Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun pl] with " in BNC.

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1 As we shall see in Chapter 11 on deviance , the activities of groups with fewer power resources are much more likely to be labelled as ‘ social problems ’ and be given greater publicity than are those of the more dominant social groups in society .
2 A double-blind , placebo-controlled , parallel-group study was done to investigate the response of patients with atopic dermatitis to essential fatty acid supplements .
3 In 1989 , 80% of the income of households with weekly incomes of below £45 came from state benefits , with 2% from wages and salaries .
4 The addition of subjects with missing data could , however , have changed the picture and made ethnicity a significant variable .
5 The majority of cases with sustained coverage involved young girls ( including a couple of cases where the victim was under 10 ) who were usually alone and the focus of a single attack .
6 Some swelling is normal in later pregnancy — in fact the majority of women with healthy pregnancies have a certain amount of swelling — so your midwife or doctor will not be concerned at slightly puffy hands , face or ankles near the end of pregnancy .
7 In contrast , in the majority of animals with Type II , the diarrhoea is often intermittent and anorexia and thirst are usually present .
8 Huggins and his colleagues showed that , either removal of the testes or treatment with hormones benefited the majority of patients with carcinoma of the prostate .
9 Another study conducted in 1989 is starting to show the same phenomenon : the majority of patients with their first myocardial infarct do not have severe , diffuse coronary disease ; they may have a single lesion affecting only a single vessel .
10 Saxon et al reported that IgG perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies could be detected in the sera of the majority of patients with ulcerative colitis and in a much smaller percentage of the sera of patients with Crohn 's disease .
11 This study confirms that patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus have a marked degree of acid gastrooesophageal reflux , considerably exceeding that seen in the majority of patients with erosive oesophagitis without columnarisation .
12 Despite the growing numbers taking part in higher education , women are still under-represented in the majority of jobs with any claim to status and responsibility .
13 Our defence policy is based on our massive commitments , due to our former empire and colonies , now our Commonwealth , and the variety of organisations with which Britain is involved while our European partners are not .
14 Will emphasis shift from the provision of services with a high value-added component to the bulk handling of a large number of fairly simple enquiries ?
15 The districts are also able to provide both on-street and off-street car parks , subject to the consent of the county council ; and share the provision of allotments with the community councils ( Department of the Environment/Welsh Office 1974 : 10 ) .
16 While the National Trust must be the number one choice for great houses , the existence of alternatives with a different approach can only be healthy .
17 Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power .
18 Third , there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and " fuller versions " when it is replaced by a clause ; for example , consider : ( 31 ) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest ; Ernest was guilty ( 32 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea ; his beef tea is strong In the latter case , for instance , there may not be any strong beef tea at all ; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point .
19 As it is unknown whether measurement of serum pepsinogen C can help in the differentiation of patients with hyperpepsinogenaemia A , serum concentrations of both pepsinogens were determined in patient groups known to have an increased incidence of hyperpepsinogenaemia A.
20 The interactions of X-rays with living tissues were studied in very few laboratories , perhaps because physicists working with the new rays were not usually well informed about the biological problems which might be worth approaching , and biologists lacked the background and training in physics necessary to use X-rays in their work .
21 Second , prices are available that have previously been the privilege of firms with the buying power of the Big Six .
22 In the case of problems with two variables we can approximate the NLP : maximise subject to by taking and writing maximise subject to .
23 First was a reference in the contract to general principles of law , second a reference to arbitration in the case of differences with respect to the interpretation and performance of the contract , and third that the contract ‘ takes on a dimension of a new category of agreements between States and private persons : economic development agreements . ’
24 Thefts of art works are also an international problem , especially poignant in the case of objects with cultural and religious significance .
25 Where villages contain more than one pub these , too , usually reflect the split between locals and newcomers , or , in the case of villages with only one pub , the bars may be socially divided — the locals to the public bar , the newcomers to the lounge , often ‘ modernized ’ in rustic mode for this purpose .
26 Housing is an important component of welfare : it is difficult to imagine anything more damaging to an individual 's welfare than the lack of somewhere to live , and this is especially so in the case of families with young children and elderly people .
27 The new book clarifies the treatment of the rules on the classification of transactions and spells out more fully the information required in the case of transactions with related parties ( previously called Class 4 transactions ) .
28 However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al .
29 Miller comments that in the case of children with learning difficulties , including mentally handicapped children , it may be helpful to calculate mental age using a development test or a standardised test of intelligence and to compare the MLU predicted by chronological age with that predicted using the child 's mental age .
30 What is the evidence for some microenvironmental differentiation of rain forest supporting a diversity of species , each in the case of trees with very specific requirements in terms of nutrients , soil water content and so on ?
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