Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus diminution of prostacyclin production and stimulation of platelet aggregation both mediated by lipid peroxides could contribute to thrombosis on atheromatous plaques . |
| 2 | " It might perhaps be worth considering who controls your supply of coolie labor now . |
| 3 | The inhabitants of Exmoor Forest also complained that : |
| 4 | Loch Cairnbawn carries the waters of Eddrachillis Bay deep into the mainland 's interior , penetrating the coastal hills , becoming constricted at a narrow strait , and then widening and dividing into Loch Glendhu and Loch Glencoul , both inurned amongst wild mountains . |
| 5 | Sacha was a victim of skin cancer early in his career and suffered from cancer of the thyroid in 1971 . |
| 6 | Petfish can be fed three per cent of their body weight daily , and even the most towering tub of stick food quickly goes . |
| 7 | I 'll give her a face and a heck of hair wash tonight but |
| 8 | Patrick obediently closed his eyes , feeling the sun warm and orange on his eyelids , hearing the click of the old woman 's scissors , feeling cold strands of hair drift occasionally across his face . |
| 9 | The leaders of populist movements may be much more dependent upon receiving continuous high levels of electoral and political support , and hence unable to prevent mass demands turning the normal process of elite competition temporarily into a monistic system of domination . |
| 10 | Exponents of the external control variant of elite theory thus differ considerably over who does the external controlling ( see Figure 4. 1 ) . |
| 11 | She did not immediately issue a new notice , an omission which in effect granted the USA the use of Subic Bay indefinitely under a 1947 military agreement , which the Philippine government said remained in force . |
| 12 | Jacques Delors , later to be minister of finance in Mitterrand 's socialist government , records that when Monnet first gathered the steel masters together and demanded the reconstitution of prewar production capacity within four years , ‘ Two or more cases of heart seizure reportedly ensued ’ ( Delors , 1978 , p. 15 ) . |
| 13 | Each additional risk factor raises your chances of heart disease very substantially . |
| 14 | ( Note that what matters is when a gene affects survival and fertility , not when it is expressed ; for example , a gene which is expressed early in the development of the heart might increase the chance of heart disease much later in life . ) |
| 15 | Even Robert Bakker , a paleontologist now at Colorado University and one of the most original and interesting of dinosaur academics , has not , I suggest , given the subject of dinosaur size as much attention as it deserves , and consequently many of his arguments concerning metabolism , which we will examine in the next chapter , remain fatally flawed . |
| 16 | The foolscap sheets of Croxley Script ( ‘ the all purpose paper ’ ) were by now beginning to look like an inventive infant 's representation of woodland scenery illicitly sketched on top of pages already thick with words . |
| 17 | Distant rolls of thunder belch ominously . |
| 18 | In the most naked exercising of user power yet , General Motors Corp and General Electric Co Inc are discussing combining their personal computer procurement to screw vendors down to even better terms than are currently available in today 's climate of bitter price war , the Dallas Morning News reports . |
| 19 | ‘ Fole and Rattletrap go to the Crypticole Market — it is held infrequently and its location must of necessity change often , owing to its nature . |
| 20 | A lovely time , ’ she added , realising she 'd had almost three lovely hours of afternoon time too . |
| 21 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 22 | ‘ Even as the world developed its enormous appetite for our end-products and chemical building blocks , we had this habit of building capacity faster than demand . |
| 23 | The nature of building work normally necessitates the use of a gang . |
| 24 | you 're losing your concentration , it 's very interesting but materials list there , types of building list there and I 'm going to the loo and I 'll come back . |
| 25 | The variability of patterns resulting from the use of different volumes of hydrogen peroxide also argued against further use of this technique . |
| 26 | I would need to revise my knowledge of patient/client confidentiality so that I may not inadvertently be in breach of proper professional conduct . |
| 27 | VAUXHALL has won its biggest ever contract with the Ministry of Defence worth over £17 million at showroom prices for 1,947 diesel-engined Novas and Astras . |
| 28 | Inspired probably by the continuing ill-feeling towards himself , Gurney had attempted to leave the Grammar School by applying for the Mastership of Wellington College early in 1855 , but the Goldsmiths declined to supply a testimonial of his conduct until he had given up his post , and his application therefore lapsed . |
| 29 | Textbooks of computer science often illustrate the power of what they call " recursive " programming with a simple tree-growing procedure . |
| 30 | Transactions at PAS are done ‘ by the book ’ , no sign of computer technology here , even the tea machine is configured to take pre-decimal currency , with a cup of tea costing 4d . |