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

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1 There has been little investigation , however , as to how the metastability of hepatic bile changes in the gall bladder of patients with or without cholesterol gall stones .
2 It aims to finance a minimum level of services , to equalize taxable resources between different local authorities , and to relieve the domestic ratepayer of part of the local tax burden .
3 They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers .
4 In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It was found that Staphylococcus aureus protein A had a pronounced inhibition on ADCC ( mean of 71% with a range of 51% to 92% inhibition ) .
8 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 .
9 Fasting volume ( mean of measurements at 15 and 0 minutes before test meal ; V in ml ) and residual postprandial volume were measured as characteristic of gall bladder motility .
10 Indices of CCK and PP release were basal concentration ( mean of concentrations at -15 and 0 minutes ) , maximum increase ( ) , and integrated CCK and PP release ( expressed as pmol/l - 1 /120 min ) .
11 This is now a popular cruising link and the water quality in the Tame Valley canal improves markedly from here with the only weeds being small clumps of watercress along the edges .
12 Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners .
13 It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century .
14 She took his put-down without rancour , allowing her gaze to drift over the paperwork scattered in separate clumps of disorder at intervals along the work-bench .
15 At the site of fusion , cells leave the sheet and form two clumps of cells on either side of the neural tube .
16 To the east and back of the house there were lines of swordplants and small clumps of bushes with vivid scarlet and yellow flowers .
17 The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May .
18 Libby stared into the gaunt white face , the bluish growth on the unshaven chin , but the eyes glanced away and the man started to run from them , hurtling through the trees , towards the bog and the clumps of grass like stepping stones in the stagnant water .
19 There was also a large new bookshop and several shops selling stationery and filing cabinets and offering the opportunity of faxing or photocopying documents of such significance that they must be duplicated , but Camille 's mother could not buy a mop bucket or a length of elastic or a wheel of cheese without going to the centre of town .
20 He was going to lose her for good and was powerless to stop the inexorable wheel of Fortune from taking her from him .
21 From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness .
22 Jane Campbell , a member of the Independent Living Support Group in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames says she wants to raise the injustice of the £500 limit in another forum .
23 The Department does not hold figures for the proposed capital expenditure on secondary schools in the borough of Sunderland in 1991-92 .
24 During the 1980s Margaret Boushel , Claire Debenham , Lisa Dresner and Anna Gorbach worked in the London borough of Islington within social services for pre-school children .
25 May I draw your attention , however , to work No. 5 , which is about ’ a railway commencing in the London borough of Islington by a junction with the Great Northern Railway at a point immediately below the southern portal of the western bore of Copenhagen tunnel ’ ?
26 Few , however , reflect the kind of commitment to effective professional service which inspired McClellan 's system in the borough of Tottenham in the 1950s .
27 In 1593 he was returned to Parliament for the Yorkshire borough of Beverley on the interest of his kinsman Lancelot Alford .
28 Even the London Docklands Development Corporation ( arguably the least local of the boards ) has been involved in negotiations with the London Borough of Newham over low-cost housing and has resisted proposals from developers to utilize land allocated for such housing for other purposes .
29 I believe that the Minister will soon come to the London borough of Newham on an official visit to hear about our arts policy .
30 In the Royal Docks the London Borough of Newham in 1987 agreed to support the broad pattern of land use in three consortia schemes and co-operate with LDDC plans on land development and transport change in the area in return for the provision of 1,500 rented houses , a minimum of £60 million of social facilities and training measures to ensure maximum local employment .
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