Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pn reflx] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sum up what I have outlined so far , the view of Wimsatt and Brooks is that the essential property of poetry consists in the reconciliation of harmonization of opposites ; that this takes the form of an objective organization of the objective meanings of words ; and that although the same organization generally can not be found in other kinds of discourse , it nonetheless contributes to our knowledge and experience of ourselves and of the world . |
| 2 | The poem , of epic proportions , illuminates the way in which Will arrives at such " kynde knowynge " which embraces both knowledge of himself and of the love of God . |
| 3 | Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological . |
| 4 | The National Portrait Gallery habitually commissions portraits of notable figures for its collection , and , of course , members of the Royal Family are painted regularly , providing a time-lapse documentary of themselves and of the fashions of their age , both in clothes and in painting . |
| 5 | The glass was spotted and discoloured now , and in its depths Louise saw only a sepia-tinted reproduction of herself and of the room behind her . |
| 6 | Such recall led the individual to a deeper understanding of himself and of the traumatic effect on his life of the hitherto ‘ forgotten ’ incidents . |
| 7 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |