Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enables oxygen to be stored for several minutes , and during prolonged periods of submersion an accessor valve between the heart ventricles can be opened to bypass the function of the lungs . |
| 2 | Separate cooking areas for different types of food a pastry chefs comer , a vegetable preparation area and so on . |
| 3 | At the outbreak of war in 1914 , Strahan supervised the preparation of a set of vital military geological maps of Belgium and other war zones ; and with the cessation of foreign sources of supply an exhaustive inventory of native sources of supply of strategic minerals ( ranging from barytes to sand ) was needed . |
| 4 | Norris , still clad in his white lab coat , was one of those medical students whom fate has seemingly marked out to spend the bulk of their studies and initial training suffering from quite stupendous hangovers incurred through the intake of near-fatal levels of alcohol the night before , and their subsequent professional careers sternly finger-wagging at any member of the general public who dares to consume over the course of a week what they themselves had been perfectly happy to sink during the average evening . |
| 5 | But there can be no doubt that for the discovery of certain parts of truth the wicked and unhappy are in a more favourable position and are more likely to succeed ; not to mention the wicked who are happy — a species about whom the moralists are silent … |
| 6 | Policy analysis needs to be concerned with a flow of interrelated policies , with abrupt changes of direction a comparatively rare occurrence . |
| 7 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 8 | would talk for instance [ Richard later wrote ] of the ‘ Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ’ and hold us all , a group of young boys , spellbound as he unfolded with conscious looks of wonder the marvellous courage of the man Eliot to write the poem ‘ Prufrock ’ at the time he did . |
| 9 | With increasing rates of secretion an increasing fraction of the change in fluid transport caused by the nematode was mediated by nervous mechanisms . |
| 10 | Water pollution control shares with other forms of regulation a broad legislative mandate and an unspecified task of implementation . |
| 11 | Compared with other types of organisation the potential advantages of bureaucracy may seem apparent . |
| 12 | These are usually irregular , but in extensive flows of basalt a highly regular hexagonal jointing pattern is sometimes produced giving rise to the kind of vertical columnar basalt outcrops which form the Giant 's Causeway in Northern Ireland , UK . |
| 13 | In succeeding years of wartime the annual conference continued to take place , though not at the seaside and not usually for a full week . |
| 14 | Based on present levels of production the usage is 8,000 hours a year but as from next year this is expected to rise to 12,000 hours a year if the sales forecasts are correct . |
| 15 | Horace Dall and George Alcock are two lively old men who both still actively contribute to various areas of science The Universal explorer and spare-time inventor |
| 16 | If trees are felled in the hope of gaining extra land , a river is likely to move out to take that land , and on certain types of river a great deal more besides . |
| 17 | The manager should explain to other heads of department the importance of maintaining even distribution of staff throughout the year . |
| 18 | At this point it is sufficient to mention that it is accepted that there were differences between the real and reported rates , but that for some crimes over certain periods of time the difference was fairly constant . |
| 19 | In contrast , data from life insurance applicants suggested that for comparable degrees of hypertension the impact on mortality was greater in diabetics , and particularly marked in those aged less than 40 years ( Goodkin , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | Pepys pointed out that , while the CRP concentration rises both in active ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease , for comparable degrees of severity the increases in CRP are much greater in Crohn 's disease . |
| 21 | For certain classes of property the Government has laid down rules about the level of standard charge . |
| 22 | This then was the method or system of building a railway wagon at Wolverton , of the 12 ton covered goods type : for other types of wagon the building procedure was adjusted . |
| 23 | Although it is generally aimed at specific styles of mineralisation a wide range of elements are determined and a variety of techniques used . |
| 24 | At high levels of constraint the compromise pocket forms and as the level increases the pocket spreads . |
| 25 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 26 | Erikson suggests that at different phases of life an individual faces a particular psycho-social problem which needs to be resolved before moving on to the next phase . |
| 27 | When looking at military applications of AI the only field likely to yield viable and practical results in the next few years is that of expert systems . |
| 28 | Climbing pressure ridges formed by ancient blocks of ice the size of Yorkshire grinding together , he decided to ditch his skis . |
| 29 | By other forms of reproduction an image may be more or less degraded , so that nothing can be learnt from them . |