Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] or [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of some families harbour strains of H pylori with the same DNA fingerprint ( family K , three isolates ; family M , two isolates ) ; some harbour subtypes or strains with similar DNA fingerpritns ( family H , two isolates ) ; and some harbour different strains ( family B , three isolates ; family M , one isolate ) . |
| 2 | Residents have been tied to chairs and beds , made to sit in restraining chairs , zipped into cocoon sleeping bags or put into high cot-sided beds which restrict night movement . |
| 3 | Of the other dimensions , purity , in Bentham 's special sense , means the chance of a pleasure not leading to pains , or a pain not leading to pleasures , while the fecundity is the extent to which a pleasure breeds or leads to other pleasures or a pain to other pains . |
| 4 | The end oxidation product , H 2 SO 4 , forms new sulphate particles or condenses on pre-existing particles . |
| 5 | A symptom of a company which has expanded too fast in terms of expensive machinery , clung to its principles of manufacturing , storing , distributing and retailing entirely through its own central management , without expanding its product lines or investing in sufficient skilled training . |
| 6 | Others are smuggled abroad for circuses or tourist entertainments or sold for medical research : there are 1,500 chimps in American labs . |
| 7 | ‘ A high exchange rate and the monetary policy which underpins it is just as tough an instrument as domestic credit controls , tax increases or cuts in public expenditure . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ A high exchange rate and the monetary policy which underpins it is just as tough an instrument as domestic credit controls , tax increases or cuts in public expenditure . ’ |
| 9 | Plant oils — sunflower , rape , soy , etc — can be used direct in slightly-modified diesel engines or mixed with conventional fuel . |
| 10 | ‘ Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in the mines . ’ |
| 11 | Local authorities must be notified of private fostering arrangements and of children accommodated by health or education authorities or living in residential care or nursing homes on a long-stay basis ( see Chapter 18 ) . |
| 12 | Emergency admissions as a result of road traffic accidents or falls on icy pavements can not be arranged . |
| 13 | One possibility is that they are blind to the spatial properties of the stimuli and that they can distinguish horizontal from vertical only because the two stripe-patterns activate different classes of motion detectors ; that is , detectors of the vertical motion will be stimulated best when a bee approaches or moves past horizontal stripes , whereas the signature of vertical stripes will be a discharge from detectors of horizontal motion . |
| 14 | For example , doctors come from many different schools ; they are sometimes unwilling to use Mozambican treatment norms or adhere to essential drug lists . |
| 15 | Thus cells without mtDNA can undergo apoptosis when either deprived of survival factors or exposed to high concentrations of staurosporine . |
| 16 | We have shown the following : ( 1 ) cells without mtDNA , and therefore lacking respiratory chain activity , are still able to undergo apoptosis when either deprived of survival factors or exposed to high concentrations of staurosporine ; ( 2 ) such cells can be protected from apoptosis by the overexpression of bcl-2 ; ( 3 ) the overexpression of bcl-2 in cells ( with or without mtDNA ) does not significantly alter respiratory chain activity ; ( 4 ) the Bcl-2 protein in these cells is associated with the nuclear envelope and ER , as well as with mitochondria . |
| 17 | In the table below ( Table 1 ) , which shows data for the years 1973–79 , the combined number of employees dying from fatal accidents or occupational diseases ( most of which are avoidable if employing corporations obeyed government regulations and designed safe production schedules or paid for hazard-free work environments ) far exceed the number of homicide cases recorded by the police . |