Example sentences of "and [adv] of the " 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 It is the originator of the Dutch Belted in the USA ( which is possibly more typical of the original breed ) and perhaps of the old sheeted cattle of the Broadlands estate in England , now extinct .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The sub-pubic angle was rounded and somewhat of the order of 90 degrees .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It will be illuminating and helpful to present the Church ‘ in the under-developed countries as the Church of all , and especially of the poor ’ .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 " .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 To the surprise of many , and regardless of the approaching Easter weekend , a string of real-life cash-in-hand buyers appeared .
19 In spite of the continuing scepticism and regardless of the clinical faults of the new drugs , many attempts were made to find out how and where in the brain they worked .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 And regardless of the business methods you use ? ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Matins has almost wholly disappeared and its substitute in Anglican worship is often some kind of family service , common also in the Free Churches , and generally of the ‘ hymn-sandwich ’ variety .
26 In principle , hermeneutics is a branch of theology , the study in the Bible and elsewhere of the hidden significance of outward manifestations .
27 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 .
28 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 ) .
29 Stewart and Tait were more aware of the degradation of energy , moral as well as physical , and thus of the impermanence of the world .
30 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 .
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