Example sentences of "[conj] great [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differences in antibody responses between the study groups were assessed by comparison of ( i ) rates of seroconversion ( defined as a change in antibody titre from undetectable [ <8 ] to detectable [ 8 ] ; ( ii ) rates of secondary 4-fold or greater rises in antibody titre in seropositive children for whom additional 4-fold rises could be reliably documented with a neutralisation upper limit of 1:1024 — ie , children with baseline titres of 8–256 ; and ( iii ) type-specific geometric mean titres ( GMTs ) among the total study population and among children who seroconverted or had secondary 4-fold or greater rises in antibody after vaccination . |
| 2 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 3 | Given the nickname ‘ Woodbine Willie ’ by the troops , he once described his chaplain 's ministry as taking ‘ a box of fags in your haversack and great deal of love in your heart ’ and laughing and joking with those he was called to serve . |
| 4 | But we are lucky we have great people and great people in terms of the ordinary people . |
| 5 | Lookouts on outlying islands warned fishing villages of approaching whales , whereupon great numbers of men in small boats gave chase . |
| 6 | This simple observation is crucial to the argument of this chapter , as it allows us to question ingrained assumptions concerning the superiority and greater significance of language over other forms of expression . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) improved staff interest in and promotion of the library , and greater awareness by colleagues of which books were on the shelves : |
| 8 | Mr Bain , who is in charge of the US operations , said : ‘ We did n't have any presence in the specialist medical markets , and pharmaceuticals is a fast-growing business with an ageing Western population and greater choice of drugs to be marketed . |
| 9 | Yet patients in Italy , France and Germany had switched to newer ACE inhibitors with fewer side effects and greater benefit to patients with linked problems like diabetes and heart disease , asthma , gout and high blood-fat levels , said Dr Griffin . |
| 10 | This results in much thinner material at the joints and greater possibility of separation of the glue due to less surface contact . |
| 11 | In line with this trend , the 1989 White Paper , ‘ Caring for People ’ stressed the importance of both informal care and greater provision of care by ‘ independent sector ’ , which includes both private and voluntary organisations . |
| 12 | They demanded child-care provisions and greater cooperation from men in domestic work . |
| 13 | For a better understanding and greater co-operation between people of different religions that we may build trust and friendship among our neighbours of other faiths to promote true peace … |
| 14 | The Swann Report ( 1985 , p 393 ) devotes half a page ( out of 800 pages ) to this age group and recommends extension of nursery facilities for ethnic minority children and greater numbers of staff from the ethnic minorities . |
| 15 | Statements of attainment could be set out in very general terms , permitting a great variety of learning routes and greater autonomy for teachers in the classroom , but they would run the risk of being uninterpretable by SAT developers and teachers , or , given the political imperative to produce national assessments , interpretable in an arbitrary fashion . |
| 16 | But great link up play from front players that . |
| 17 | Greater sense of teamwork but greater risk of disaster through personality clash . |
| 18 | A significant difference between the LVF and RVF on " same " trials might imply a faster rate and/or greater magnitude of adaptation in one visual hemifield . |