Example sentences of "and [adv] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , if we were able to give a more definite connotation to the concepts of ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ , it would even be possible to maintain the libido is invariably and necessarily of a masculine nature , whether it occurs in men or in women .
2 The words also speak of the joy and fun of friendship , of looking into a pool of knowledge , of drinking and lastly of a tender farewell .
3 To the surprise of many , and regardless of the approaching Easter weekend , a string of real-life cash-in-hand buyers appeared .
4 ( b ) Transfer of work A client is properly regarded as a client of the firm and not of the individual solicitor unless there is some personal , often family , connection between the two .
5 Such a grant or renewal is a purpose under the Act of 1963 or the Act of 1968 and not of the 1976 Act .
6 This appears to envisage rules which require the disclosure of only the arrangements for the payment of commission and not of the actual amount .
7 Second-class citizen ! goes up in neon lights when those who use the pronunciation of the streets and not of the written word open their mouths .
8 Will my hon. Friend speculate on the effect on jobs in the electronics industry in my constituency and elsewhere of a Labour party proposal to increase value added tax on luxury items to 25 per cent ?
9 In principle , hermeneutics is a branch of theology , the study in the Bible and elsewhere of the hidden significance of outward manifestations .
10 It might be thought that such social constraints would be likely , simply by being social , to be culturally variable , and thus of no great interest to a general ( or universal ) pragmatic theory .
11 It was a sine qua non of French participation in the EEC , and thus of the very formation of an EEC .
12 We hope to hear favourably and further of the projected enterprise , feeling sure that it would be the means of attracting still more desirable visitors to Henley . ’
13 The body armour of these creatures was constructed partly of lime and partly of a horny substance called chitin .
14 Though data are not available , it may well be that socio-economic disparities were narrower in 1974 than before as a result partly of the Contract of Employment Act , 1963 , which required employers to give their employees notice of one to four weeks according to length of service , and partly of the increased power of trade unions .
15 There is a good reason : those of childhood are or have been those of every client ( and also of every social worker ) and may be considered as common to every adult group .
16 A well-ordered civilisation demands standard basic skills of a physical kind : mobility and manipulation , and also of a mental kind : reading , writing and arithmetic .
17 The WTA was founded in 1921 at Toynbee Hall , moving later to Transport House ( at that time the headquarters of Britain 's largest trade union , the Transport Workers , and also of the Labour Party ) .
18 Certainly this is one aspect of the poetry he wrote during his marriage to Vivien , at least up to Ash-Wednesday , and also of the early poetry he wrote as a young man in Paris .
19 The relation between decreased urinary albumin excretion and changes in filtration fraction is consistent with the hypotheses of a predominant role of glomerular haemodynamic alterations in producing microalbuminuria in insulin dependent diabetes and also of the decisive role of the reduction in intraglomerular capillary pressure mediated by angiotensin I converting inhibitors in the antialbuminuric effects of these compounds .
20 Sunday Schools , er , mainly was er in best chapel tt tradition , I suppose , of er bible study and also of the social conscience of the Methodist .
21 The Department falls within the purview of the Select Committee system in the Commons and also of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration .
22 As a result of more stringent regulations on atmospheric pollution , new measures had to be taken to ensure the safety of the company 's employees and also of the surrounding environment .
23 ( In the face of growing opposition to the peace process during October the government seized the latest editions both of the weekly newspaper of the People 's Democratic Party , Al-Ahali , for criticizing the royal decree of Sept. 25 prolonging parliament 's recess until Dec. 1 and also of the Moslem Brotherhood weekly , Al-Ribat , for questioning Jordan 's participation in the conference .
24 It is also a characteristic of much of the service sector , and also of the public sector .
25 The connection of deafness with the Dukes of Devonshire persists to this day : the 11th Duke is Patron of the National Deaf Children 's Society , and also of the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby .
26 There was much criticism of the time taken up in the Commons by these devolution measures , and also of the careless drafting of two bills which were likely to produce a legal and constitutional nightmare if they ever took effect .
27 Mrs Winston Frederick Churchill Guest , née Miss Lucy Cochrane , known to all by the stylish acronym C.Z. ( ‘ See-Zee ’ ) — after her brother 's childish struggles with ‘ sister ’ — is the diamond-bright , first-water totem of old-money American high society , chatelaine of homes in Long Island , Palm Beach and Middleburg , Virginia ( and formerly of an imposing apartment at Number 1 , Sutton Place ) .
28 The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) .
29 Genetics is the study of biological variation and its inheritance , and hence of the fundamental control mechanisms of living systems .
30 In this country , and indeed throughout the world , most of the productive tasks associated with sustaining day-to-day life and happiness — namely , child-rearing , care of the sick , and household management — are undertaken outside the field of paid employment and hence of the formal economy ( Stacey 1981 ) .
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