Example sentences of "and of [noun sg] " 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 | This is the pull of incomes for poor people , and of sea , sun and snow for the rich . |
| 3 | Anthropologists and others have produced evidence of the range of languages and institutions within which ‘ scientific progress ’ has been made , as in the mix of mathematics and astrology in ancient Greece ( Goody , 1977 , p. 17 ) , and of geometry and the building of sacred altars in ancient India ( Parry , 1982 , p. 23 ) , while in Europe developments can be traced through a number of traditions , of which the essayist tradition is only one . |
| 4 | This hypothesis gave later biologists something to test , and in the event to prove false , thus indicating the truth of Bacon 's dictum that error is better then confusion , and of Popper 's idea that science works through conjectures and refutations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This ratio in turn depends on the relative rate of growth of capital employed and of output produced . |
| 7 | Mistress of death and of birth , |
| 8 | Following his nature , and before his sixteenth birthday , Edward Thomas had somehow combined a love of nature and of literature , twin aspects of realized contemplation that were to characterize his life as a writer of prose and verse . |
| 9 | However , the work which most dramatically highlights the unreliability of the world and of literature 's portrayal of it is perhaps José Donoso 's The Obscene Bird of Night , whose schizophrenic narrator/protagonist experiences modern man 's ontological insecurity as a psychological condition . |
| 10 | That , given the negative role of many constituency parties in the past , will be an act of courage and of faith . |
| 11 | The ceiling was flat and of wood , simple but decoratively finished . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that employees ( who are not shadow directors ) owe such a high level of duty to the company , though they are still subject to a lower duty of good faith and of confidentiality . |
| 13 | He was accused of illegal possession of firearms and of embezzlement of public funds . |
| 14 | 1974 ) and of amino-acid dating , especially as applied to coasts of the USA ( Wehmiller , 1982 ) , has advanced knowledge and has allowed separation of sea level and tectonic components on rapidly uplifting coastlines . |
| 15 | It therefore operates for Althusser both at the level of science and of ideology , not in terms of truth to falsity , but as an irresolvable dialectic between the differential relations of the mode of production and the historicism of the ideological notion of history . |
| 16 | The questions of the subject and of ideology raise as their corollary the problem of what position of enunciation the historian can claim in relation to his or her own work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In fulfilling these aims , specific use of the potential of different aspects of language and of literacy has been instrumental . |
| 19 | Everything else might be changed by the demands of story and of ratiocination — there are clear differences , for instance , between the accounts of that scene in the 1925 poem ‘ Light as Leaf on Lindentree ’ and in Aragorn 's song on Weathertop — but to the vision itself he remained true , working out from it as from the detailed paintings of Lake Mithrim , Nargothrond , Gondolin , etc. , which he made in the 1920s ( see Pictures 32–6 ) . |
| 20 | The Profitboss encourages risk-taking , knowing that in the absence of risk there will be an absence of decision and of profit . |
| 21 | The same thing happens when , later in the essay , Eliot defines the limitation of Pound 's kind of criticism ( for ‘ any kind of criticism has its limitations ’ ) : ‘ The limitation of Pound 's kind is in its concentration upon the craft of letters , and of poetry especially ’ . |
| 22 | Yet if one accepts that a number of very accomplished poets remained firmly off the routes of mainstream development , it must be accepted that the history of women 's poetry , and of poetry in general through the eighteenth century , has been interpreted in a simplistic manner . |
| 23 | The overall effect of the song in Rivendell is perhaps to show Bilbo approaching a body of lore and of poetry higher than the normal hobbitic vein , higher indeed than mortals can normally comprehend . |
| 24 | He was a connoisseur of music , especially Beethoven 's piano works , and of poetry and literature ( in several languages ) . |
| 25 | There were , as well , jumble sales , and stories are told of men 's silk hats mysteriously and miraculously transformed into stylish ladies ' bonnets , and of feather mattresses disintegrating , to the great discomfort of those transporting them . |
| 26 | But it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain that the behavioural products of human imagination and of ape imagination are wholly different in kind . |
| 27 | His paradoxical logic is in many respects similar to the non-binary logical structures developed in France in the late 1960s to account for the peculiarities of literature and of narrative in particular ( see section 3.2 above ) . |
| 28 | ‘ She had many admirers , ’ the old mother said as they neared the house in a tone of puzzlement and of mourning . |
| 29 | With the exception of Costa Rica , these countries have recent histories of domination by authoritarian or colonial regimes , and of insurgency and resistance or even outright civil war . |
| 30 | To compare the effects of sodium depletion and of angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibition on microalbuminuria in insulin dependent diabetes . |