Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with ranitidine , the addition of cisapride led to an increase of contraction amplitude during the upright period ( from 28.0 ( 14–54 ) mm Hg to 32.5 ( 13–56 ) mm Hg , p<0.05 ) , and the postprandial periods after breakfast ( from 27.0 ( 14–56 ) mm Hg to 33.5 ( 12–72 ) mm Hg , p<0.05 ) and lunch ( from 27.9 ( 15–44 ) mm Hg to 35.5 ( 19–46 ) mm Hg , p<0.05 ) . |
| 2 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 3 | The addition of indomethacin resulted in a significant decrease in the radioactivity ratio between ulcerated and intact mucosa . |
| 4 | The majority of respondents disagreed with the application of a hardship test for the purpose of excluding all institutional and most corporate claims . |
| 5 | Henry Blake , who was Governor from 1903 to 1907 , believed that ‘ in the majority of cases tried in Ceylon the evidence is unsatisfactory , as there is not alone an utter disregard for truth , but an extraordinary ingenuity of invention . ’ |
| 6 | The majority of complaints came after an article in the Mail on Sunday slated the ad for ‘ presenting women as aesthetically acceptable victims ’ and called on those who felt offended to complain . |
| 7 | The majority of farmers belonged to one or more of the co-operatives . |
| 8 | The most that can be said is that the majority of individuals said to be non-right handed still show left hemisphere language representation ( Annett , Hudson , and Turner , 1974 ; Fleminger and Bunce , 1975 ; Clyma , 1975 ) . |
| 9 | In a referendum conducted throughout Serbia on July 2 , the majority of Serbs voted in favour of proposals for a new constitution for the republic . |
| 10 | With a rapidly increasing urbanization of a growing population , the majority of city-dwellers lived in flats . |
| 11 | And Braque : ‘ When the fragmentation of objects appeared in my painting around 1910 , it was as a technique for getting closer to the object … ’ |
| 12 | The Prince of Wales asked for help |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales looked at the bowl sharply . |
| 14 | The Prince of Wales came to with a jolt . |
| 15 | The Prince of Wales gazed in horror as a large , succulent goose was borne in by Heinrich to the dining-room serving table for carving by Auguste . |
| 16 | The first the Prince of Wales knew of the unhappy event was the following Monday morning . ’ |
| 17 | The Prince of Wales rose to his feet . |
| 18 | ‘ She outlined her regard for the children and made the point that she showed them more attention than the Prince of Wales appeared to . ’ |
| 19 | It 's the variety of questions asked by practitioners that makes life so interesting for the secretariat of CAASE ( Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics ) , the successor to the old Ethics Committee . |
| 20 | Bank and credit card details , airline reservations , patient records , inland revenue data , satellite images , product manuals , and maps , are all examples of the variety of information encoded via a range of input devices from keyboards to scanners on a daily basis . |
| 21 | A local trip freight pulls out in the direction of Staveley hauled by a class J69 on 16th June 1956 . |
| 22 | Again , one might assume that the change of position occurred without any feelings of attitude-change or dissonance . |
| 23 | This Soviet DRA scheme for guarantees of non-intervention in and the non-alignment of Afghanistan sounded like a form of neutralisation of that country on Soviet terms . |
| 24 | The reunification of Russia coincided with and helped to sustain a century of relative prosperity which lasted into the 1560s . |
| 25 | Its status in this respect as the successor of Latin had by then already been developing for generations . |
| 26 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 27 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 28 | The opening of this section of route was delayed until September , because the Board of Trade insisted upon street widening to accommodate the wider Company cars . |
| 29 | With savage irony , when she was in the depths of despair , the tide of publicity turned against her . |
| 30 | He was in the office each day but the tide of work flowed around him . |