Example sentences of "and of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campaign was disfigured by Conservative exploitation of the forged Zinoviev letter and of the Bolshevik issue generally . |
| 2 | They have an inadequate conceptualisation of the relations between states and people and of the emotional significance of nation states . |
| 3 | Yet over and over again , one finds that the application to problems in old age has to be made , that prevailing attitudes have discouraged appropriate and sensitive appraisal of the intergenerational or marital dynamics , and of the emotional reactions of carers , which can lead to abuse . |
| 4 | Often a new staff member will already be a participant of several Highlander workshops and as such will already be familiar with the make-up of grassroots community groups , and of the experience-related learning approach of Highlander 's programs . |
| 5 | They were also unaware that less than 50 miles away from them Fleischmann and Pons — who were also ignorant of these historical works and of the parallel developments at BYU — were beginning to muse about creating hydrogen fusion with the aid of palladium in a test tube . |
| 6 | Thus the poverty of older women is a function both of lifelong comparatively low access to resources ( including the non-participation of some in the resource-generating potential of joint households via marriage ) ; and of the restricted access to resources which is imposed by retirement and the assumptions about the level of state pensions which are allied to it . |
| 7 | The Minister will be aware of the valuable contribution that is made by members of the Somali community in this country and of the tremendous work that is done on their behalf by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) . |
| 8 | For example , closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat . |
| 9 | We also spoke of the encouraging future for South African cricket following recent changes in that long-isolated country , and of the good work being done by Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete in uniting South African cricket at last , enabling former boycotters like myself to testify that the time had at last come to re-admit South African cricket to the international arena . |
| 10 | Style , manner , sensitivity , humour , trust — all these remain undefined but essential parts both of good teaching and of the good management of public relations . |
| 11 | The previously consultative Federation Council was upgraded to an executive body , comprising the Presidents of the Union Republics and of the Autonomous Republics , and responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments . |
| 12 | Of these L. terrestris , A. longa , and A. nocturna are deep burrowers and of the greatest significance in maintaining soil structure . |
| 13 | This is true whether the loss is small and relatively trivial or if total and of the greatest importance , such as losing through death someone we are deeply attached to . |
| 14 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 15 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |
| 16 | The corporation was self-elected and of the weakest kind . |
| 17 | Legal aspects and insurance : the role of The Engineering Council and of the professional Institutions ; relevant Codes ; legal responsibilities of employers and engineers ; relevant legislation ( e.g. the Health and Safety at Work Act , Employers ' Liability and Consumer Protection Acts ) . |
| 18 | These people have to have an objective understanding of both culture bases and of the professional implications involved . |
| 19 | She was so aware of his hard body , and of the undeniable sex appeal of those jeans and that white shirt , that she deliberately did not look at him , staring fixedly ahead while noting every detail of him as though it was being burned into her brain . |
| 20 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 21 | The authority of government therefore is limited ; and this can be expressed by saying that certain rights of the individual and of the private association are safeguarded . |
| 22 | He spoke of the different types and causes of this illness and of the painstaking work of the research team trying to find new ways of treatment . |
| 23 | The semi-official Al-Ahram newspaper on Aug. 1 reported 300 recent arrests in the Qenah region of Upper Egypt and the arrest of 20 alleged supporters of Islamic groups in Alexandria on July 31 , including " three leading officials " of the Sudanese National Islamic Front and of the Islamic Movement in Jordan . |
| 24 | Is he aware that the effect of the special car tax and of the vicious recession in the United Kingdom and the USA has led to the sacking of more than one third of Jaguar car workers this year ? |
| 25 | A protracted investigation into fraud at the Banco Ambrosiano came to a close on April 16 when Carlo De Benedetti , president of Olivetti and of the holding company CIR ( Compagnie Industriali Riunite ) , was sentenced to six years and four months in prison . |
| 26 | Such a role , which inevitably involves the dollar 's use as a reserve currency , is the product of US industrial and financial power , and was hardly eroded by the end of dollar convertibility and of the fixed exchange rate system . |
| 27 | The green of the spring grass and of the new leaves upon the trees was so intense that even riding through it for hours could not dim John 's sense of wonder . |
| 28 | The contrast may therefore serve to illustrate one major merit of Brooks 's criticism and of the New Criticism in general : their use of ideas such as irony may seem exaggerated and confusing , but it makes the important point that the meaning of poetry , though possibly analyzable , can not be expressed properly in the form of a conventional prosaic statement . |
| 29 | Regarding themselves as kingmakers , Godwine and his sons strove repeatedly to maintain an ‘ English ’ identity , free both of too much Danish interruption and of the new factor in political life , the influence of the Duchy of Normandy . |
| 30 | So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds . |