Example sentences of "[conj] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she can stand as an example of all my attitudes or of every other encounter with the female sex . |
| 2 | On a negative note , more than a quarter of the sample were homeless or of no fixed abode on admission to one of the Westminster hospitals , and the same proportion were homeless on discharge . |
| 3 | Death of one or more joint owners or of a sole proprietor is proved by lodging a certificate of death , or a copy of such a certificate certified as a true copy by the seller 's conveyancer , with the appropriate application . |
| 4 | The most deeply spontaneous , the gut reaction , from every viewpoint except the destitute , or of a criminal ready to pay for the advantage of robbing by the risk of himself being robbed , or of the kind of anarchist who acclaims private theft as a blow to the oppressive institution of private property , is of being threatened . |
| 5 | But it is dangerous insofar as the ideology may become a substitute for the tradition — the servant become the master — because politics involves ‘ the pursuit , not of a dream , or of a general principle , but of an intimation ’ . |
| 6 | It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 : |
| 7 | Any suggestion of a re-enactment of Christ 's sacrifice or of a bodily presence in the bread and wine was now removed from the communion service . |
| 8 | Jack Hailman found that a herring gull chick will initially peck equally at a model of a herring gull adult , or of a laughing gull ( which is quite different , its head being mainly black , unlike the white herring gull ) . |
| 9 | This may not be the case in a small house fellowship , or of a small church in a face-to-face village community where everyone knows everybody else . |
| 10 | Some of these were too hard to be blown , in which case he cut with the point of a penknife or of a small knife adapted for the purpose , an oval-shaped piece of the shell out of the side , emptied the egg , and replaced the shell . ’ |
| 11 | In the case of a minor , or of a mental patient where no person is authorised to act for him by the Court of Protection , then the " next friend " must file a written undertaking ( N 235 ) , attested as would be an affidavit , to be responsible for costs ( Ord 10 , r 2(b) ) . |
| 12 | Certainly for the launch of a new brand , or of a new campaign for an old brand , there can be little doubt that an initial burst pattern offers the best chance of building awareness among the target audience . |
| 13 | The ‘ cost of capital ’ may be low enough and there may be a strong demand for the type of commodity which the investment project aims at producing , but if other competing enterprises are able to supply the same commodity or a close substitute more cheaply ( or of a higher quality ) then the project will not be ‘ commercially viable . ’ |
| 14 | Society at large is naturally uneasy with the notion that doctors — even if acting humanely — may put an end to the life of a terminally ill person , whether young or old , or of a malformed baby with no prospects of survival . |
| 15 | Most claims about markedness involve comparisons across languages ; for example , a particular word order might turn out to be much commoner , less unexpected than the alternatives in the languages of the world or of a certain language family . |
| 16 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 17 | If Midland Life is required to make any payment under the Policyholders ' Protection Act 1975 ( or any enactment amending or replacing the same or of a similar nature ) or if there is any change in the law or Inland Revenue practice affecting a Guaranteed Capital Bond the benefits provided by such a Bond may be varied by Midland Life in such manner as the Midland Life Actuary considers appropriate . |
| 18 | Biblical poetry in general is overwhelmingly composed of couplets ( or triplets , extended couplets ) , and of such couplets we could state that they are of one sort ( A is related to B ) or of a hundred , but not of three or four or five . |
| 19 | It is available smooth for spreading , or of a coarser texture for slicing when it may be heated before serving . |
| 20 | He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor . |
| 21 | Such skills and abilities are not the prerogative of a particular sort of teacher or of a particular style of teaching — nor are they to be found only in teachers who work with the youngest children in our primary schools . |
| 22 | Neither in the production of variations nor in the elimination of disadvantageous variations is there any reference to an ‘ end ’ of producing ‘ fit ’ or successful species : the probability of variations occurring , or of a particular variation occurring , is independent of the need for change to produce a better ‘ fit ’ between organism and environment , or of that variation being successful . |
| 23 | In ( c ) this ‘ basic condition ’ can be variably referred to the nature of a whole epoch , of a particular society at a particular period , or of a particular group within that society at that period . |
| 24 | The test would seem to be the likelihood or otherwise of the amenity of the objector 's property being adversely affected by the grant of any licence , or of a particular form of licence , in respect of the premises , or by the grant of a licence to a particular person . |
| 25 | Furthermore , planning applications which raise issues of major importance , or of a particular technical nature , can be ‘ called in ’ for ministerial decision . |
| 26 | How did they choose the firm ( eg the reputation of the firm , of a practice area , or of a particular lawyer ; personal association ; referrals from current or former clients , or professional agencies ) ? |
| 27 | The binary pixel information is compressed by RLL coding which can define repetitions of a single bit value , or of a repeated bit pattern . |
| 28 | is that a person who acts as a representative of another is in a conflict of interest situation if , either at the time when he accepts appointment or subsequently while he acts as a representative , there is a material interest of his own or of a third person for whom he also acts , and the pursuit or protection of that interest would create a substantial risk that he may not act in the best way to pursue or protect the interest of the person he represents . |
| 29 | ‘ 2(1) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest — ( a ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it , on behalf of himself or of a third person ; or ( b ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it ; or ( c ) ( except where the property came to him as trustee or personal representative ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs can not be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 30 | From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace . |