Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality .
2 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 .
3 An additional measure of glycaemic control was provided by looking at the mean of all the glycated haemoglobin results for each patient since the date of randomisation and then calculating the mean of means for each group .
4 Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work .
5 There are many other forms of cruelty , e.g. the catching and export of monkeys for medical and other experiments when they should be purpose bred in zoos .
6 Conservative MEP Caroline Jackson ( Wiltshire ) said the European Democratic Group fully supported moves toward a ban on export of waste for final disposal , but felt that it was vital to allow continued exports for further use — recovery or recycling — to OECD countries .
7 The columnists have keen noses for scandals and once their interest is aroused they follow the scent with sleuth-like pertinacity and commendable disregard of the risks of suits for defamation .
8 It shows that the relative risks of mortality for children in social classes IV and V were higher than for those in classes I and II for all age groups , although the difference was not statistically significant at ages 10–15 .
9 Also , the relative risks of mortality for all age groups were highest among children classed as unoccupied .
10 In trying to account for overall trends it is helpful to start with the sequences of factors which control the immediate risks of fertility for the individual and without which births can not occur : natural fecundity ( the physiological capacity to conceive and bear children ) , exposure to intercourse within and outside marriage , and evasion of the consequences of intercourse through contraception and abortion .
11 In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis .
12 ( This type of motion is in the borderland that one may or may not choose to call turbulent , but it shows sufficient of the characteristics of turbulence for the present purpose . )
13 It begins by defining the augmented nature of the product or service being purchased , and looks at the derived characteristics of demand for goods and services in these industrial markets .
14 The outcome will have no immediate impact on the future of Scotland 's only remaining deep mine , at Longannet in Fife , which was not on British Coal 's original hitlist of pits for closure .
15 It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands .
16 The landlord will usually prefer such a reservation in order to utilise the remedy of distress for arrears , and to forfeit the lease without the necessity to serve a notice under s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , which would otherwise apply if these payments were merely tenant 's covenants .
17 They were planning to sell Burton Group Financial Services to General Electric of America for £183 million .
18 Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all .
19 I had soon knitted all sorts of things for her , such as hats , teapot cosies and iron holders .
20 As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal .
21 It may be wondered why it is necessary , or even advantageous , to have two sorts of unit for lexical semantics .
22 ‘ I kept trying to find all sorts of reasons for doing so .
23 I found all sorts of reasons for it , like not being there when my father died .
24 There are all sorts of reasons for giving the less direct answer : B may want to establish that the fact that the reading was not done was not due to laziness .
25 As [ 15 ] and [ 16 ] show , there are all sorts of reasons for constraining the interpretation of another speaker 's utterance .
26 Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy .
27 However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others .
28 There are all sorts of options for how people can respond to one another when they first meet .
29 Low-voltage lighting has all sorts of advantages for outdoor use , the main one being its safety — you wo n't get a shock if you stick your garden fork through the cable , for example .
30 'Mill 's short-passing game was certainly not suited to the conditions , whereas Chiddingfold 's long balls out of defence caused all sorts of problems for the visiting defence .
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