Example sentences of "such as [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course aims to foster pupils ' interest in the chemical nature of their environment through practical investigation of topics such as separation of mixtures , acids and alkalis , elements and compounds , air and water , carbon , CO2 and carbonates and reactions of metals . |
| 2 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |
| 3 | Libraries have long co-operated in areas such as provision of materials and technical services , and also informally in the area of visits/exchanges by trainees , so that neither co-operative programmes nor co-operation in training is a particularly new phenomenon . |
| 4 | The point at which this happens depends on a number of factors such as complexity of requests in terms of Boolean conditions , speed of access of the medium in use , and size of data file . |
| 5 | The permission may still be subject to conditions such as choice of materials , access , turning space for vehicles and lines of sight . |
| 6 | For example , research findings suggest that children of families under stress are more vulnerable to accidents , such as ingestion of poisons . |
| 7 | The term ‘ cloning ’ refers to a method of asexual reproduction , such as grafting of varieties of apples , whereby all offspring are exact genetic replicas of the parent stock . |
| 8 | It raises important questions about issues such as clarity of objectives , coordination and commitment , roles in teams , the value of planning techniques and of milestone monitoring . |
| 9 | Product-container compatibility includes all possible interactions between product and container such as absorption of constituents of the product by the container , leaching of constituents of the container by the product , corrosion or other adverse effects of the product on the container and the barrier properties of the container ; that is , its effectiveness in protecting the contents from the adverse effects of atmospheric oxygen and/or water vapour and in retaining water and other volatile constituents of the product . |
| 10 | There are other reasons such as commonality of components and , of course , shortage of imagination which lead to most design and development being a progressive iterative process . |
| 11 | This will not , however , address the deficiencies of local storage facilities on those occasions , such as immunisation of children at school , when vaccines need to be transported to other sites . |
| 12 | In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess . |
| 13 | In the recent past agricultural policies have generated pressure to extend and intensify production , particularly of arable crops , leading to undesirable changes in the countryside such as removal of trees and hedges , soil erosion , nitrate pollution of groundwater etc . |
| 14 | It is therefore possible to take completely objective measures of performance such as number of errors , reaction time , or number of correctly recalled propositions . |
| 15 | Most departments have quantifiable running cost inputs ( postage , staff , travel and so on ) and outputs ( such as payments , collections , caseloads ) which can be used to develop performance measures such as accuracy ( proportion of errors ) , timeliness ( such as response time ) , throughput ( such as number of cases dealt with ) and unit cost ( such as average cost per case/client ) . |
| 16 | Studying the semantic features of texts is inevitably rather an intuitive business , and in so far as we can quantify such features at all , it often seems best to attach them to grammatical labels ( eg " colour adjectives " , " adverbials of place " ) , and to use some arbitrary standard of measurement , such as number of words . |
| 17 | In addition to deposition , events such as activation of components of the complement or clotting factor cascades can occur , which lead to generation of moieties which interact with other cell types — eg neutrophils , lymphocytes and macrophages — involved in inflammatory processes . |
| 18 | Secondly , normal time limits for electoral procedures such as submission of nominations were reduced because of the special circumstances of the December elections . |
| 19 | The Regulations cover working environment , such as temperature and ventilation ; safety , such as condition of floors and escalators ; facilities , such as toilets and washing facilities — there are new provisions here regarding rest areas with arrangements for non-smokers and rest facilities for pregnant women and nursing mothers ; and house-keeping , such as maintenance of the work-place , equipment and facilities . |
| 20 | In addition , suicide attempts were usually regarded as implying a wish to die and the existence of mental illness , while less acceptable reasons , such as manipulation of others , were infrequently considered . |
| 21 | In general , silvicultural techniques include the regulation of regeneration , species composition and growth and may be designed to enhance aspects of forestry , such as improvement of habitats for wildlife , that are not related to timber production . |
| 22 | When buildings are sited near trees , the continual movement of the ground can cause structural damage , such as subsidence of foundations and cracking of walls . |
| 23 | In fact one study found that " typical dreams " ( such as loss of teeth , nudity , death , flying , examinations ) constituted less than 1 per cent of dreams collected from REM sleep awakenings . |
| 24 | Around 90 per cent of children between the ages of 5 and 12 years admit to having specific fears such as fear of animals , strange situations , fear of noise , and the dark . |
| 25 | Through her iron self-discipline , Laura had managed to control some of her phobias , such as fear of cows , small insects and mice , but she never obliterated the memory of how she had suffered in younger days . |