Example sentences of "[conj] of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no evidence that Mrs. Steed was ever informed either by Mr. Steed or by Mrs. Hammond of this power of attorney or of her power to sell the property . |
| 2 | Such an argument , in implying that the problem is simply a question of the lack of history or of its presence , as if history were some undifferentiated entity that could just be added or taken away , stepped into or got out of , skates over the fact that the real question has always focused on the much more difficult issue of what kind of history , and of what status can be accorded to historical thought . |
| 3 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 4 | A party is regarded as acquiring control if it has the possibility of exercising " decisive influence " on another party in particular by ownership or the right to use all or part of the assets of the other party , or rights which confer decisive influence on the composition , voting or decisions of the other party 's board of directors or of its shareholders ' meetings . |
| 5 | And enjoys a perfect night 's sleep — deep , clear , and refreshing , like gliding down through sunlit water on a hot day ; such a perfect night 's sleep that he is entirely unconscious of how much he is enjoying it , or of its depth , clarity , and refreshingness , or its resemblance to gliding through sunlit water on a hot day ; so perfect that from time to time he half wakes , just enough to become conscious of how unconscious of everything he is . |
| 6 | Doctors with an interest in food intolerance take a different view — that the psychological problems , where they exist , are largely a result of the illness , or of its rejection by the medical profession , or a mixture of the two . |
| 7 | If an author is unaware of another 's work , or of its relevance , it will not be cited . |
| 8 | ( 8 ) If shares in the target are proposed to be sold to the bidder by a director ( including a shadow director ) of the bidder , or of its parent company , or by a person connected with that director ( as defined in CA 1985 , s346 ) and the value of the shares is not less than £2,000 but ( subject to that ) exceeds £100,000 or 10 per cent of the bidder 's asset value , then the arrangement must not be entered into unless it is first approved by an ordinary resolution of the bidder or , as the case may be , its parent company in general meeting ( CA 1985 , s320 ) . |
| 9 | And we must not discount those who became converts to the new religion , whether on account of the superiority of its miracles — especially its apparently superior powers of healing — or of its doctrine or the example of those who taught it . |
| 10 | Little is known however of the precise importance of housing within inheritance as a whole , the social characteristics of the beneficiaries , the uses to which housing inheritance is put , or of its impact on the housing market . |
| 11 | So one killing , mystically interpreted either as the result of witchcraft , or of its antithesis vengeance-magic , cancels another and the slate is wiped clean . |
| 12 | 14.2 [ Where the Purchaser is a natural person ] [ and if and to the extent that s 2(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 applies to the Order , ] nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate or be construed to operate so as to exclude or restrict the liability of the Seller for death or personal injury caused [ to the Purchaser ] by reason of the negligence of the Seller or of its servants , employees or agents . |
| 13 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 14 | There are little data on the nutrition of abyssal ophiuroids ( Litvinova & Sokolova 1971 , Litvinova , 1980 ) or of their predators or parasites . |
| 15 | However if as a consequence , of a panel recommendation or of their decision on a panel recommendation , the County Council decide to modify the deposited structure plan , there would of course at that stage have to be a public planning enquiry . |
| 16 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 17 | Their perceptual distinguishability , alone , is no proof either of their actual existence or of their distinguishability per se . |
| 18 | No explanation of the documents or of their effect was given to Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 19 | ( b ) We accept responsibility for death , bodily injury or illness caused to your or others named on your booking form by the negligent act or omission of our employees , agents , suppliers or sub-contractors or of their employees or agent acting within the course or scope of their employment ( other than that of air , sea and land carriers performing any domestic internal or international carriage whatsoever where we limit our liability to that provided for by the relevant international conventions in respect of such carriage ) . |
| 20 | Four episodes seem to have attracted the attention of the artists — or of their patrons . |
| 21 | It is to include the date of removal of goods or of their arrival , a description of the goods sufficient to identify them , the value or consideration involved and , if the goods are subject to a process , then a description and value of the process . |
| 22 | But no serious systematic analysis has ever been made of the recruits , or of their careers as policemen . |
| 23 | A sizable minority , however , had experienced some degree of negative discrimination as a result either of work structures or of their colleagues ' attitudes and lack of understanding . |
| 24 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 25 | But I had no notion of time — or of my mother 's needs I felt only that I was being abandoned . |
| 26 | Any report which demands more than a full day of your time , or of your subordinates ' , should have written terms of reference . |
| 27 | In 1895 at the beginning of his work Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre Georg Cantor * made the following definition : By a set we understand any collection M of definite , distinct objects m of our perception or of our thought ( which will be called the elements of M ) into a whole . |
| 28 | That is not in the interests of this country , or of our partners in Europe . |
| 29 | That was not , however , the end of his ambition or of his thoughts on style : there is an elvish streak too in the poetry of The Lord of the Rings , signalled in complete contrast by barely-precedented intricacies of line and stanza . |
| 30 | When a twelfth-century knight rode into a tournament or into battle he hoped to be worthy either of his lineage or of his lady ; earlier he had thought only of his ancestors . |