Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 2 | While the regional value of whisky exports can not easily be gauged with accuracy in view of the complex nature of the industry it is interesting nevertheless to attempt an assessment of its impact . |
| 3 | But at that same moment Giles had lurched through the crowd to her side and draped a possessive arm around her shoulders , muttering through a cloud of whisky fumes that they had to talk . |
| 4 | The decision by US President Bush in early November 1989 to reject a petition from the Timex Corporation challenging the duty-free import of watch movements for assembly in the Virgin Islands ensured the survival of about 600 jobs on St Croix . |
| 5 | There 's also a whole stack of CDROM titles including The Electronic Library of Art , Great Cities of the World , World Atlas , Chessmaster 3000 and a Sherlock Holmes interactive mystery game . |
| 6 | Over the range of moisture contents likely to be reached in air the lateral dimensions of wood can thus change between five and ten per cent , that is up to an inch on a ten-inch-wide plank . |
| 7 | Even so there is enough in these spaces and in the ‘ Eating Room ’ and the Drawing Room , the one with its amazing Chinoiserie woodwork , the other with its airy flight of hoho birds and pheasants , to provide one of the 18th century 's most satisfying interior sequences , one where discipline and imagination are almost perfectly balanced . |
| 8 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 9 | SIR — The management of patients with epistaxis or diffuse gut bleeding due to thrombocytopenia is difficult since platelet transfusion is often ineffective because of platelet antibodies . |
| 10 | Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips . |
| 11 | In addition , microtubules may be involved in the internal alignment of platelet organelles before the release reaction and , furthermore , may help govern the degree of response to circulating agonists ( White et al , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | α-granules are the most numerous of platelet organelles and they have a variety of densities and staining characteristics . |
| 13 | Local application of platelet concentrates shows potential in treating diffuse mucosal haemorrhage due to thrombocytopenia . |
| 14 | While the opportunities and limitations of fibrinolytic agents for the dissolution of whole blood clots are well known , the potential for dispersion of platelet clumps and platelet-rich thrombus has not been explored adequately . |
| 15 | Capitalist interests become threatened because the legitimacy of non-coercive regulation of capital-labour relations has not been established . |
| 16 | It is not the looming tyranny of prefab structures , square and scowling down on treeless roads of cracked cement , strangled shrubberies and dull-hued minis all in a row . |
| 17 | Homebase 's first ever range of lawncare products offers customers top quality products and is excellent value for money in comparison with leading brands . |
| 18 | Charles Scott , 25 , of Findlay Gardens , Edinburgh , who admitted acting with Edmiston in one of the break-ins , was jailed for 15 months . |
| 19 | However , Pavlov , the famous behaviour scientist , listed four main groups of temperament types , which are useful as they relate to the animal 's response to learning and difficult circumstances . |
| 20 | Updating of a direct file by sorting a batch of update records into their physical order after using the algorithm , and so avoiding the typical random sequence of seeks , can provide rapid ‘ sequential ’ batch updating . |
| 21 | reallocation of update rights should not require the relocation of data , or the renaming of files |
| 22 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 23 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 24 | In the continuing series of unity meetings , South Yemeni leaders reiterated their full commitment to the goal of formal reunification by Nov. 30 , 1990 . |
| 25 | Mandel is right about its being ‘ unified powerfully ’ , but the principle of unity centres on ‘ freedom ’ , not the Sabbath ceremonies ( intrinsic , as they are , to Leonard 's conception of freedom ) ; which merely protects ( when allowed to do so ) that freedom . |
| 26 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 27 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 28 | European Tour 's pace of play regulations but his reaction seemed to suggest that the punishment would n't have the desired effect . |
| 29 | Due to the much poorer state of play areas throughout other parts of the district it may be some time before improvements can be achieved . ’ |
| 30 | The latter goal may be achieved either indirectly , through teachers ' attitudes , or , more directly , through the sex-segregation of play areas and particular activities . |