Example sentences of "[coord] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy shall not by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) ( a ) above , be required to cover ( a ) liability in respect of the death , arising out of and in the course of his employment , of a person in the employment of a person insured by the policy or of bodily injury sustained by such a person arising out of and in the course of his employment ; or other such matters . |
| 2 | These may be auditory or of bodily gesture , but neither the response nor the signal will lie completely outside the creature 's normal behavioural repertoire . |
| 3 | If trading is likely to be temporary or of uncertain duration ( e.g. for one summer season only ) , sole trading is perhaps the best choice . |
| 4 | Not in a spirit of pessimism on the one hand or of complacent expectation on the other , but with an optimism that is founded in the reality of our shared experience . |
| 5 | Riots , staff unrest , the malaise in the probation service and the political problems caused by the penal system are not the direct results of a high prison population or a lack of money or of decent prison buildings ( although these do contribute to the crisis ) , but result from what people believe and how they feel — from the moral reactions of people within and outside the penal system to the material situation . |
| 6 | Inevitably , nothing is memorable , or of great value . |
| 7 | Just before the publication of the Bill that became the 1988 Education Reform Act , opinion in Great Britain was evenly divided over whether control of the curriculum should be in the hands of local education authorities or of central government ; this is shown in Figure 10.4 . |
| 8 | The suffering of God is not eternal and infinite ; it is human and limited and the same kind of suffering as that of Auschwitz or of cerebral meningitis . |
| 9 | Sail camber has been formed by use of battens , either flat or of round section in sleeves from leading to trailing edge.Tensioned into compression , the battens become curved and the degree of camber is controlled by vertical stand-offs from the forward cross-spar . |
| 10 | Collection of a library of photographs of known and unfamiliar faces that can then be selected on the basis of being of a similar degree of familiarity , of similar appearance , or of similar occupation . |
| 11 | Thus , knowledge that a company is facing a financial crisis , or a take-over or contemplated take-over , or company losses , or of major diversification plans , would all appear to constitute sufficient specificity . |
| 12 | For example , it is difficult to have direct experience of the past , or of present-day life in far-off parts of the world . |
| 13 | A question which still greatly puzzles utilitarian thinkers , on which Sidgwick seems to have been the first to touch , is whether the utilitarian goal is the maximisation of total or of average welfare . |
| 14 | The issue is not so much whether or how far the sense of grievance or of legitimate right can be justified objectively but rather its potency as a force in the equation , just as an unwavering Jewish belief in the right to all Eretz Israel has proved indispensable to the achievements of Zionism . |
| 15 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 16 | Ex abundante cautela , the Act goes on to provide that ‘ no physician ’ or other who complies with the directive ‘ shall be subject to civil liability therefrom ’ or ‘ shall be guilty of any criminal act or of unprofessional conduct ’ . |
| 17 | Franco appears to have failed to grasp the broader picture of Hitler 's strategy , either because of lack of vision , or of hispanocentric insularity , or both . |
| 18 | The ratio of the consumption of wood to steel varies considerably between different countries but it is not necessarily an index of the degree of industrialization or of technological advancement . |
| 19 | It has traditionally been viewed as either leisure and pleasure , ‘ brightening-up the place ’ , or of therapeutic value . |
| 20 | There are hints of one in the story of Rahab and the spies that we have already looked at , hints of an attack mounted on the basis of inside information gathered in that dangerous night of pleasure , or of stealthy entry into the city gained by means of Rahab 's treachery . |
| 21 | Nothing moved me , and Coleridge 's line , ‘ I see , not feel , how beautiful they are ! ’ sums up my eventual attitude to all that I had ever found valuable or of emotional significance . |
| 22 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 23 | But we can then distinguish between two kinds of study : ( a ) operational studies , often not generally published , which study effects as indicators of internal policy and marketing decisions — ‘ attitude ’ surveys in market research ; studies of responses to programmes in broadcasting research ; private political polling on ‘ issues ’ ; and ( b ) critical research , in which the effects of programmes showing violence or of political broadcasting or other distinguishable kinds of production are assessed for both specific and general social effect , often in response to an expressed public concern . |
| 24 | Sociological problems are not those of economics , or of political science , or of psychology . |
| 25 | Thus , it is not a question either of military concerns or of civilian control . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is possible to speculate that the progress of GIS is not being held up by lack of technology or of suitable software but by the cost of acquiring the data necessary for the functioning of the GIS . |
| 27 | That is , there is that which is common , or of one kind , in each of the experiences of feeling a sensation , being depressed , thinking a question , taking a decision , and so on . |
| 28 | The influence of parents on their children or of one spouse on the other can be , but is by no means necessarily , much stronger than would be the case in other relationships . |
| 29 | The only possible general comment is limited to a comparison of one year with another , or of one exhibition with some comparable one . |
| 30 | The calculations by Frank and the Soviet theoreticians had dealt with the fusion of proton and deuterium or of two deuterium nuclei . |