Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significant positive correlation of β-thromboglobulin to platelet malondialdehyde formation suggests that the enhanced platelet-release reaction may be in part linked to increased platelet prostaglandin synthesis in diabetic subjects ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) , possibly leading to generation of unstable endoperoxides and thromboxanes which are powerful inducers of platelet aggregation and release reaction ( Hamberg et al , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | Platelet aggregation , or platelet-platelet stickiness , can be regarded as a special case of platelet adhesion and follows adhesion of platelets to injured surfaces . |
| 3 | An unknown Scotland fan , in an advanced state of euphoria hugs and kisses the ecstatic Jim Baxter . |
| 4 | She 'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad . |
| 5 | The softness is a characteristic of owl feathers and makes for silent flight . |
| 6 | I 'm not interested in you telling me what those meaning are or coming out with kind of y'know ideas that crossing your arms means that you 're defensive or anything like that . |
| 7 | Part of this signal depends on the synaptic activation of NMDA receptors and reflects , at least in part , Ca 2+ entry through NMDA channels and voltage-gated Ca 2+ channels . |
| 8 | Depressed and disappointed , she went to the square of kitchen window and looked out on to the pool , which glittered in the moonlight , now flowing with the precious and expensive liquid which should have filled their most urgent needs . |
| 9 | It cooked and washed the dishes afterwards and preferred pubs to cafés , and its fiction cheerfully describes a world of kitchen squalor and bedsit intimacies . |
| 10 | The dressing table itself is basically a worktop : either a length of kitchen worktop or make from the same material as the rest of the system . |
| 11 | Maxim took a handful of kitchen paper and began to dismantle and dry the revolver . |
| 12 | For my tastes , the Contour control was only usable up to about 5 , where it started to take on that ‘ no tone ’ sound , evoking images of preserve jars and trapped insects . |
| 13 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 14 | For many of us , even the options of support registers and levy plus , are schemes whether they are dubious starters . |
| 15 | On receipt of Change Review and Change Request Forms from the Director , Information Systems the Change Coordinator will : |
| 16 | Wheelchair-bound and with a high percentage of skin loss that has worn away most of her fingers and toes , she has to endure a 90-minute ordeal of having her dressings changed every morning . |
| 17 | To put it another way , ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants . |
| 18 | He discovered that she had an IQ of genius level and announced that she needed firm discipline and intellectual stimulation . |
| 19 | found Bcl-2 mainly in the nuclear envelope and ER of insect cells that had been transfected with a human bcl-2 complementary DNA ( consistent with an earlier study by Liu et al. , which found endogenous Bcl-2 localized to both mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial sites of human tonsilar B cells ) . |
| 20 | Those few studies of cinema audiences that do exist have employed the methods of mass sociology and market research , which can not fully capture the individual , subjective experience of filmgoing , since they miss out idiosyncratic detail and the personal dreamworld . |
| 21 | This emphasis on centralization with contradictions , helps to avoid overestimating the unity of elite interests or treating the state as a monolithic entity . |
| 22 | But arguments of this nature , often plausible and just as often highly speculative , give some indication of the enduring characteristics of elite arguments that make such arguments readily comprehensible , and convincing in a synthetic manner , but lacking either the pretensions to analytic rigour of behaviouristic pluralism or the steam-roller systematic explanations of Marxism . |
| 23 | Madeleine picked up a pair of pinking shears and began to slice through the material . |
| 24 | Now read on and discover the world of PC shareware and keep watching Practical PC next month for an entirely new selection . |
| 25 | Rao warned that " hard decisions " would have to be implemented to manage the balance of payment situation and to curb inflation . |
| 26 | She submitted a list of 16 queries , including ones on annual figures on deliveries , the average number of internal examinations , the average number of scans per pregnancy , details on pain relief in labour , and the number of caesarian sections or forceps deliveries . |
| 27 | If you could just pick up a load of scrap iron and shove it on the bill under metalwork you would n't be turning up your nose at the subject . |
| 28 | In her study of Maurice Sendak , Selma G. Lanes ( 1981 , p.47 ) speaks of three kinds of story illustration and gives Sendak 's evaluation of them : ‘ From his earliest books on , the artist always rated interpretive [ sic ] illustrations , pictures that expand a given text and add a new richness of meaning to it , above both narrative illustration which simply mirrors the author 's words , and mere graphic decoration ’ . |
| 29 | As so often happens , the passage of time showed an increasing number of disadvantages of the treatment , including a greater frequency of heart disease and strokes in men receiving oestrogens . |
| 30 | Oren et al reported that 10 of their 76 patients died despite home monitoring of heart rate and breathing movements . |