Example sentences of "[coord] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A careful consideration of the nature of virtues , or of the lives of the saints and apostles may help , as will meditation on the Passion and Mary , whose virtues enabled Christ to be born and make manifest the wisdom and goodness of God .
2 This is so notwithstanding any resolution of the creditors ' committee or of the creditors to the contrary ( r 6.148(2) ) .
3 A one-inch ( 2.5cm ) square of sandpaper ( rough side out ) or of flannel glued to the corners of the picture or of the cutouts to be displayed is sufficient to keep the picture on the board .
4 Secondly , is it right that relief should be refused because the court disapproves of the applicant personally or of the motives behind the bringing of the application ?
5 Article 1 of the 1896 Convention provided for service at the request of officers of the ministère public or of the courts of a Contracting State addressed to the competent authority in the state of destination ; the diplomatic channel was to be used for communication from country to country unless direct communication between the relevant authorities of the two states was allowed by bilateral agreement .
6 It is this which establishes the control of the people over their political leaders or of the shareholders over their directors .
7 But there was no written record of his life or death , or of the reasons for his resistance ; and there was no one in the community who still remembered him .
8 He describes as ‘ ominous ’ any ‘ suggestion that , out of ‘ respect ’ for the law we should refrain from any forthright criticism either of particular laws , or of the institutions of law enforcement or the governmental process by which the laws are made . ’
9 ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’
10 It was held that all the requirements of section 2 of the Factors Act were complied with including the requirement that the mercantile agent be in possession of goods or of the documents of title with the consent of ‘ the owner . ’
11 ‘ Where a person , having sold goods , continues , or is , in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to the goods , the delivery or transfer by that person , or by a mercantile agent acting for him , of the goods or documents of title under any sale , pledge , or other disposition thereof , or under any agreement for sale , pledge or other disposition thereof , to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale , shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same . ’
12 I do not intend here to give any details of the substances present , or of the kinds of reaction which occur .
13 In general this appears to be a function of the kind of sectors in which they are working , or of the kinds of occupations which they have .
14 Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’
15 It said : ‘ Any publication of research material , or of the results of research , or of matters arising from such material or results , is subject to the prior consent of the Secretary of State , which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld . ’
16 The approach was reactive and piecemeal , with little appreciation of traffic now as a system or of the relationships between land use and traffic generation .
17 Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read .
18 In many cases however there is , as yet , no clear understanding of the energetics of such deformations or of the mechanisms of associated structural transitions .
19 There are no reliable estimates of the past or present size of its populations , or of the rates of losses , although fishing is clearly a major cause of accidental death .
20 He found that the use of this weighting factor gave a better indicator of quality than the numbers of citations or of the numbers of papers published .
21 There was considerable confusion as to whether the relief of widows was to be considered independently of either their late husbands ' failure to provide for them , or of the needs of their children .
22 However , looking at these changes with the INSET concepts of a later date , it is interesting to note that the four major texts upon the history of curriculum change ( Bernard , 1962 ; Boyd , 1961 ; Gordon and Lawton , 1978 ; Dent , 1982 ) , whilst extensively detailing the changes which were the subject of public intention , make no mention of either the machinery whereby the new ideology was introduced to teachers nor of the effects upon teacher practice in the schools .
23 But it certainly could not be said of the master-manufacturers that theirs was the whisper of a faction , nor of the unions in their post-1832 revolutionary phase that theirs was the voice of the nation .
24 To this extent , then , the adoption of a writing system in classical Greece does not in itself provide an example of development without the cultural ‘ interference ’ that goes with diffusion , nor of the characteristics of writing independent of oral modes of communication .
25 It is not possible here to say more about the different types of trust which are commonly created at the present time , nor of the powers and duties of the trustees , nor of the methods of administration .
26 The Minister will nevertheless be aware of the real hardship this summer and of the queues at the soup kitchens on the campuses .
27 These depended , therefore , on the harvests of northern Europe — an indication of the degree to which the more ‘ modern ’ economy of the periphery was involved in a wider world and of the perils of specialization : a drop in the European demand for wine meant disaster for the marginal rabassa morta cultivators .
28 Like Brown , he struck a populist tone by attacking the " status-quo paralysis " in Washington , but combined this with a partisan attack on the Bush administration for its neglect of home affairs in general and of the interests of America 's middle class in particular .
29 The Institute strives to achieve this and , in doing so , it deserves the support of its members and of the companies to which they belong .
30 Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice .
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