1992 election was more to do with its inability to mobilise its traditional base of support than with any inability to reach out to newer social groupings . |
| 20 | They may need a good deal of support because of these conflicts , yet this is rarely available . |
| 21 | The pressure dependent instruments should of course be scanned , but they should not be relied upon to give accurate indication of instantaneous values or rates of change except during stable flight . |
| 22 | This pre-modernist embrace of history was surely not an embrace of change or of movement . |
| 23 | The identification of areas in which there is bipartisan agreement on the desirability of change or of the maintenance of existing services will be of particular interest . |
| 24 | Thus , in a cumulative response , consensus , dissensus and , possibly , conflict of opinions on matters concerning the management of change and on curriculum theories in action , could be examined between and within the different groups . |
| 25 | The magazine , unfortunately with a deadline of well before Christmas , has this to say of Romania in its summary of how changes in Eastern Europe might affect the game there : ‘ No visible signs of change and with the recent party congress having given the despotic president Nicolae Ceausescu another five years in office and dissident opposition ruthlessly crushed by the secret police , Romania will remain in the Dark Ages for the foreseeable future . ’ . |
| 26 | But as with Althusser 's modes of production , so Foucault 's attempt to elaborate a ‘ positive unconscious ’ of knowledge was criticized by Sartre , and subsequently by many others , for being unable to give any account of change and for implying a total discontinuity between periods . |
| 27 | Third parties need to be alert to the possibility of change and to the actual practices of the body . |
| 28 | She has given a lot of commitment to the strategy ; she now needs to give as much to the process of change and to ensuring that the public understands it . |
| 29 | They need to make a regular picture available to the national originators of change and to those agencies who are responsible for change being organized in specific way . |
| 30 | It may be true that the processes of change and of translating policy into practice are convoluted and very hard to manage . |