Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] [conj] [is] " in BNC.

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1 Melanoma is the most dangerous of three types of skin cancer and is mainly linked with sunburn and sudden , intermittent exposure to sunlight .
2 If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack .
3 This is a summary of defence spending and is supported by statements which subdivide the five votes into smaller sections .
4 Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is a branch of Computer Science that is concerned with making computers more intelligent and by this process more flexible in the types of problems that they can solve .
5 Cleft grafting on the spot is the primary example of field grafting and is widely used in California where varieties of vines cultivated change rapidly with fashion : a grower simply cuts off the whole of his existing variety at rootstock level and clefts on the new desired variety .
6 This is a particular example of negligence liability but is owed only to employees and not to independent contractors .
7 The annual ceremony recognises quality and achievement in all aspects of personnel advertising and is judged by representatives from the advertising industry .
8 The study by Taubman and Wales of males in the top half of the IQ distribution in the United States concluded that for high school graduates ‘ ability is a more important determinant of the range of income distribution than is education . ’
9 The poly gave 15 and 16-year-olds hands-on experience of biochemistry equipment that is too expensive for schools to provide .
10 You know , when you 've got a part to do , you usually have an instinct for the kind of guitar sound that 's going to work .
11 Chairman of the FUW 's farm tourism committee he serves on the steering group of Menter Powys and is vice-chairman of Food From Britain 's joint venture steering group for sheep which is currently investigating prospects for marketing quality Welsh lamb .
12 and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on
13 The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 .
14 Her head is large with a substantial brain many times bigger than the tiny knot of nerve cells that is all that a worker possesses .
15 Graveney feels that in county cricket there is not the same class of speed attack as is found in Test cricket .
16 The drawing suggests the type of investment situation that is often to be found in high-technology investment .
17 ‘ The new ratings will be used by the Council to inform calculations of grant for the academic year 1990/91 and for the funding period 1991-95 … the Council 's provisional decision to continue to fund research on the basis of competitive assessments of quality and … to increase the proportion of research resources that is allocated selectively . ’
18 Although this appears to be a field of management studies that is going out of fashion , nevertheless I think one disregards the work of sociologists at one 's peril .
19 The executive grade undertakes a wide range of management tasks and is drawn from both graduates and the more able school-leavers .
20 In other words , does the system 's putatively superior wealth generating capacity justify the concentration of decision-making power that is entailed ?
21 Thus the interaction between these stimuli is just what would be expected from considerations of generalization decrement and is not that predicted by conditioned attention theory .
22 ( 1981 ) and Balaz , Capra , Kasprow , and Miller ( 1982 ) is , in part , a consequence of generalization decrement as is that described by Archer et al .
23 Therefore the T2 cell line shows strongly decreased expression of HLA-B5 and partially decreased expression of HLA-A2.1 molecules and is deficient in antigen presentation .
24 One star which shows obvious colour is W Boo¨tis , which is of type M and is slightly variable with a range of from 5.0 to 6.4 .
25 But if anyone can offer further advice and help , perhaps with details of specialist counselling that 's available , please make contact .
26 From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards .
27 Today , she flies to the Marcos family home province of Ilocos Norte and is expected to surrender to police tomorrow on tax fraud charges .
28 ICL 2900 series software allows the user to specify the packing of home buckets that is desired when the file is created .
29 The report on East Cleveland 's housing shortage was made at a forum in Skelton which revealed that there are : 114 homeless families in East Cleveland 2000 households on the council 's waiting list Only 35 new private houses built in the area in 1991–2 Langbaurgh council has £11m from the sale of council houses but is not allowed to spend it on building new ones .
30 Employing this methodology , Nyman and Silberston , as already noted , find a significantly higher occurrence of ownership control than is generally assumed .
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