Example sentences of "[conj] of [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing wrong with my considering the merits of the law or of action in accord with it . |
| 2 | ( F ) The Absence of a claim or of notice of accident by a Policyholder or other person indemnified by such Policy shall not prevent the operation of this Agreement between the parties hereto . |
| 3 | The attitude of the professional man to his client … is one of pride in service given rather than of interest in opportunity for personal profit . |
| 4 | He was forced to conclude that there was ‘ antagonism between the theological and scientific view of the universe and of education in relation to it . ’ |
| 5 | Mr. Jonathan Thomas Carr felt offended by what he considered was the ugly and tasteless housing being erected in the London suburbs , so he produced a scheme to create a garden suburb of Houses without basements , and of character within reach of people with moderate means , yet at the same time , retaining existing trees wherever possible . |
| 6 | The existence of league tables was further evidence for older officers of inroads into their enforcement discretion and of lack of knowledge among their senior staff of the hard realities of pollution control work . |
| 7 | ‘ For its devotees communism has the value of a religion , insofar as it is felt to provide a complete explanation of reality and of man as part of reality , and at the same time to give to life , as religion does , a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the prints have a quality of Chinese painting in their suggestion of descending cloud and of mist in front of mountains . |
| 9 | The great advantage of having a fixed date er for these European elections on the ninth of June , a date that 's been well known for a considerable time now , should be the certainty for the electorate , that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to European elections , the number of er members of the European parliament that there will be representing the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 11 | At the outset , this dichotomy looks comparatively promising , but once again the equation of determinism with holism on the one hand , and of non-determinism with individualism on the other , gives rise to difficulties . |
| 12 | He was mainly intent upon establishing the principles of " independence " for colonial peoples , of worldwide economic development , and of equality of opportunity for all business people in the world 's markets . |
| 13 | Heads ' management styles should encourage a sense of collective responsibility among teachers , and of commitment to school among pupils and parents ; their management training should be directed towards this . |
| 14 | Higher rates of fetal loss and of mortality in infancy among first than among subsequent births characterizes populations in which fertility is high and women are youngest at first birth . |
| 15 | Nor was it an assessment of homoeopathy alone , but of homoeopathy in combination with avoidance of exposure to the sensitizing organism . |
| 16 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |
| 17 | Most girls born 70 and more years ago can not be traced because of change of name at marriage . |
| 18 | The survey , which covered 93 of the UK 's top 500 companies and 21 financial services groups , was carried out for accountants Ernst & Young last month because of concern about level of understanding among business leaders of the issues involved in ERM membership . |
| 19 | Whether his object in doing this was because of guilt in relation to Meehan or a continued desire for notoriety is impossible to say . |
| 20 | JTR made merry at Gress where breakfast was waiting and congenial company took him along the coastline to caves that , because of lack of stamina on my part , were never redrawn . |
| 21 | ‘ Often the cream of talent drops out because of lack of knowledge about how to effectively use time . ’ |
| 22 | Children of working-class parents are more prone to accidents than other children for a variety of reasons : inadequate housing conditions ; tendency to play in the street because of lack of space at home ; less parental supervision ; and so on . |
| 23 | A total of $100,000,000 in aid had been frozen by the US administration in May because of lack of progress on the compensation of US citizens for property seized by the former Sandinista regime [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 24 | Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field . |
| 25 | He went no further either because of ideological conservatism , or because of lack of courage of his convictions . |
| 26 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |
| 27 | He was not reappointed as master of the choristers , but continued in employment as a lay clerk at least until 30 September 1499 ; because of loss of documentation at Windsor , his career beyond that date can not be traced , and his date of death is unknown . |
| 28 | The Woolwich Equitable Building Society was entitled as of right to interest on the repayment of a capital sum that had been paid to the Inland Revenue pursuant to Regulations that were ultra vires and void . |
| 29 | The preservation of the principle of ‘ insurance ’ was a clear throw-back to the days of Lloyd George and , as he explained in a radio broadcast , his ‘ Plan for Britain' was ‘ based on the contributory principle of giving not free allowances to all from the State , but giving benefits as of right in virtue of contributions made by the insured persons themselves ’ . |