Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [conj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , more information is required concerning the pattern of excretion of Cryptosporidium and other organisms , in order to investigate whether the chronic diarrhoea in these cases is a result of persistent infection or is a postinfective phenomenon . |
| 2 | Do you fear that adolescence is a period when you are likely to lose the closeness , the affection and the degree of parental control that is desirable in your relationship with your son or daughter ? |
| 3 | The Glass Menagerie is relevant to all young people chafing under the yoke of parental control and is therefore as suitable for young as it id for older audiences ’ |
| 4 | If its research is successful , it should mean the end of mass-produced tomatoes that are tasteless because they are picked before they are fully ripe to prevent wastage during handling . |
| 5 | Researchers who studied attitudes towards extra-marital sex , relative to the size of the community , found that in general , people living in rural areas are less tolerant of extra-marital sex and are less likely to engage in it than people living in large cities . |
| 6 | Dehydration is a brilliant way of preserving food and is particularly useful for foods that do n't freeze well , such as tomatoes and strawberries . |
| 7 | Although preventive measures are an integral part of the approach , and therefore included in the list , they pose particular problems in the management of self-poisoning patients and are therefore considered in a separate section . |
| 8 | We now conclude that the presence of a separation between cytoplasmic and parietal structures and the evidence of large polyphosphate structures may represent the morphological consequence of nutritional conditions that are more and more difficult in the natural history of H pylori infection . |
| 9 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 10 | In the Catholic school , and especially within the primary sector , the teacher 's role is not only that of professional educator but is also that of companion on a pilgrim journey of faith . |
| 11 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 12 | It 's thought , in fact , that they represent areas where ‘ midocean ’ ridges once formed below the continents , in the late stages of continental rifting , but before an ocean proper had opened ( cf. chapter one ) , so in a sense the kind of volcanic activity that is typical of oceanic areas in fact took place on dry land . |
| 13 | There must , for example , have been an industry in the Mesara Plain to supply the large numbers of votive figurines that are found in the tombs of that region . |
| 14 | This is after only eighteen months of Labour control and is rapidly becoming the of the North . |
| 15 | Two extracts from students ' responses will illustrate the sort of four-minute stories that were written : |
| 16 | There were a number of strange facts that were difficult to explain , and the judge decided that she was the murderer . |
| 17 | Arridge and Barham pointed out that the Halpin-Tsai equations are equivalent to those of shear-lag theory if is taken as |
| 18 | Two further general observations can be made about the view of economic change that is held by Bell and other post-industrial writers . |
| 19 | The asserted transformation of the economy from an industrial to a service-based post-industrial economy rests upon a linear model of economic change that was first proposed by Fisher and Clark in the 1930s . |
| 20 | People were feeling the ‘ pinch ’ of economic reform and were not convinced by official explanations of the necessity for hardships while some private businesses were making huge profits . |
| 21 | In practice , it is those elements of economic worth that are most easily measured ( because of their marketable nature as an asset value , which is easily detectable ) that attract taxation . |
| 22 | THE BRITISH government is looking eagerly for signs of economic recovery but is may not have noticed that the quickest way of discerning increased industrial activity is not to look at it , but to listen . |
| 23 | The number of ‘ unemployed ’ is never on its own an adequate description of the forms of economic restructuring that are occurring , even when such figures are calculated with integrity . |
| 24 | Another example of a quite deliberately imposed implementation problem is the adoption of administrative procedures that are explicitly designed to affect the impact of a policy . |
| 25 | Weldex , which was set up in 1979 and now has a turnover of £4 million , will this week take delivery of Glasgow-based cranes that were stranded in England after Lilley 's collapse . |
| 26 | White clover is polymorphic for the presence or absence of cyanogenic glucosinolates and is also polymorphic for the beta glucosidases that release HCN from glucosinolates when a leaf is damaged . |
| 27 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |
| 28 | The " depth " of recursion , means the number of sub-sub- branches that are allowed to grow , before the process is brought to a halt . |
| 29 | There were times when her preoccupation with ‘ basket power ’ , with the sovereignty of the consumer seemed part of a conception of political change that was both reformist and restricted , not least because it failed to challenge domestic discourses of women 's roles ; but such attention has to be seen in the context of a commitment to conceptions of political radicalisation based on personal development . |
| 30 | These were the kinds of political goods that were wanted . |