Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was no evidence of platelet contamination in the lamina propria mononuclear cell or epithelial cell preparations .
2 This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in the development of vascular disease .
3 Except when prevented by medical reasons or other sufficient cause , candidates who fail to present themselves for an examination , or to submit cumulative or other forms of assessment work by the due date , shall be deemed by the board of examiners to have failed in that examination or assessment .
4 The effects of isotope substitution on the observed spectrum may give valuable information about the numbers of atoms of a specific element present , and about any symmetry relationship between their positions .
5 They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice .
6 I mean it 's almost like as as part of y'know kind of the general the general gossip of everyday life .
7 Put a bit of kitchen roll on the table .
8 Too small to see in the photograph are three ivory mice in the mouse-trap that was an inevitable part of kitchen equipment of the period .
9 Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture
10 Put a piece of kitchen foil on the plate and then the mould on top of that .
11 The burgeoning of leftist idealism in the 1970s was , however , opposed from within the ranks of the left from the start .
12 This had been accomplished in the main by 1921 , thanks to the combined application of brute force in the Civil War and the persuasive methods of the press and other media .
13 The nurse discussed with Mrs Fellows the importance of taking short walks , not sitting with her legs crossed and the continued wearing of support hose in the pre-operative period .
14 Missionaries and preachers strove to switch the focus of hatred from the God of Change to the products of change dwelling in the interior .
15 As well as its contribution to study skills , the science curriculum for years 3–5 contributed to the Challenge of Change theme in the form of biological surveys ( e.g. comparisons of a field over passing years , investigations of pollution at the town tip , and classifications of flora and fauna in a local creek ) .
16 The present paper describes the prevalence of cimetidine use in the Danish population in the years after its introduction in 1977 , and the prevalence of use of peptic ulcer drugs some 10 years later in 1989–90 .
17 In 1977–81 , the prevalence of cimetidine use in the Danish population was 0.42% in men and 0.23% in women ( Table I ) .
18 ‘ I imagine , daddy , ’ Matilda said quietly , ‘ that you were n't looking very hard and you simply took mummy 's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own . ’
19 The most effective prevention for leeches was not our trouser elastics , as we had believed , but a squirt of insect repellent around the tops of our boots .
20 The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass .
21 While murmurs of hope return to the streets of Cardiff , Australian prepare for their 16th international against Wales with coach Bob Dwyer admits : ‘ A win here would go down alongside the best of our achievements while I have been in charge . ’
22 After this , a fugitive Abbasid prince was established in Cairo as a sort of emigré caliph under the protection of the Mamluk rulers there .
23 In the case of ‘ attention focussing ’ , the most obvious use has already been described : this is the placing of tonic stress on the appropriate syllable of one particular word in the tone-unit .
24 So , because children know and use the story form and because it is possible to discern a sequence of development , we have specified various aspects of story structure in the statements of attainment from level 2 to 4 .
25 So , a person with a higher than normal cholesterol concentration carries a relatively low risk if he/she does not smoke , has low blood pressure , is not overweight , exercises regularly and has no history of heart disease in the family .
26 Authentic Italian cooking can be very healthy — witness the relatively low incidence of heart disease in the Italian peninsula — and makes great use of fresh vegetables .
27 In 1987 , 99,479 men and 78,699 women died of heart disease in the UK of which about one in four were in people under the age of 65 [ 2 ] .
28 Dr. Evan Lloyd had reached the conclusion that there was a link between the high incidence of heart disease in the west of Scotland and ‘ environmental cold stress ’ .
29 In the CONSENSUS II ( cooperative north Scandinavian enalapril survival study II ) an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor was given within 24 hours of myocardial infarction in addition to standard treatment and irrespective of baseline ventricular function ( though patients with clinical evidence of heart failure at the time of entry into the study were excluded ) .
30 Underlying the strategic variants were similar fundamental objectives : the prevention of war in Europe ; the denial of sanctuary status to the superpower homelands lest Moscow and Washington should become too trigger-happy in Europe ; a continuing guarantee from the United States — but ideally one which was accompanied by overall American restraint in the conduct of the Cold War ; and the avoidance of major increases in Western European defence budgets .
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