Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finings , a glutinous substance made from the bladder of the sturgeon , is added either at the conditioning stage or when the beer is in cask to fine or clear the beer . |
| 2 | Finings , a glutinous liquid made from the swim bladder of the sturgeon , is also added : this slowly clears the beer of its yeasty deposits . |
| 3 | Many fish specialists believe that in the Devonian all the bony fishes had lungs ( and that the swim bladder of the recent forms was a modification of the early breathing apparatus ) . |
| 4 | S.U. was to be encouraged , eliminating chains of assessment and decision making which had lain within the purview of the superintendent . |
| 5 | It was a development taking place outside the immediate purview of the great all-European social strata and , to some extent , establishing the sinews of economic life which cut across the areas of dynastic concern . |
| 6 | The first is typically within the purview of the natural sciences and is the subject matter of agricultural engineers and soil scientists , while the second is within the social sciences and is studied by economists and sociologists . |
| 7 | Because of the odd separations we make between qualitative and quantitative aspects of planning , enrolments tend to be regarded as the purview of the educational administrator . |
| 8 | In other words , it was the settled view of European law , at that stage in its development , that upon accession , a member state abandoned sovereign control over its affairs to the extent that they fell within the purview of the Treaty of Rome , as interpreted by the European Court of Justice . |
| 9 | The former would be the province of the Atlantic military alliance that Britain hoped the United States would create , while the latter were held to fall under the purview of the body established to administer the Marshall Plan . |
| 10 | This was so because possession of such information placed the firm in a position ‘ superior to other persons [ which made it ] subject to the restraints and the purview of the anti-fraud provisions ’ . |
| 11 | The Department falls within the purview of the Select Committee system in the Commons and also of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 12 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 13 | The fact that the sea waybill is not a document of title in some important maritime jurisdictions such as Great Britain removes it , according to a widely held view , from the purview of the Hague Rules and Hague-Visby . |
| 14 | This is a remarkable development and leads to a sharp distinction according to whether the alleged improper trading practice can be shown to be within the purview of the Treaty as affecting ‘ trade between member states . ’ |
| 15 | However , it is now clear that many legal matters never emerge even for legal assistance , let alone litigation , because they are never identified as legal problems by the sufferers , or never reach lawyers , or , having reached lawyers , are not recognised as problems within the purview of the law . |
| 16 | Alluding to recent Soviet attempts to remove from the purview of the treaty three motorized divisions due for disbandment , by reclassifying them as naval shore defence units , he declared that difficulties were being encountered which " go to the heart of credibility and trust " . |
| 17 | Restoring their land fell within the purview of the bill because in 1948 the Slovak government had agreed that many Hungarians should get their land back , but the decision had never been implemented . |
| 18 | Concern for the poor , and the distribution of alms , responsibility for widows and orphans , and also the visitation of those in prison , all of which came to be recognized as being within the purview of the Church in legal texts , derived from the New Testament . |
| 19 | As with conventions , they are beyond the purview of the courts . |
| 20 | No , no , no , well , that that 's within my purview , and the purview of the committee who elected me . |
| 21 | He stipulated that his kinsman John Herringman should have ‘ my Coppyes and partes of Coppys of Books as they stand entered in the Register Booke of the Company of Staconers … provided that he serves out his seaven years of Apprentishipp justly and truly ’ . |
| 22 | Evaluation before operation in all cases included upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , usually with oesophageal biopsy , cineradiography of the cardiac region , standard reflux test , and Bernstein-Baker test . |
| 23 | This is achieved in the following way : first calculate the mean of the two adjacent values — the skip mean — thus skipping the middle value ; then calculate the mean of the value to be smoothed and the skip mean . |
| 24 | This is achieved in the following way : first calculate the mean of the two adjacent values — the skip mean — thus skipping the middle value ; then calculate the mean of the value to be smoothed and the skip mean . |
| 25 | Lengths are expressed as the mean of the distances measured in millimetres , +/- the standard deviation ( s.d . ) . |
| 26 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 27 | Three readings were obtained and the mean of the last two was recorded as the blood pressure . |
| 28 | Achieved plasma glucose and insulin concentrations were determined as the mean of the 50 , 55 , and 60 minute samples . |
| 29 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 30 | In the future , therefore , we must encourage publishers to be a little more forthcoming about the basis on which they offer readability data , and look carefully to see whether what they have calculated really is the population mean of the book in question . |