Example sentences of "and [adv] of the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even between the troubled third to fifth centuries AD , archaeological discoveries reveal that the quality of the school 's production did not falter , despite the decline of civic life and eventually of the plastic arts .
2 One of the purposes of the Society , and so of the Journal , is to be a custodian of the history of the BCR .
3 The failure of the Liberal party to save the News Chronicle , and perhaps of the TUC and Labour Party to save the Daily Herald or to originate a paper of their own , only confirmed the lack of financial power which political institutions exercised .
4 The colonists of Elephantine in Egypt combined observance of the Passover and perhaps of the Sabbath with a devotion to Eshembethel and Anathbethel which my late colleague and friend Umberto Cassuto was unable to explain away .
5 The sub-pubic angle was rounded and somewhat of the order of 90 degrees .
6 On this ground , Ritschl was critical of much previous theology , and especially of the way the doctrine of the person of Christ had developed in the early centuries .
7 This indignation is also accompanied by a contempt for the ‘ ignorant ’ protectionist who , many farmers allege , has no knowledge or understanding of modern agriculture , and especially of the economics of food production .
8 Many of them , beginning principally with the Production Designer , Raymond Cusick , in whose hands rest the visual look of the story , from the smallest prop to the biggest backdrop , and especially of the design and handling of the Daleks themselves .
9 Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc .
10 In order to do justice to the Jesus of history , one must effectively divest oneself of preconceptions — and especially of the preconceptions fostered by subsequent tradition .
11 Thus it seems that following the early manifestations of the id and its component sexual and aggressive drives in early childhood , from about the age of seven until the age of puberty a period of relative quiescence and control of the id sets in , associated with the development of the ego and especially of the superego .
12 Leaving aside the moral issue , it is obviously desirable that schools should foster awareness of the physical risks of sexual activity , and especially of the danger of contracting a sexually transmitted disease .
13 He claims that after his departure no one seems to have made a serious effort to keep workers informed on the dangers of the process , and especially of the need to cool it .
14 Bagehot argued that " the relation of Parliament , and especially of the House of Commons , to the executive government is the specific peculiarity of our Constitution " , and he made the point that " the efficient secret of the English constitution may be described as the close union , the nearly complete fusion , of the executive and legislative powers " .
15 As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego .
16 There is , apparently , no question of BAe 's bizjets business being sold in total to another manufacturer , and regardless of the nationality of any partner , the company does not envisage manufacture of the BAe 800 and 1000 , or future models , being moved from the present production site at Chester .
17 At the same time , and regardless of the lack of other than financial support from the Authority , certain schools were tirelessly and effectively tackling the needs of these children in the comprehensive way required .
18 As a result there can be no review of the decisions of the Tribunal , regardless of the merits and substance of the decision and regardless of the procedure by which it is reached .
19 This was very familiar to those who had worked with Peter before ; he said it before every production , regardless of how complex or simple it was , and regardless of the length of rehearsal allocated .
20 And regardless of the business methods you use ? ’
21 Stewart and Tait were more aware of the degradation of energy , moral as well as physical , and thus of the impermanence of the world .
22 But this , of course , does not yield explanations of class strategies , and thus of the class struggle , which are in line with Poulantzas ' theoretical principles .
23 A comparison of Sidonius and Avitus reveals something of the continuities and discontinuities of the late fifth and early sixth centuries , and thus of the period which saw the transformation of the barbarian settlements into fully fledged kingdoms .
24 We believe that this is important because a study of police forces and the way in which they make decisions is essential to an understanding of the role of the law and rights and thus of the distribution of power in societies .
25 The reason for this , he argues , is that the older the average age of women at marriage the greater the equality between the sexes , the greater the commitment to feminism , and the smaller the age-difference between husband and wife : ‘ Cultural take-off brings about the disappearance of the child-woman and thus of the child-wife ’ ( p. 17 ) .
26 The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna .
27 The third and best of the Rabbitte family trilogy that began with The Commitments is an essential read for anyone with fond memories of Italia ‘ 90 .
28 In these he criticizes severely his brother 's régime as ‘ arbitrary despotism ’ and accuses Joseph of wishing to ‘ dispose despotically and capriciously of the lands , persons and goods of his subjects ’ .
29 The person to be interviewed should be given some indication of the topic and possibly of the kinds of questions they might be asked but it is important that there should not be any rehearsal of the interview as they will then lose their spontaneity .
30 That 's what they called Sean Walsh , who seemed to have become paler , thinner and harder of the eye since his arrival .
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