Example sentences of "[noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finings , a glutinous substance made from the bladder of the sturgeon , is added either at the conditioning stage or when the beer is in cask to fine or clear the beer . |
| 2 | Finings , a glutinous liquid made from the swim bladder of the sturgeon , is also added : this slowly clears the beer of its yeasty deposits . |
| 3 | Many fish specialists believe that in the Devonian all the bony fishes had lungs ( and that the swim bladder of the recent forms was a modification of the early breathing apparatus ) . |
| 4 | Warming to this theme , Ferril suggests that the ‘ egg of life ’ is symbolized by the oval inflated bladder of pigskin and by the oval-shaped outdoor arenas to which worshippers flock in their thousands in search of ‘ an outlet from sexual frustration ’ which they hope to find in the ‘ masochism and sadism ’ displayed before them by a highly-schooled ‘ priesthood of young men ’ . |
| 5 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 6 | You will see Roy , too , ‘ as bald as a bladder of lard ’ because of chemotherapy , hosting the world record indoor Aerobathon at Earl 's Court earlier this year . |
| 7 | You 're like a bladder of lard . |
| 8 | Somewhere in my abdomen was a sac of warm caring , a bladder of emotional nutrition , distended with the urge to burst and engender another 's heart . |
| 9 | There 's a man just gone upstairs , and he 's got a head like a bladder of lard ! ’ |
| 10 | There has been little investigation , however , as to how the metastability of hepatic bile changes in the gall bladder of patients with or without cholesterol gall stones . |
| 11 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 12 | In Musselburgh , there was a beach game ( called fitba ) in which the goals were of little sticks and the ball a dried bladder of seaweed flicked with the middle finger to score . |
| 13 | It aims to finance a minimum level of services , to equalize taxable resources between different local authorities , and to relieve the domestic ratepayer of part of the local tax burden . |
| 14 | A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol . |
| 15 | He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects . |
| 16 | This covers both his penchant for fusion , and his dippy mystic positivism and cosmology of love . |
| 17 | In its ‘ strong ’ form , this emergent cosmology of biographical medicine places the patient and his biography at the centre of ‘ the medical gaze ’ and relegates hospital medicine to a purely technical role ; in its weaker form , the two cosmologies are different , but equal . |
| 18 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 19 | S.U. was to be encouraged , eliminating chains of assessment and decision making which had lain within the purview of the superintendent . |
| 20 | It was a development taking place outside the immediate purview of the great all-European social strata and , to some extent , establishing the sinews of economic life which cut across the areas of dynastic concern . |
| 21 | The first is typically within the purview of the natural sciences and is the subject matter of agricultural engineers and soil scientists , while the second is within the social sciences and is studied by economists and sociologists . |
| 22 | Thus , the purview of search must be broad , but — they say — no guidelines exist as to where the search should be focussed . |
| 23 | In the minds of reformers , however , the service was only one of two policies designed to bring working-class youth under the purview of state agencies and their officials . |
| 24 | Because of the odd separations we make between qualitative and quantitative aspects of planning , enrolments tend to be regarded as the purview of the educational administrator . |
| 25 | In other words , it was the settled view of European law , at that stage in its development , that upon accession , a member state abandoned sovereign control over its affairs to the extent that they fell within the purview of the Treaty of Rome , as interpreted by the European Court of Justice . |
| 26 | Most important of all , he can have no rights at all against his home state — such matters are ‘ domestic ’ and normally entirely outside the purview of international law , a singularly important limitation in the area of human rights where the master criminal is the victim 's own government . |
| 27 | Ceylon Tamils , many of whose ancestors had lived in Sri Lanka for perhaps one thousand years , lived mostly in the Northern and Eastern Provinces , outside the purview of this book . |
| 28 | The former would be the province of the Atlantic military alliance that Britain hoped the United States would create , while the latter were held to fall under the purview of the body established to administer the Marshall Plan . |
| 29 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 30 | This was so because possession of such information placed the firm in a position ‘ superior to other persons [ which made it ] subject to the restraints and the purview of the anti-fraud provisions ’ . |