Example sentences of "[conj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this evidence does not necessarily imply that children will always cope with empirical and intentional explanations in the classroom , it does imply that failure to do so is likely to be due to factors other than children lacking an understanding of causality , of intentionality , or of the causal connectives . |
| 2 | Evaluation can also be directed towards the educational product the outcome of one course or of the instructional programme . |
| 3 | It is still being published , and is the longest continuous magazine about or of the deaf in Britain which still bears the same title . |
| 4 | Other nationalist movements in Europe had the character rather of independence movements directed against a dominant empire , such as that of the Habsburgs or of the Russian Tsars ; and as Seton-Watson ( 1964 ) observed , some of them — for example , those of the Slovaks and the Ukrainians — began as cultural movements resulting from the creation of a standardized literary language . |
| 5 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the hearing the committee chairman , Sir Herbert Duthie , said that it was not a trial of alternative medicine or of the provocation-neutralisation test . |
| 7 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 8 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 9 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 10 | I mean , not just a Euro-Communist or of the pinkish persuasion . |
| 11 | Results like that suggest that the young salmon learn the odour of their native stream ( or of the young salmon in it ) , and later find their way home by seeking that scent . |
| 12 | The level of youth unemployment in an area may reflect the characteristics either of the area itself ( eg the absence of expanding industry ) or of the young people who live there ( eg their educational qualifications ) , or some combination of the two . |
| 13 | Or of the heated conversation in a pub or restaurant ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is a new interest among scholars in seeking out forgotten writers whose works represent the experiences of women or of the poor . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | The excitement of the exhibition concerns the opportunity to place many works around the park 's lake where they will create an impression quite different to the context of brutal architecture of the Hayward Gallery , or of the European Patent Office in Munich and of other cities for which King has made commissions in recent years . |
| 18 | And on the other side , there are political systems ( those of empires or of the European feudal societies ) in which these factors are less important than allegiance or subordination to a particular ruler or ruling group . |
| 19 | But it 's no uncritical endorsement of any part of the socialist tradition , or of the New Model Labour Party . |
| 20 | Moreover , as used in teaching machines or books , the method gave little scope for the use of senses other than sight , or of other media , or of the fruitful interaction between students and with teachers , which is the main justification of classroom teaching . |
| 21 | No group claimed responsibility for the attack , but there was speculation that it might be the work either of a " freelance " splinter group in the Medellín drug cartel , or of the rival Cali drug cartel , since the Medellín cartel leaders themselves , and many of their followers , were loyal bullfight fans . |
| 22 | Kevin Maxwell and Trachtenberg also faced a charge of trying to defraud the Swiss Bank Corporation of $55,783,466.76 and four charges of stealing a total of nearly £37,000,000 in securities from the pension trustees of the Mirror Group or of the Maxwell-controlled AGB company . |
| 23 | It could be the result of using or working on certain materials , e.g. lead ; of labour in a harmful environment , e.g. damp , ill ventilated , fume or dust filled ; of harmful working postures ; or of the repetitive use of particular muscles or organs . |
| 24 | In particular , it is no evidence that the correct quantity or number of goods has been delivered or that the goods delivered are in good condition or of the correct quality . |
| 25 | And indeed the new landscape produced some fine dramatic compositions such as the railway viaduct over the smoking town of Stockport ; or the sight of Bradford at night from the moorland hills to the north ; or of the smoky silhouette of Nottingham on a winter evening as seen from the south-bound train on the Eastern Region line ; or the city of Sheffield in full blast on a murky morning ; even ( one thinks sometimes ) the sight of long gas-lit streets of red brick working-class houses in a Victorian town with not a tree or a bush in sight : only the lamps shining on pavements blanched by the autumn evening wind . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the case of simple reproduction there is no growth , either of means of production or of the total social product . |
| 28 | These are ( 1 ) anti-imperialism ( in effect , an anti-US stance ) : increasingly , as Washington insists on defining indigenous anti-US sentiment within the region in terms of ‘ Communist subversion ’ , Marxism comes to be regarded as the natural channel for such feelings ; ( 2 ) an acceptance of the Marxist premise of ‘ the exploitation of man by man ’ ; and ( 3 ) a refusal to accept the existing economic order , or to be bound by conventional economic remedies for Latin America 's development problems ( either of the orthodox ‘ monetarist ’ variety which the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is trying to introduce into most major Latin American countries , or of the moderate reform-and-investment strategies pursued by Christian Democratic groups , for example in Chile from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 29 | Of a worship service in which no mention was made of Christ , the bible was not read , and no reference made to God 's dealings with the people of Israel or of the early church , we might well say that it was theistic ( if mention was made of God ) , but it could not rightly be called Christian . |
| 30 | 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 . |