Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the current investigation is to show a possible binding or uptake of PT-gliadin in the enterocytes , and to compare the handling of the components between coeliac patients and controls . |
| 2 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 3 | We might expect such a recognition to be especially difficult in strong cultures , where investment of self in the work of the firm is most profound . |
| 4 | A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system . |
| 5 | As more data accumulate it may turn out that there are in fact subtle differences and that these relate to the presence or degree of sinistrality in the patient 's family or to the position of the hand during writing ( see below ) . |
| 6 | It was a tiny observation port designed to give a view in an emergency of level of water or degree of fire in the engine room beyond . |
| 7 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 8 | There have been no previous reports of the occurrence or distribution of EGF in the healthy and inflamed squamous oesophagus , although we have described the occurrence of EGF in Barrett 's mucosa . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the child hears people speaking ; like the linguist studying children 's language , children have access to a corpus or sample of language in the utterances they hear . |
| 10 | Sufferers from the family disease can no more control their addiction to " self-denial " and " caretaking " by themselves than any primary sufferer can control his or her use of the substance or behaviour of addiction in the absence of support from the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 11 | ( a ) Examples of additional enquiries ( 1 ) Is the seller aware of any development or proposals for the development or use of property in the neighbourhood which might adversely affect the property or the amenities of persons living in it ? ( 2 ) Has the property to the seller 's knowledge been affected at any time by structural , building or drainage defects , flooding , dry rot , timber infestation or rising damp ? ( 3 ) Please confirm that any damage caused to decorations by the removal of fixtures and fittings will be made good by the seller before completion . |
| 12 | Mean hearing thresholds are related mainly to the presence or absence of fluid in the middle ear . |
| 13 | The young society was not drawn to quaintness , or studiousness , or absence of mind in the outfield . |
| 14 | In patients who had undergone operation an χ 2 test was performed for the analysis of the possible association with mortality of the following variables : stage I-II v stage IV disease , histological subtype low/mixed grade or high grade , presence or absence of gastric serosal invasion , presence or absence of lymphoma in the margin of resection or contiguous extension of the lymphoma to nearby abdominal organs , or both , and tumour size over or under 10 cm . |
| 15 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
| 16 | These dilemmas involve what is given up or not done in order to care , or prioritisation of need in the family , or the sense of not caring well enough , or not doing enough to help . |
| 17 | The effects of stimulation are ‘ all-or-none ’ : either a saccade is elicited or it is n't , and its size and direction are not related to the intensity or frequency of stimulation in the colliculus . |
| 18 | Adverse meteorological conditions should not be considered the fundamental cause of smogs since high concentrations of pollution would not arise unless the general level or baseline of pollution in the urban atmosphere was relatively high anyway : there is a limit to the peak pollution value that the atmosphere can produce . |
| 19 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 20 | A number of laws , many of them based on principles of ‘ obscenity ’ , ‘ indecency ’ and ‘ offence ’ are designed to prevent the distribution or display of homosexuality in the same way as porn is constrained . |
| 21 | It has also helped to ensure that intensification of agriculture in the French LFAs has not occurred , preventing any agriculture/nature conservation conflict . |
| 22 | There is an inherent assumption in the Directive that maintenance of farming in the LFAs is necessary to prevent areas from falling into decline and becoming ‘ wildernesses ’ . |
| 23 | The qualitative variables were : sex , aetiology of cirrhosis ( alcholic or non-alcholic ) , activity of alcoholism ( active consumption at time zero , abstinence for at least one month or undetermined status ) , duration of liver disease from the initial diagnosis ( |
| 24 | The judges considered the candidate 's participation and level of achievement in the activities of the Chamber , and in Junior Chamber Scotland [ such as attending national conferences and national training days ] , together with the candidate 's potential for further advancement within the organisation . |
| 25 | And the means by which it has done so provide another example of the fascination and complexity of adaptation in the natural world . |
| 26 | Stateless societies are for the most part small tribal societies , without any complex division of labour and economically poor , but some features of their political systems may perhaps also be found in other types of society , especially in village communities such as those of medieval Germany , or of India ( where they were once described as ‘ little republics ’ ) , although in these instances there is already some degree of subordination to a state , however remote , and some element of stratification and inequality of power in the local community itself . |
| 27 | The policy agenda of the Conservative administration after 1979 reasserted the importance of community care and a series of initiatives were undertaken involving the transfer of finance from health to social care , as a means of enhancing the development and co-ordination of care in the community . |
| 28 | The salience of the Fuji-Xerox exemplar was reinforced by the close parallels between the trajectory of Fuji-Xerox and the Far Eastern copier market and RX and European markets , including the maturation and intensification of competition in the mid-1970s . |
| 29 | Thus it includes provisions for allowing the emergence of new institutions , one of which is the new open university aimed at providing extramural education for particular groups in Greek society and the foundation of a centre for the Greek language to coordinate the maintenance and dissemination of Greek in the European environment . |
| 30 | A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years . |