Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with conventions , they are beyond the purview of the courts . |
| 2 | Lengths are expressed as the mean of the distances measured in millimetres , +/- the standard deviation ( s.d . ) . |
| 3 | Thus it could be appropriate to calculate a weighted mean of the relatives using the base values , p B q B , as weights ; i.e. for the price index , |
| 4 | For each patient , each assay was performed in duplicate at each site studied and the mean of the results calculated . |
| 5 | Since children were randomised to treatment group by cluster in the Survival Study , the results , both of the baseline comparisons and the mortality rates , were analysed by a comparison of the mean of the results in each of the 92 vitamin A clusters against the mean of the results in each of the 93 placebo clusters . |
| 6 | Since children were randomised to treatment group by cluster in the Survival Study , the results , both of the baseline comparisons and the mortality rates , were analysed by a comparison of the mean of the results in each of the 92 vitamin A clusters against the mean of the results in each of the 93 placebo clusters . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 8 | The grand mean of the samples of 4 , which we call , and the mean of the individual observations , x― , are nearly the same and approach each other as the number of samples increases . |
| 9 | The grand mean of the samples of 4 , which we call , and the mean of the individual observations , , are nearly the same and approach each other as the number of samples increases . |
| 10 | Taking the mean of the contributions from the 68 and 90% population fractions produced the expression : |
| 11 | Lieutenant Ward Bond was at the wheel of the police convertible hot on his tail . |
| 12 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 13 | The prophets of Israel reformed the old tribal religion of the Hebrews , brought them a more transcendent conception of God and a deeper morality . |
| 14 | The attitude of many older musicians and critics to science and technology is nothing more , of course , than the stale residue of the romantic , fin de siècle aesthetic that , in the phrase of Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , claims science to be ‘ the religion of the suburbs ’ . |
| 15 | For example , it may come as something of a surprise to find that , during the English Civil War , the Parliamentarian party , which controlled London and the mint in the Tower , emphasised its legitimacy by continuing to issue coinage in the king 's name , whereas at the Royalist mint of Oxford the king 's coinage proclaims : ‘ RELIG PROT LEG ANG LIBER PAR ’ ( ’ The religion of the Protestants , the laws of England and the liberty of Parliament ’ ) . |
| 16 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 17 | Yet it was often an element in earlier national struggles — in the Low Countries , between the Protestant north and the Catholic south ( where the Spanish Crown ensured , through the Inquisition , that the Catholic faith remained the religion of the loyalists ) . |
| 18 | As Gramsci points out , the religion of the clergy is not necessarily the religion of this or that social group of laity , whose religious interpretation is also related to their own concrete world of experience . |
| 19 | There were also forms of Judaism which the Jews themselves refused to acknowledge as such — the schismatic religion of the Samaritans , for instance , who insisted that their Judaism was the only true form . |
| 20 | The old religion of the Jews is now replaced . |
| 21 | Totemism is the earliest form of religion , according to Freud , and he quotes Robertson Smith 's The Religion of the Semites in which the sacrifice of an animal at the altar is said to be the most fundamental element in religion . |
| 22 | Now the 106 member states belonging to CITES ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ) have imposed a ban on the import and export of the skins of spotted cats . |
| 23 | There was , however , a very practical reason for the facing of the galleries in these directions . |
| 24 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 25 | The gradual acceptance of the germ theory of infection , following the research of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch into viruses and vaccines in the 1870s and 1880s , had resulted in the rapid isolation of the bacilli of all the major infectious diseases . |
| 26 | Lane u : cells irradiated with 60 Joules of UV light prior to isolation of the nuclei ( incubated as for control cells ) . |
| 27 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
| 28 | The teacher with less severely visually impaired pupils already in the class who faces the prospect of receiving pupils with more severe visual disabilities will want to consider practical and immediate strategies to mitigate problems of social acceptance and to reduce or eliminate cruel teasing or isolation of the pupils who have defective vision . |
| 29 | ( Such aspects also suggest technical isolation of the metalworkers . ) |
| 30 | His benign indifference to the grave problems of the contemporary world was seen as one of the main causes of the threatened collapse of British civilization and of the total isolation of the Die-hards . |