Example sentences of "and of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such questions have been raised over the investments of Goldman Sachs 's Water Street Fund in the bonds of Tonka and of JCI . |
| 2 | These reflections on the mediating role of authoritative directives and of rules generally explain why they are reasons for actions . |
| 3 | How important have been the constraints of history and of resources ? |
| 4 | What is or is not " in the neighbourhood " of the premises must be a question of degree and of circumstances in each case . |
| 5 | It provided for a ban on imports of ozone-gobbling chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , of products containing CFCs , and of products which used CFCs in their manufacturing process . |
| 6 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 7 | ( The fact that the entity is single at the intensional level explains why the verb is singular despite the plurality of nouns and of referents . ) |
| 8 | Soho at this hour was an area of delivery vans , and of pavements that were wet with hosing-down . |
| 9 | Use of electronic mail is escalating and supplements the work of the student management system , for example , as a means of' transmission of reports , and of requests for information . |
| 10 | The Software Performance Report ( SPR ) provides the user with a vehicle for formal notification of errors and malfunctions in the LIFESPAN system , and of requests for changes to the system . |
| 11 | Fowler argues that the analyst should attend particularly to the social function of linguistic structures in literature ; texts should not be viewed as self-contained systems but as process , ‘ the communicative interaction of implied speakers and thus of consciousness and of communities ’ ( p. 94 ) . |
| 12 | A full understanding of the politics of Pisticci , and of communities like it , requires us to understand the idioms of kinship , friendship and clientship — as well as those of organisational rank and of class . |
| 13 | This is true both of the mutual exchange of rights and obligations by the parties and of provisions intended to bind third parties . |
| 14 | In respect of the role of the CBI and of employers , I pay tribute to the work done by employers and by the National Employers Liaison Committee . |
| 15 | Jenny is nice about the mess , but disturbed by what he tells her — in words that call to mind the language , and the drift , of this poem and others by Larkin , and of passages in Larkin 's fiction where Jack is denied his Jill . |
| 16 | There has been a substantial increase in coverage of the Chamber and of committees in regional broadcasting ; some regions , BBC and ITV , have generated good week-end reviews which give more time to back-bench MPs . |
| 17 | The history consisted of genealogies ( which were different in their emphases and resonances from place to place and from person to person ) and of anecdotes , poems , stories , all of which were similarly variable . |
| 18 | Again the notions of legal fictions and of rituals whose meaning may alter despite continuity of formal behaviour are useful . |
| 19 | These terms are not further defined ; they include taking the evidence of witnesses and of experts , viewing a place , and examining commercial books and records ; they do not include any acte d'execution such as ordering the return of an abducted child . |
| 20 | The story of the Borders is largely one of cattle-rustling on a scale which would have amazed even the American Wild West , of internecine feuds as violent as those of Sicily , and of cliques of racketeers who brought into the language the term ‘ blackmail ’ , meaning ‘ black meal ’ or ‘ black rent ’ — in other words , protection money . |
| 21 | The report put the cost of immunization and of medicines to cure diarrhoea and pneumonia at US$2,500 million per year : " Two and a half billion dollars is a substantial sum … |
| 22 | And of thrillers . |
| 23 | The multiplanar capability of MRI is also useful for examination of the chest , and of areas such as the branchial plexus and axillae in patients suspected of recurrent breast cancer . |
| 24 | They also have documentary evidence of the polluted state of the creek , and of lorries leaving the tannery with loads of contaminated sludge for dumping . |
| 25 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
| 26 | Similarly , the Fourth Lateran Council , in its second decree , condemned the teaching of Joachim of Fiore ( namely that there were four persons in the Trinity ) , as expounded in his book against Peter Lombard , and went on to define the duties of secular rulers and of bishops to fight heresy in their kingdoms and dioceses . |
| 27 | The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood . |
| 28 | Because of this pedigree , the opinions of the Left and of liberals have shied away from examination of the issue of morality in relation to crime . |
| 29 | ( For a further discussion of this case and of contracts of barter , see paragraphs 8–03 and 8–04 below . ) |
| 30 | The professor will be expected to oversee the provision of lectures in Mathematics to first-year students ( for the greater part , those reading Chemistry ) , and of problems classes related to them . |