Example sentences of "patterns of [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LTP can also be induced by more modest stimulus parameters , providing the patterns of stimulation fall within certain critical ranges . |
| 2 | Archaeology has shown that customs recorded here and in later chapters reflect the known social and cultural patterns of north Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC . |
| 3 | This project , which is being carried out by George Bain is concerned with analysing patterns of union growth at an aggregate level and also at the level of individual occupations and industries . |
| 4 | In turn , this picture could be supported by the comparison of the normal patterns of coin loss for urban and rural sites in the early empire ; many rural sites show no appreciable coin loss before the third century . |
| 5 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 6 | They propose to research the patterns of socialization operating within the evangelical-baptist culture and thereby to investigate the effect on educational achievement of the cluster of variables they expect to uncover as emphasis on bible study and abstention from aspects of secular culture . |
| 7 | That is to say , we do not know how these patterns of variation function within the community : we do not know what social meanings the variation carries for in-group members . |
| 8 | Together , these factors contribute to the low percentage of unemployed women claiming unemployment benefit and income support and to the stark gender differences in patterns of income maintenance among unemployed people ( Table 9.2 ) . |
| 9 | When first conceived the 2000 MW electricity link with the UK was envisaged as an energy swopping device to take advantage of the different patterns of peak demand in the two countries . |
| 10 | A sub-group of the Patterns of Service Committee of SAD was formed to explore these issues further . |
| 11 | Current patterns of service need to be critically assessed and feasibility or pilot studies implemented to inform new strategies . |
| 12 | Peter Hall , in Governing the Economy , shows that France and Britain have reflected different patterns of state intervention in the economy . |
| 13 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 14 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The triple alliance between academic subjects , academic examinations and able pupils ensures that comprehensive schools provide similar patterns of curriculum differentiation to previous school systems . |
| 16 | Patterns of child care in England |
| 17 | For us the important point is that the timescale on which continents have drifted about is the same slow timescale on which animal lineages have evolved , and we can not ignore continental drift if we are to understand the patterns of animal evolution on those continents . |
| 18 | What are the patterns of capital investment in the countryside and how do they affect property rights and changes in the use of rural land ? |
| 19 | The project will examine around 10,000 employees records from four different economic sectors ( in banking , steel , railways and the postal services ) between 1870 and 1940 in order to establish the changing patterns of career mobility for diverse categories of workers . |
| 20 | Clearly these are all matters which would repay up-to-date research , since it seems that we may be witnessing important social changes in patterns of family support at the present time . |
| 21 | Analysis of these data together with data from previous city planning pedestrian surveys on other routes enabled the modelling of flows to extract patterns of pedestrian journeys within the centre . |
| 22 | In Britain two examples of cohort studies provide descriptive accounts of patterns of infant care in urban communities . |
| 23 | Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ . |
| 24 | Moreover , the latest available data on more local patterns of employment growth in the 1980s indicate the sharpness of the boundary between the two parts of the country , because they show that , though more rural parts of the North performed well at this time , the greatest concentration of rapid job growth occurred south of a line running from the Severn estuary to Lincolnshire ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 25 | Appropriate statistical models will be developed to test the accuracy of forecasts of technology adoption patterns made in the mid-1980s ; to provide an analysis of the geographical patterns of technology diffusion in relation to the performance of the manufacturing establishments ; and to relate the survival patterns of the establishments to their history of technology adoption . |
| 26 | When the patterns of resource allocation within these unmarried sibling households were examined , it was apparent that the brothers ' higher earnings were making a substantially greater contribution to the housekeeping , thereby creating a degree of financial dependency for their unmarried sisters which was little different to the dependency of the married women carers on their earning husbands . |
| 27 | Indeed the American sociologist Talcott Parsons has stated that the main task of sociology is to examine ‘ the institutionalization of patterns of value orientation in the social system ’ . |
| 28 | This " 4W " approach , according to Auer " takes the unproblematic existence and relevance of patterns of language choice for granted " . |
| 29 | But there is little point in relating speaker variables to patterns of language variation without also attempting to place the analysis within a coherent theoretical framework . |
| 30 | A recent example of a study which attempts to single out a speaker variable of this general type is Holmquist 's ( 1985 ) account of the influence of political orientation on patterns of language variation in a small , homogeneous Spanish-speaking community . |