Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population . |
| 2 | The only sure method of reducing the risks of AIDS in the users of intravenous drugs and hence in others is to get the sufferers from addictive disease into continuing recovery through the Anonymous Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous so that they have progressively less craving to use addictive drugs . |
| 3 | Lewis and Townsend describe the North-South divide as ‘ one of the distinctive characteristics of Britain in the 1980s ’ . |
| 4 | The problems and costs of organizing transactions depend on both their nature and the assumed characteristics of decision-makers in the model . |
| 5 | The pretreatment characteristics of patients in the two groups were similar ( table I ) , although the median time from original diagnosis of colorectal cancer to entry was slightly longer for patients with chemotherapy ( 8.5 ( range 0 to 61 ) months ) than for those who received supportive care alone ( 5.5 ( 0 to 22 ) months ) . |
| 6 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 7 | Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range . |
| 8 | This project considers the characteristics of individuals in the same households in a study of migration between 1966 and 1970 and between 1970 and 1971 . |
| 9 | But you have to admit , it 's for the dog 's own protection to wear muzzle , as they can pick up all sorts of things in the street which can poison them . |
| 10 | However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting . |
| 11 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 12 | The purser gave them part of the ship where they could do " all sorts of things in the morning — singing , drawing , competitions " . |
| 13 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 14 | You 're able to do all sorts of things in the sky . |
| 15 | Great houses have many different sorts of gardens in the total plan . |
| 16 | Everything went to plan in the opening stages with the Republic piling forward and causing all sorts of anxiety in the Lithuanian defence . |
| 17 | ‘ Besides , I saw eggs and cheese and all sorts of stuff in the cupboard when I spent the night there . |
| 18 | And erm although there 's been sort of all sorts of stuff in the press , have you seen all this stuff in the press about endowments ? |
| 19 | There are two sorts of conditions in the body . |
| 20 | M. B. There were all sorts of people in the old Chinatown area . |
| 21 | You 've got all sorts of detail in the books , little historical facts and things |
| 22 | doing in lots of in all sorts of places in the B Tec level come in . |
| 23 | Drummer Dave Francolini explained : ‘ We have all sorts of influences in the extreme from Ella Fitzgerald to Killing Joke and Einsturzende Neubauten . |
| 24 | I believe it 's a special Songs of Praise in the summer to do with pilgrimages . |
| 25 | A scent like the roots of an oak in autumn , hard , but contaminated with the spores of fungi in the mouldering of ochre leaves that fell , layer upon layer , where branches of the Company still leached its old power to spread ever wider … . |
| 26 | TRADITIONAL Commonwealth growers of bananas in the Caribbean and their importers , such as Fyffes and Geest , will breathe at least a temporary sigh of relief after the European Commission finally made up its mind to extend the present quota-based system in the single market next year . |
| 27 | Donne steps forward , his arms relaxing as if to balance himself during his first few faltering steps after centuries of rest in the tomb . |
| 28 | The writings of Leo XIII ( 1878–1903 ) , on which those of Pius XI ( 1922–39 ) were frequently constructed , are remarkable expressions of a papacy dragging itself up by its bootstraps from centuries of neglect in the field of social , economic , and political issues . |
| 29 | The technique of moving together on the rope is one of the most mistrusted and misused methods of travel in the mountains . |
| 30 | The principal reason why the methods of scrutiny in the House of Commons and the House of Lords differ so widely is that the House of Commons has traditionally seen its power as residing in the Chamber itself and in the power to call ministers to account on the floor of the House . |