Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] [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 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 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 Religion of women in twentieth century Greece
6 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 .
7 ( Although , as the free export of arms to France had been permitted , the restrictions were more nominal than real . )
8 Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency .
9 Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . "
10 The term ‘ Internal Market ’ is usually attributed to Enthoven , who put forward proposals for greater import and export of patients between health authorities .
11 The existing brick bungalow , to the north of the chapel , which constituted the lunatic wards in the 1916 plan should , they suggested , be adapted for the isolation of cases of puerperal fever ( a general term including ‘ the several affections which may occur as a direct result of childbirth ’ ) .
12 The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) .
13 In 1973 experiments were reported which described the isolation of portions of tissue containing something which combined specifically with morphine and other potent analgesics .
14 Isolation of genes from yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) has become a challenging task for integrating physical and transcriptional maps .
15 To isolate these sequences we used the enzyme T 4 DNA polymerase which has been shown to enable the isolation of telomeres with virtually no loss of telomeric DNA ( 30 ) .
16 Furthermore , selective isolation of vesicles from basolateral and apical membranes has often revealed a polarised distribution of these transport systems between the two membranes ( Figs 1–3 ) .
17 Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality .
18 Fleming continued to work with penicillin as an aid to the isolation of bacteria in cultures all through the 1930s .
19 Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot .
20 THE US state department is being accused of trying to sabotage a recent conference in Vietnam that was called to discuss the long-term effects of the spraying of defoliants on the country 's forests by American planes during the Vietnam War .
21 The many successes in the hey-day of malaria eradication programmes are a witness to this , and the most effective method of controlling the vector was undoubtedly the spraying of houses with residual insecticides .
22 Publication of a peer reviewed article by members of the Ciba-Geigy Department of Toxicology and Pathology ( Bombay ) serves to legitimise the methods of the ‘ study ’ , and thus the indiscriminate spraying of pesticides on children .
23 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 .
24 The exposure and remedy of facets of systems performance which are not entirely as predicted is in everyone 's interest .
25 All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 .
26 There was also a minor reorganization of ministries including the merger of the Ministry for Relations with Parliament and with that for Relations with Political Parties .
27 There are even bigger issues : the role which Lenin played in preparing the ground for Stalin , an objective assessment of Trotsky 's contribution , and the feasibility of alternatives to industrialisation at the end of the 1920s .
28 Brian Roycroft , President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1988 , in answer to the question ‘ What is the incidence of child abuse and child sexual abuse ? ’ in his evidence to the Cleveland Inquiry , reported that : He went on to say , however , that his association undertook a survey in July 1987 of 100 local authorities and found an increase in child abuse registrations of 22 per cent for the country over the previous year , with the most significant increases in child sexual abuse .
29 However , both organizations consider these increases are more likely to reflect growing public awareness and improved detection rather than ‘ an actual increase in the incidence of abuse ’ ( Association of Directors of Social Services , 1987 , p.6 ) .
30 ( Association of Directors of Social Services , 1987 , p.5 )
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