Example sentences of "[noun] and of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons .
2 For — cutting straight through the recurring controversies about whether , because of the varieties of the arts and of the infinity of differences between different individual works , ‘ art ’ can be ‘ defined ’ — one thing , I think , is clear .
3 At the time when he became a professor , his reputation probably depended largely on his studies of the capillary circulation and of the blood cells concerned with defence against bacterial invasion .
4 This recyclying of the present is the root of consciousness and of the perception of time .
5 This provided among other things for the direct election of the President and of the legislature , the right to strike , the abolition of the death penalty and the right to private property .
6 Analysis of available Hungarian databases and of the effectiveness of primary , secondary , and tertiary preventive methods .
7 But the claims of the user organizations and of the trade unions were of declining standards and cuts in services ‘ by stealth ’ .
8 ( c ) The first operand is in the ( specified ) accumulator , the second is in a store location , and the result replaces the contents both of the original accumulator and of the store location .
9 A group of four parties — the People 's Party , the Socialist Party , Social Democracy and the Democratic Party of Slovakia — issued a statement on May 18 calling on the CPCz to withdraw voluntarily from the general election in June as an admission of the party 's responsibility for the country 's condition after 41 years of communist rule and of the party 's continued totalitarian tendencies .
10 Further development of the programme and of the role of the Community Mother is possible , though within the present structures there is a danger that it could become a mere extension of the health services , with the Community Mother as a low-waged employee , losing voluntary status , altering motivation and reducing their effectiveness as change agents , becoming as Gill Walt concludes about Community Health Workers in many countries , ‘ just another pair of hands ’ rather than the change agents they were claimed to be .
11 As you will have picked up , in my opinion fundamentalism is a dangerous enemy which has to be attacked at the level of the mind and of the heart .
12 In the middle ranks of the service , Chancery was staffed entirely with clerics ; the clerks of the Privy Seal and of the Signet were in minor orders ; offices in the Exchequer were shared between laymen and clerics .
13 It seems likely that both the concern of political parties and of the public at the activities of the BUF was totally out of all proportion to its importance and to the political challenge which it presented ; as John Stevenson and Chris Cook wrote ‘ British fascism was almost a non-starter ’ .
14 I believe that he should be more independent of the Department and of the Government of the day .
15 The responsibilities of the head of department and of the college entered into the picture .
16 What would distress me would be if Scotland were not able in such a process to express democratically her own voice and her own vision of the European future and of the future of Scotland in Europe .
17 What of the future and of the role that the profession can play in supporting the reforming nature of these bodies ' work ?
18 In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior .
19 A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper .
20 Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition .
21 Then the silence was broken by the sound of metal on metal at the far end of the Cages and of a gate being opened , followed by the heavy remorseless tread of Men 's feet .
22 Guest vocal stars were often from the States and of the sex-calibre of Frank Sinatra .
23 If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely .
24 The summons of wider groups , because matters affecting the common good were at stake , in no way diluted Innocent 's conceptions of the role of the clergy and of the laity , of bishops and of lower clergy , of kings and of lesser laymen , nor of his own position in leading the Ecclesia or " congregation of the faithful " .
25 This means , as Rodolphe Gasché observes , that ‘ the mimicry of totality and of the pretension to systematicity is an inseparable element of deconstruction , one of the very conditions of finding its foothold within the logic being deconstructed ’ .
26 ‘ They all had it in for Jonathan and they did what they could to harm him , but they were glad enough of his money , of his custom in their shops and of the work he provided . ’
27 We have got this far and ignored a lot of work regarding issues of land rent and of the nature of capital 's relation with land as part of a general accumulation process .
28 Sir Leslie Scarman spoke of the new computer-usable Statutes in Force and of the Statute Law Committee 's subcommittee on the impact of computer technology on statutory material , and looked forward to the day when lawyers will be able to search the statutes in computer-usable form , as well as relying on their traditional book material .
29 This leads to a discussion of the characteristics of the agency labour force and of the nature of the occupation and regional labour markets in which they are found .
30 Glasser thunders on : ‘ Both Lilian and Mary invested too much emotional capital in their opposition to father , whose influence naturally remained dominant , try as they might to escape ; and this imbalance distorted their view of relationships and of the world . ’
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