Example sentences of "[adj] study of [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions .
2 Like our own time , the late nineteenth century saw a constant tension between the desire to exploit and the desire to conserve , and we should beware of identifying either of these attitudes with any particular development in the scientific study of life and its environment .
3 The scientific study of language and its history and derivation .
4 these large-scale colour photographs , made while Lithgow was a student in the pioneering photography school at West Surrey College of Art , have the gravitas of old masters , highly posted and unrelentingly severe studies of women and their children .
5 Who has made a particular study of teams and their development .
6 The WORC programme adopted a longi-tudinal , comparative focus based on eight in-depth studies of firms and their work organization in their sectoral environments .
7 Close study of applications and their results , including objections , enable the developer to build up a comprehensive survey of the current attitudes of the local planning authority to development proposals , and those sites likely to receive favourable consideration .
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