Example sentences of "[noun pl] and of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is central alike to a study of the arts and of such institutions as the monarchy and Parliament . |
| 2 | This makes the study of human beings different from that of animals and of inanimate objects . |
| 3 | Hence , the abolition of the state , of representative institutions , of parties and of all loyalties which derive from acts of political will and reason rather than natural kinship . |
| 4 | The proportion of female members of political parties and of local soviets in these republics is considerably lower than it is elsewhere in the former USSR ( although in 1988 , ironically , the first woman regional party first secretary for many years was appointed in Uzbekistan ) . |
| 5 | There was some curtailment of prisoners ' activities , a reduction in the number of outside working parties and of educational classes . |
| 6 | In this section we explore some of the implications of input output relationships and of different stages of production . |
| 7 | The coastal geomorphologist therefore focused upon the processes that control shoreline equilibrium and the significance of long-shore currents and sediment transport , of wave activity in relation to the swash , nearshore and offshore zones , and to the less-studied influence of tides and of impulsive events such as tsunamis . |
| 8 | Each entry in R is a pair ( I , J ) of a point 's image coordinates on the TV pictures and of joint settings which take the gripper to this point . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend referred to the increase in the incomes of pensioners as a result of savings and of occupational pensions . |
| 10 | However , the hierarchies of hens and of various primates share many features in common . |
| 11 | These factors include the suitability of the agreement for domestic enforcement , the availability of suitable domestic remedies and of appropriate alternatives , the purposes of the treaty itself , the intentions of its drafters , and the immediate and long-term social consequences ( presumably national and international ) of allowing direct enforcement . |
| 12 | This scheme differs from the Protogeometric in a reduction of the black areas and of concentric circles and semicircles , and in a careful selection of the rectilinear motives and the ordering of them to cover the pot with a skin of graded zones which emphasise its shape . |
| 13 | It is the creation of a ‘ standard ’ enshrined in a ‘ god ’ that can be accepted by people from all countries and of all races that is utterly vital . |
| 14 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 15 | There is some justification for this in terms both of spatial layout of settlements and of cultural conceptions . |
| 16 | The wealth of Bishops , the problems of the Biblical texts and of other religions , and the morality of both the Old and the New Testaments ( arbitrary , and socially unprogressive ) were more important factors in the painful losses of faith which Victorians underwent . |
| 17 | He had missed his church very much indeed , but our Vicar and the Curate had been constant visitors , and we were both of us upheld by the knowledge of their prayers and of many friends at St Peter 's . |
| 18 | Reliable results of organic analyses and of several types of isotopic determinations require the utmost in sample cleanliness . |
| 19 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 20 | Parents have the means of satisfying and frustrating the child 's wishes , of gradually checking a tendency to monopolize their lives and of encouraging steps towards self-reliance . |
| 21 | A mortgage of debts and of equitable interests in personalty can be made in the form of a conveyance by the mortgagor to the mortgagee with a proviso for redemption . |
| 22 | Direct broadcasting by satellite ( DBS ) was a long time coming ; but well before its arrival in Europe in 1989 the image of DBS and the reality of low- , medium- and high-powered satellites and of satellite-to-cable systems had already had a profound impact on broadcasting policy . |
| 23 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 24 | It had now cast its net more widely over the British universities for the most brilliant mathematicians , physicists and chess-players it could find ; and some from other disciplines and of diverse talents had been trawled . |
| 25 | The research will use statistical analysis to disentangle the impact of ‘ urban-rural shift ’ from the impact of urban policies and of regional policies in conditions where all three are influencing the major cities simultaneously . |
| 26 | Electronic calculators can be produced at such a low cost that manufacturers of slide rules and of electro-mechanical calculators have completely lost their markets . |
| 27 | The performance of the North West and North Wales was lamentable and a repeat of last year 's comments of being held back by plant breakdowns , low sales , a series of problem contracts and of bad debts does not explain the situation . |
| 28 | I have already said that the success of a Government 's defence policies depends on the conviction that those policies and their spokesmen carry in the eyes both of prospective opponents and of present friends . |
| 29 | The acquisition of Templar estates and of alien priories likewise enlarged the openings for royal clerks . |
| 30 | In an ivory sphinx from Perachora the oriental creature is given a head of a distinctive style found in Greece at this time in works on many scales and of many materials . |