Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been little investigation , however , as to how the metastability of hepatic bile changes in the gall bladder of patients with or without cholesterol gall stones . |
| 2 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 3 | And in the same year the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes of the greatest of all English lutenists , John Dowland ( 1563–1626 ) , was printed ‘ with Tableture for the Lute : So made that all the parts together , or either of them severally may be song to the Lute , Orpherian [ a species of cittern , tuned like a lute ] or Viol de Gambo ’ , a confused description which conceals the condition that the highest part must be sung . |
| 4 | He bequeathes a number of books : a ‘ little booke of praiers ’ and service books belonging to his chapel , ‘ my saulter clasped with silver ’ , and ‘ my grete booke called saint Grall ’ ( British Library Royal MS 14 . |
| 5 | Calculating the mean of probabilities for each of the candidate letters across the length of the strings ( for example ljaclc = ( 99 + 62 + 100 + 74 + 99 + 75 ) /6 = 84.83 ) , and ordering the strings on the basis of these results gives table 2.1 below . |
| 6 | Likewise , the 1957 figure is replaced by the mean of years 1955 to 1959 , i.e. and so on . |
| 7 | Fasting volume ( mean of measurements at 15 and 0 minutes before test meal ; V in ml ) and residual postprandial volume were measured as characteristic of gall bladder motility . |
| 8 | Indices of CCK and PP release were basal concentration ( mean of concentrations at -15 and 0 minutes ) , maximum increase ( ) , and integrated CCK and PP release ( expressed as pmol/l - 1 /120 min ) . |
| 9 | Another dual-period tale from the author of A Wheel of Stars , here mingling 13th century French history with a contemporary search novel . |
| 10 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |
| 11 | For through the seemingly substantial chest of his great-great-grandfather he could glimpse the hazed , refracted image of the Ywe Lung , the great wheel of dragons broken by the planes of his ancestor 's body . |
| 12 | Yet every year brings casualties : young drivers behind the wheel of cars they are too inexperienced to handle , losing control and killing themselves or others . |
| 13 | Departmental heads were adept at concealing from their puppets even the gentlest jerk of strings and wire . |
| 14 | He did not quite begin in rags ; he was the great-grandson of an Irish immigrant to New York , where his father worked in the cleaning department of the borough of Queens . |
| 15 | In the New York borough of Queens a policeman rescued 13 children from a van trapped on a flooded road . |
| 16 | Social studies on the religiousness of adults have shown a very clear correlation between what they now believe and the spiritual environment of the home in which they were brought up . |
| 17 | Religion of women in twentieth century Greece |
| 18 | Dionysiac religion was a religion of initiates , , and at the centre of its worship was the mystical evocation of nature 's awesome unity , the primal unity concealed by our dismemberment into individuals , and the worshippers ' yearning for a recovery of that unity . |
| 19 | Capers are the unopened flower buds of the plant Capparis spinosa which has a low , trailing habit and grows abundantly in the wild , although it is cultivated extensively in Mediterranean countries , especially Spain and France , where the export of capers is a lucrative business . |
| 20 | On Feb. 15 Helmut Haussmann , the Economics Minister , had announced tougher legislation covering the export of materials and technology capable of application in the manufacture of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons . |
| 21 | The next phase of exploitation of the forest , the export of materials , is bound up , then , with the collecting activities of the early forest people . |
| 22 | On Sept. 5 Belize also guaranteed Guatemala ( i ) permanent access to the Caribbean from the adjacent Guatemalan department of Petén ; ( ii ) the use of port facilities , especially that of Big Creek for the export of bananas ; and ( iii ) the right to participate in joint ventures such as oil exploration in Belize 's maritime exclusive economic zone . |
| 23 | The export of skins was prohibited . |
| 24 | This amounted to 10.9 per cent of Israel 's overall export of goods . |
| 25 | The import and export of goods is more complicated than conducting domestic business within a single country , for a number of largely self-evident reasons . |
| 26 | Apart from explorers and travellers , one of the first Englishmen to settle in Madeira was William Bolton , in 1695 , when he took advantage of the Act of Charles 11 which prohibited the export of goods grown or manufactured in Europe to the West Indies and American Colonies , unless shipped from British ports in British ships , with Madeira specifically excluded from its terms . |
| 27 | After that , it would be renewed only if the president indicated that China had adhered to human-rights commitments , stopped the export of goods made with prison labour and made ‘ overall significant progress ’ on a set of other matters , which range from ceasing religious persecution in Tibet to prohibiting the transfer of missile technology to Syria , Pakistan and Iran . |
| 28 | The US House of Representatives on July 10 approved the extension of most favoured nation ( MFN ) trading status to China , but linked its renewal in 1992 to China meeting stringent conditions on improving human rights , ending the export of goods produced in prison labour camps , and strictly controlling the sale of ballistic missiles to the Middle East . |
| 29 | In addition , further renewal of MFN status in 1992 was to be dependent on China meeting stringent conditions concerned with ( i ) improving human rights ; ( ii ) ending the export of goods produced in prison labour camps ; and ( iii ) controlling the sale of ballistic missiles to the Middle East . |
| 30 | The Awards announced on the Queen 's birthday are to recognise and encourage outstanding achievement in the field of export of goods or services from the UK , and together with Awards for Technological Achievement , were instituted by Royal Warrant in 1976 . |