Example sentences of "or of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any distance up to about a kilometre from the dwelling is of such little moment for any specialised systems of irrigation and garden farming that little adjustment is called for in either the pattern of settlement or of land use . |
| 2 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 3 | I do n't think we should say anything to Stephen or Eileen or of course Terry until we know more . |
| 4 | But geographical patterns like this demand the jet-eye view , or of course maps . |
| 5 | They gave each other nicknames — Hayward was known as " Tarantula " because of his sometimes acidulous wit , Morley as " Whale " , Faber as " Coot " , and Eliot as " Elephant " ( because he never forgot ) or of course Possum " . |
| 6 | Thematic articles are likely to be found in two sorts of periodicals , general magazines and academic journals , either interdisciplinary or of specialist disciplines . |
| 7 | The investigation of the flow past obstacles or of boundary layers requires a uniform flow with minimal velocity fluctuations . |
| 8 | Secondly , the fortunes of tenants-in-chief or of London aldermen and their families are not necessarily the best guide to trends in the country as a whole . |
| 9 | In a way , its function was similar to that of a Japanese main bank or of Pierpont Morgan in his prime . |
| 10 | of neutrons or of oboe notes |
| 11 | Writing of women , or of sex differences , they frequently switch to psychological or biological levels of explanation . |
| 12 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 13 | This means that it is not enough simply to make SMEs aware of sources of technology or of development programmes which are underway . |
| 14 | Conversely , living in an area of less expensive terraced accommodation or of council houses ( estates composed of houses rented from the local authority are common ) reinforces one 's identification with the working class . |
| 15 | This failure was attributed to defects of language or of home background rather than to an educational system that only valued one kind of language and actively discriminated against working-class culture . |
| 16 | Examples of memes are tunes , ideas , catch-phrases , clothes fashions , ways of making pots or of building arches . |
| 17 | You can process the musical history of the Eighties into any format you like-you could call it the decade of Dance , or of Conscience Rock , or of World Music . |
| 18 | The whole arrangement seemed to me irresistibly reminiscent of T. E. Lawrence retreating from fame as an army officer to obscurity in the ranks , or of Anthony Asquith , the film director , spending his weekends behind the counter of a transport café in Yorkshire . |
| 19 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 20 | Contrast with this case Hiort v. Bott , where A mistakenly sent an invoice for barley to B ( who had ordered none ) , which stated that B had bought the barley of A through G as broker ; and A also sent B a delivery order which made the barley deliverable to the order of A or of B. G then told B there had been a mistake and got B to endorse the delivery order to himself . |
| 21 | What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention . |
| 22 | The summer visitors to Trebetherick were generally the families of retired headmasters of minor public schools , of ex Indian Civil servants or of Harley Street doctors . |
| 23 | There was no thought in those days of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or of inheritance tax . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the proportions of congenital abnormalities preventable by secondary and tertiary methods are estimates based on research studies of particular conditions ( for example , ad hoc epidemiological studies for measuring the effectiveness of neonatal orthopaedic screening ) , or regions ( for example , those having excellent ultrasound scanning and trained staff for diagnosing structural defects , or using the triple test for detection of Down 's syndrome ) or of expert groups ( for example , specific postnatal treatment and early paediatric surgery ) . |
| 25 | This will not be a theory of human intelligence or of machine intelligence , it will be a theory of intelligent information processing , no matter whether that is realised in silicon or in tissue . |
| 26 | The Board has taken no decisions about the timing of the reprocessing of subsequent arisings of AGR fuel or of PWR fuel . |
| 27 | Estimates of the numbers in the trade , or of union membership , are necessarily vague before the union began publishing statistics in the mid-1870s . |
| 28 | Anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz or Marshall Sahlins exploring the cultural manifestations of the Balinese or of South Sea islanders projected interpretations of these cultures which could be read as stories the people of these societies tell about themselves . |
| 29 | Select Holidays offers extension tours of Bangalore/Mysore , or of north India , in conjunction with a Goa holiday . |
| 30 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |