Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three poppadams , ’ he said , ‘ and a little piece of mango chutney ! ’ |
| 2 | He helped himself to a glass of mango juice before he replied . |
| 3 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 4 | More like the diabolical Guy , Virginia thought sourly , going distractedly into the kitchen and pouring herself a glass of mango juice . |
| 5 | Three carriers bottle of whisky bottle of wine . |
| 6 | And three carrier bags bottle of whisky bottle of wine . |
| 7 | A contributory factor to the muddled thinking on excise duty on whisky has been the discrimination in favour of imported wine , where increased consumption has been shown to cut away at the base of whisky consumption . |
| 8 | He had left as soon as he could , leaving Joe to consume half a bottle of whisky whole he raced through the backstreets , slowing to a walk only when he spotted someone approaching . |
| 9 | Part of the process of whisky production includes converting the starch in the grain to sugar so that fermentation and ultimately distillation can take place . |
| 10 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
| 11 | The afternoon stretches on and on , defying the logic of watch time . |
| 12 | Every one per cent change of moisture content may cause about a half per cent shrinkage or swelling . |
| 13 | Work is beginning on a geotechnical database , extending the current holding of shear-strength measurements to include values of moisture content , liquid limit and a variety of further data . |
| 14 | They comment that the NIR , though a good indicator of moisture stress , is a relatively poor indicator of blight in this crop compared with other wavelengths . |
| 15 | Utility room with washing machine , tumble dryer and sink produce large quantities of moisture vapour |
| 16 | My design of moisture meter , writes A. Hezzlewood of Endon , has been made , tried and tested and works very well . |
| 17 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |
| 18 | Capillary suction , together with the force of gravity , therefore influence both the movement and distribution of water in soil and rock , and the interaction of these two factors gives rise to four zones of moisture storage ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 19 | The reason is not hard to understand : hot dry weather puts great strain on the continuity of moisture supply at root level , and as a result the plants slow , the foliage flags , and in the wet dew the fungus runs like mad . |
| 20 | Transient ischaemia , often with plaque rupture and formation of platelet fibrin thrombi , distal embolisation , and possibly local vasoconstriction may serve as a primary cause of cardiac arrest or may modulate a fixed arrhythmogenic substrate . |
| 21 | Further attempts to estimate platelet function in vivo have involved isotopic labelling of platelets and measurement of platelet survival and assessments of platelet aggregation in whole blood . |
| 22 | There was no evidence of platelet contamination in the lamina propria mononuclear cell or epithelial cell preparations . |
| 23 | Not all α-granules may respond in the same way to secretory stimuli ; for example , Zucker et al ( 1979 ) , who found that over 80 per cent of platelet factor VIII-related antigen was present in the α-granules could only demonstrate the release of 30 per cent of this in response to stimulation with collagen . |
| 24 | Defreyn et al ( 1981 ) have demonstrated a deficiency of thromboxane formation and platelet aggregation in platelets from a patient with a familial bleeding tendency , thus emphasizing the importance of thromboxane production in the physiology of platelet function . |
| 25 | For instance , there is no absolutely satisfactory test of platelet function . |
| 26 | However , there is no doubt that the development of the turbidometric method for the study of platelet aggregation in vitro ( Born , 1962 ) gave tremendous impetus to the study of platelet function . |
| 27 | In addition to problems intrinsic to the methodology of platelet function , problems also arise from the diabetic groups studied . |
| 28 | Many of the early studies of platelet function in diabetic subjects failed to take into account other factors known to influence platelet function , particularly the presence or absence of diabetic vascular complications . |
| 29 | Early studies of platelet function in diabetes used in vitro tests of platelet adhesion . |
| 30 | These cells may be important modulators of platelet function in vivo through their ability to take up adenine nucleotides and synthesize and release regulatory prostaglandins ( Roos & Pfleger , 1972 ; Blackwell et al , 1978 ) . |