Example sentences of "[conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 2 | You with a mind full only of natural & unembarrassing thoughts , & of me , probably awoke early and remembered & rejoiced ; perhaps you had even prepared for it , & went happy walks , singing , garlanded . |
| 3 | Thank you very much for your cards which arrived all together just before my birthday on the 15th. it was nice to see the pictures of the priory & of Durham Cathedral — the buildings around here look very flimsy and new in comparison ! |
| 4 | As he read the evidence on primitive societies , where of course there was far less economic specialization , social cohesion was of a very rudimentary kind . |
| 5 | Programmed learning made significant contributions to education , particularly in industrial and military training ( where of course motivation is fairly high and the units of information to be assimilated are uncluttered by humanistic value judgements ) . |
| 6 | This is why graphology was not given a separate heading in our checklist of stylistic features in 3.1 ; it was understood that such features , where of stylistic interest , would be noted under the heading of foregrounding . |
| 7 | This would be equally true in a long tunnel , and in the giant 's beard was long , and in how long is the interval ? , where of course the referential loci of long are the entities corresponding to tunnel , beard , and interval respectively . |
| 8 | party , introduce to your friends , the my mate fancy you technic , almost any where of the questions if the following are mentioned , I shrink , karioke contest |
| 9 | across a lot of papers but in this paper it starts er and as Mr just said it starts as far as incr increments , erm do we know at this time or can we be informed as soon as were informed , where of what , whether implement are erm , like , are restricted by the , the Chancellor 's statement , do we know or , are have we got ta wait ? |
| 10 | Bridget Riley had no intention of either presenting an account of Poussin 's aims and procedures , or of demonstrating Veronese 's debts to his predecessors in Venetian art , as a historian would have felt a duty to do . |
| 11 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 12 | A small gallery may have space to show work in only one medium ; this may have a distorting effect on the activity of the group as a whole or of versatile individuals . |
| 13 | The only possible general comment is limited to a comparison of one year with another , or of one exhibition with some comparable one . |
| 14 | Thematic articles are likely to be found in two sorts of periodicals , general magazines and academic journals , either interdisciplinary or of specialist disciplines . |
| 15 | Many poems contain a critique of poetry , just as many contain a critique of the self-portrayed poet , and of his intention to serve a social or doctrinal system , or of his claim to be a special case . |
| 16 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 17 | By myth is meant here what has generally come to be accepted within sociology and social anthropology since the work of Levi-Strauss : an account of the origins of a society or of particular crucial events in its life , which unite the cosmos to the social structure by actively shaping everyday life perceptions . |
| 18 | They are also an invitation to those who exercise political power to reflect on the nature of man and of human society and in the enactment of laws to eschew the often brilliant attractions of pragmatism , of relativism or of short-term solutions in favour of lasting concern for the common good of all . |
| 19 | The Act is an enabling one and does not affect the existing system unless the leadership of the churches wish to co-operate in a reshaping of the system or of schools in any particular area . |
| 20 | Ferny foliage will make a soft contrast to the spikiness of sword-like leaves , either of yuccas , on drier soils , or of Siberian irises in the damp . |
| 21 | Moreover , they are often flown by early solo pilots who do not have much experience of flying them or of solo aerotowing . |
| 22 | Most gliders are very reluctant to stall in the slip ( try it some time ) , but if the recovery is made at a low speed , or the pilot forgets to ease forwards to prevent the nose rising during the recovery , there is a very real danger of stalling or of flying rather slowly as the glider encounters the wind gradient . |
| 23 | Or of ministers and teachers ? |
| 24 | or of desperate flights ? |
| 25 | But it is accepted by physicalists of all kinds that the meaning or semantic value of internal states must be analysed in terms of their causal relations to stimulus and response , just as it is for the behaviourist 's dispositions , and is not something they possess in their own right , or of themselves . |
| 26 | Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts . |
| 27 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |
| 28 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 29 | There is no neurophysiological model of the kind of convergence that would seem to be necessary for the many different sensations of the moment to be brought into synthetic unity , without loss of their individual distinctiveness and specificity , into the instantaneous sense of ‘ being here ’ ; or of the manner in which experience of many different moments can be synthesized into a sense of continuing self without those moments losing their separateness in memory . |
| 30 | The causal theory of perception relates the object and contents of perception in two directions : there is an afferent limb connecting the object with the nervous system in which perception is generated ; and an efferent limb in virtue of which the neural events ‘ reach out to ’ or ‘ are about or of ’ the object . |