Example sentences of "[conj] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters are often a hoped-for source of descriptions of events or of personal feelings about certain things ; and one source of written information which , though not in letter form but not wholly dissimilar , can be useful for the researcher , is the description written by children or young people of events in which they have taken part , or about given social situations . |
| 2 | Very often the last journeys of these beloved objects were accomplished to the tune of distressing protests , or of heart-rending pleas for clemency . |
| 3 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 4 | Are there any cases of formal and structural repetition ( anaphora , parallelism , etc ) or of mirror-image patterns ( chiasmus ) ? |
| 5 | It does not appear as the arena of significant events , of accidental developments which can nevertheless have the most far-reaching consequences , of puzzling loose ends , or of real contradictions and inexplicabilities . |
| 6 | All was left ‘ to the working of chance or of economic forces … |
| 7 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 8 | They are also an invitation to those who exercise political power to reflect on the nature of man and of human society and in the enactment of laws to eschew the often brilliant attractions of pragmatism , of relativism or of short-term solutions in favour of lasting concern for the common good of all . |
| 9 | A small gallery may have space to show work in only one medium ; this may have a distorting effect on the activity of the group as a whole or of versatile individuals . |
| 10 | The very short pulse length of FELs is also useful in studying time-dependent behaviour , such as the dynamics of adsorption and desorption processes , or of catalysed reactions . |
| 11 | or of desperate flights ? |
| 12 | The seventh text is a further condemnation , this time relating to war : ‘ any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself . |
| 13 | This reform , though of crucial importance in countering the current distortion in the job market towards part-time employment , does nothing to help eradicate the high marginal rates of tax faced by people leaving unemployment and gaining work , or of low-paid workers striving to gain real increases in their net take home pay . |
| 14 | This can be on-line or off-line recognition of hand-printed characters , or of machine-printed characters using optical character recognition . |
| 15 | Whether this is through the study , viewing or performance of whole plays or of selected poems or scenes should be entirely at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 16 | You should have a degree in Chemistry , Biology or a related discipline , with 1–2 years post-qualification experience in an analytical laboratory or of environmental surveys , and be familiar with the use of computer systems or automatic instrumentation . |
| 17 | There are no reports in the authorised press of anti-regime demonstrations , or of political arrests or trials . |
| 18 | We are not speaking of children or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood . |
| 19 | The secretion of amylase , however , was normal or less severely impaired than the secretion of lipase or of proteolytic enzymes in pancreatic disease in a number of other studies . |
| 20 | The substitution of citizenship for domicile in cases like that mentioned , after the manner of the law of some foreign countries , even if desirable on general grounds , would not solve the questions which arise when the laws of different parts of the same national territory , e.g. of England and Scotland , or of two states of the United States of America , come into competition . |
| 21 | Huge grants of land to the church became rarer ( but so did the chances of resuming what had once been granted ) ; from the middle of the century , gifts were more likely to be of consuetudines from ecclesiastical lands or of other tolls and dues . |
| 22 | She took no account of the problems with his bowels or of other difficulties in the anal region or of his depressions . |
| 23 | We shall distinguish attributions as external when made by members of the dominant society to the deeds of members of the microsociety , and as internal when attributions are made by members to deeds of their own or of other members of the microsociety to which they belong . |
| 24 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 25 | It is only recently , however , that there has been widespread realization of the implications for the study either of turbulence or of other systems . ) |
| 26 | Within the article there is no definition of what comprises dominance in terms either of market share or of other criteria . |
| 27 | In the laboratory , this occurs if there is a shortage of the vitamin biotin , or of other nutrients . |
| 28 | The prevalence of commodity and price over structural policy in the CAP , and the distortions introduced by the mechanics of agro-monetary compensation have favoured northern and central European agricultural producers , particularly those in the richer farming areas , while those of the poorer Mediterranean regions or of other DRAs like the Highlands of Scotland have been neglected . |
| 29 | In fact , Thomas 's evidence became more ambiguous and confusing as the questioning went on , and taken with that of other witnesses , such as Fred Morton of Fellows , Morton and Clayton , it becomes clear that there were no realistic expectations of improvement of canal traffic , either in the form of coal or of other minerals with or without substantial reconstruction of the canal system . |
| 30 | All items must be determined on a prudent basis and should err on the side of caution and in particular : ( a ) Revenue and profits must not be anticipated , but should be recognised by inclusion in the profit and loss account only when realised in the form of cash or of other assets , the ultimate realisation of which can be assessed with reasonable certainty . |