Example sentences of "[coord] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was not so much the fear of the air — or of the weary hours to be passed before they reached London Heathrow — as the fear of the ocean . |
| 2 | And when at rest , does man 's best friend lie in contemplation of his next act , or of the possible menus for his next meal ? |
| 3 | If it is a global feature then it too could be the direct result of inhomogeneous accretion , or of the final stages of compaction of accreted bodies under an overburden that grows with depth . |
| 4 | I doubted whether Ted spoke to Auntie Jean of this , or of the other manifestations of love that filled our hours — of Eva , for example , imitating the numerous grunts , sighs , snorts and moans which punctuated Dad 's conversation . |
| 5 | The examples of Denmark or of the other members of the Community may in some respects be encouraging , in others not ; but certainly to look into classrooms beyond the Channel , however superficially , is to be reminded that written curricula and centralised administrations do not have to be unwieldy , dictatorial or reactionary . |
| 6 | So United States courts have declared invalid service which met the requirements of state law or of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure but which did not meet the terms of the convention and a Netherlands court has refused to grant exequatur to a Belgian judgment granted after service which complied with Belgian law but not the convention 's requirements . |
| 7 | After all , this accuracy order might be a function of this particular test design , or of the particular groups of subjects . |
| 8 | Or of the light sculptures of Thomas Skomski at Rosa Esman ( until 18 April ) ? |
| 9 | There is no end to this process ; no ultimate truth or understanding of either education or of the scientific aspects of the world around . |
| 10 | There is no end to this process ; no ultimate truth or understanding of either education or of the scientific aspects of the world around . |
| 11 | Nor does it make any statements about the costs of administrative and managerial change , or of the considerable developments in information technology which will be required to carry out some of its proposals . |
| 12 | Yet over and over again , one finds that the application to problems in old age has to be made , that prevailing attitudes have discouraged appropriate and sensitive appraisal of the intergenerational or marital dynamics , and of the emotional reactions of carers , which can lead to abuse . |
| 13 | They were also unaware that less than 50 miles away from them Fleischmann and Pons — who were also ignorant of these historical works and of the parallel developments at BYU — were beginning to muse about creating hydrogen fusion with the aid of palladium in a test tube . |
| 14 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |
| 15 | The green of the spring grass and of the new leaves upon the trees was so intense that even riding through it for hours could not dim John 's sense of wonder . |
| 16 | Representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and of the two co-chairs of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia ( PICC ) , France and Indonesia , met in Beijing on July 17-18 . |
| 17 | I am much indebted to the Commission staff , in particular to Mr Collin Bowen , for allowing me to show plans in advance of publication of this , and of the other sites in the county . |
| 18 | What can the British Government do , both bilaterally and in the European Community , to ensure that the national rights of the Albanians and of the other nations in Yugoslavia are fully taken into account in the whole bloody mess ? |
| 19 | In partnership , which is ‘ the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit ’ , every partner is an agent of the firm and of the other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership . |
| 20 | Even today , the toll of addictive disease is still terrible yet many of those who die were aware of the 12 Steps and of the other recommendations of the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 21 | This general rule holds good except in the case of degrees including English , and of the joint degrees in modern languages and business studies , where particularly heavy pressure on places means that it may not always be possible to make offers even to applicants who possess grades above the minimum . |
| 22 | Pupils need to be made aware of the subtler uses of language , and of the appropriate uses of figures of speech . |
| 23 | And we know him as self-centred , selfish and idle , yet one of the shrewdest politicians , but without a constructive idea in his head and with an amazing ignorance of Indian and foreign affairs and of the real values of political life . |
| 24 | It involves at one and the same time our understanding of the nature of God , of the nature of humanity , and of the real depths of the life and unity of the universal Church . |
| 25 | These were the inevitable outcome of the random selections of genetic processes , and of the varying stages of development of various races . |
| 26 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 27 | Even the most comprehensive understanding of the ecology and of the prevailing modes of production will tell us very little that is sociologically interesting about the human society that is under observation . |
| 28 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
| 29 | But for the initiative of General Morillon and his transplanted European NATO staff , and of the individual units in UNPROFOR and various aid agencies , the whole operation would be hopelessly bogged down . |
| 30 | Jacobsen aims to reconstruct this debate in the wider context of the development of Carolingian church architecture and of the political debates in the turbulent age between 814 and 840 . |