Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the current investigation is to show a possible binding or uptake of PT-gliadin in the enterocytes , and to compare the handling of the components between coeliac patients and controls . |
| 2 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 3 | It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum . |
| 4 | It represented a 2.6 per cent decrease in real spending compared with the 1990 budget , and involved the recommended closure of 35 domestic military bases , the realignment or reduction of forces at a further 200 military facilities and the closure of 13 overseas bases . |
| 5 | ( c ) Accreditation , i.e. proficiency certification often in some way a summary " or measure of achievement on the course of instruction and often used for selection purposes , or to acknowledge success . |
| 6 | And there are few enough references to international hostilities in the novels of Jane Austen , or signs of distress in the great landscape and portrait paintings of the age . |
| 7 | They were composed of three members : a chairman and two members , one a representative of workers , the other drawn from a panel of persons appearing ‘ to have knowledge or experience of conditions in the area to which the panel relates and of the problems of people living on low incomes ’ . |
| 8 | Members are appointed by the President from those considered to ‘ have knowledge or experience of conditions in the area and to be representative of persons living or working in the area ’ ( Social Security Act 1975 , Sched. 10 , para. ( 2 ) ) . |
| 9 | Individual peasants and lords could and did remove strips or groups of strips from the rotation sequence of their neighbours and fence them around . |
| 10 | However , an attempt may be made to allocate particular bits or groups of bits in the operation code field to particular features of the instruction ; one bit , for example , might specify whether the result of an operation is to be placed in the accumulator , and another whether the fixed-point arithmetic unit is to be used by the operation . |
| 11 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 12 | ( 6 ) Forecasts The insurance policies are only really intended to cover liability for accident or misstatement of fact by the vendor . |
| 13 | Searches may be made through subject headings ( though these are too broad to be really useful ) , or more effectively — at least in the pure and applied sciences — through keywords or combinations of keywords in the titles of books listed . |
| 14 | You get a large volume or bulk of food for a small or moderate number of calories , and that in itself is going to necessitate considerably more chewing and take considerably more time . |
| 15 | We might expect such a recognition to be especially difficult in strong cultures , where investment of self in the work of the firm is most profound . |
| 16 | ‘ Subject to sections 7 and 8 below , a person who has become a rehabilitated person for the purposes of this Act in respect of a conviction shall be treated for all purposes in law as a person who has not committed or been charged with or prosecuted for or convicted of or sentenced for the offence or offences which were the subject of that conviction ; and , notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law to the contrary , but subject as aforesaid — |
| 17 | The guardian may produce any copy he takes in his report or when he gives evidence and it will be admissible regardless of any enactment or rule of law to the contrary ( s42(2) ( 3 ) ) . |
| 18 | I find it almost impossible to accept that such an injury … could have occurred without extensive bruising and swelling of the nose and probably fracture or disruption of structures within the nose and associated tissues . ’ |
| 19 | This method caused an immediate necrosis of the entire thickness of gastric wall under the area of acetic acid application ( about 28 mm ) but without perforation or penetration of ulcers to the surrounding organs as in the original technique . |
| 20 | With the aim of clarification , medical epidemiologists have introduced the impairment/disability/handicap triad : loss of function or loss of part of the body ( impairment ) leads to difficulty with the tasks of daily living ( disability ) , resulting in economic and social disadvantage ( handicap ) . |
| 21 | A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system . |
| 22 | Loss of control in the self ( particularly the ‘ selves ’ of powerful individuals ) , or loss of control in a wider social or political fabric could produce a domino effect bringing the whole into chaos . |
| 23 | Finally , remember to protect oxygenating plants with wide cylinders or domes of netting for a few weeks to prevent any fish from pulling them up before they 're established . |
| 24 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 25 | Having registered at the reception desk they went to their room and found a notice which purported to exempt the hotel for liability for the loss or theft of property from the rooms . |
| 26 | Third , the Acropolis of Athens — a feature which , like some other masterpieces of nature or art , is so familiar that it is hard to see it with fresh eyes — was an inevitable centre for the rynoikism or concentration of Attica from a plurality of villages into a mia polis , ‘ one city ’ . |
| 27 | Where the bottom is weedy ( ordinary soft weed , not algae ) you can incorporate a cork or piece of polystyrene into the feeder to keep it on top of the weed ( see Fig. 3 ) . |
| 28 | A newspaper heading ; title of an article or piece of news in a newspaper , journal , magazine , etc . |
| 29 | On other occasions a user may want every document or piece of information on a topic traced , and then high recall must be sought to the detriment of precision . |
| 30 | When dry , thread a ribbon or piece of string through the hole and your decoration is ready to hand on the wall . |