Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 2 | Firstly , Baxter could not see how it was possible to avoid Antinomianism if it was accepted that Christ died for the actual sins of His people . |
| 3 | For the committed exponents of Nazi rule , Hitler 's public statements on the destruction of the Jews provided sanction and legitimation for their own ‘ private initiatives ’ taken against Jews , backing and support for their own involvement in the escalating criminality of the regime . |
| 4 | One of these , intriguingly , was the non-existent Board of Magistrates for the Petty Sessions of Heaton Norris : the Charity Commissioners had been rather concerned , during the drafting of the Scheme , that letters addressed to this body were never answered , but pressed on with its inclusion regardless . |
| 5 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 6 | For the first time , to anything like that extent , parents are liable for the criminal activities of juveniles . |
| 7 | Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics . |
| 8 | For the Roman ruins of Tyre , a few of the old Ottoman harbour warehouses , the little Christian streets near the port , are still there . |
| 9 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 10 | For the odd shifts of emphasis |
| 11 | Even as a match for the Tatar warriors of the Crimea , who were similarly equipped , their value declined when in the 1630s and 1640s a strong line of fortifications was built in the south . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) For the quarterly meetings of a licensing board , see s.4(1). 5.13(2) enables a hoard , if it thinks fit , to adjourn an application where there has been a failure to comply with the requirements of the Act , or where an applicant has died . |
| 13 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 14 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 15 | Here Haydn was the principal pioneer , but Mozart expanded the form , pushing it to its limits within the Classical framework he inherited , and laying the foundation for the supreme achievements of Beethoven . |
| 16 | There is a poem by his friend Philip Larkin , entitled ‘ Letter to a Friend about Girls ’ , which was never published during Larkin 's lifetime but was retrieved for the Collected Poems of 1988 . |
| 17 | It was tempting to think that he might live down there for ever , occasionally emerging to dodge through the empty quiet streets ; watching for the armed patrols of the faceless men in black . |
| 18 | Donor states are aware that by providing support for the armed forces of one superpower their territory could become a target in the military operational planning of the other superpower . |
| 19 | After the Egyptian leader , Sadat , granted the United States rights to use certain of Egyptian military facilities at the beginning of the 1980s , notably at Ras Banas on the Red Sea , Soviet writers described his ‘ preparedness to allow military bases for the armed forces of the United States of America on his territory ’ as being ‘ in violation of the basic principles of the Non-Aligned Movement ’ . |
| 20 | The Nov. 28 Bamako agreement , concluded at the end of an extraordinary ECOWAS summit , had been signed by ( i ) Charles Taylor , leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , ( ii ) Noah Bordolo , for the breakaway Independent NPFL led by Taylor 's rival , Prince Yormie Johnson , and ( iii ) Capt. Wilmot Diggs , for the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) , the relics of the army of former President Doe . |
| 21 | This was to be the legal basis for the armed detachments of workers who were supposed to confiscate surplus grain and the hoards of speculators . |
| 22 | By the early twentieth century this was undoubtedly less of a calculative relationship than Michael Anderson has described for the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 24 | For the mainstream activities of Teaching ( ‘ T ’ ) and Research ( ‘ R ’ ) the University received an increase of 5.8% , compared with an average of 9% for the English universities . |
| 25 | So much for the elementary properties of pencils . |
| 26 | The only other significant documented difference in the cash flow is a smaller than usual increase in the amount allowed for the imputed earnings of family labour , which rose by £1m to £56m . |
| 27 | Moreover , it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative . |
| 28 | The bass clef is used for the lower parts of the compass , the tenor for the higher . |
| 29 | Stone or marble was used for the lower parts of the walls , the upper being of sun-dried brick and timber . |
| 30 | With the titans of 1945 gone , the stumbling old guard of the Conservative Party finally tripped up : it was the chance for the lower orders of the middle classes to bite back . |