Example sentences of "or 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 . |