Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In several species , including humans , colonic VFA absorption in vivo is associated with HCO 3 - secretion and a lower luminal pCO 2 than in the absence of VFAs . |
| 2 | Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts : |
| 3 | They are well practised in choosing what they believe to be the right firm to handle a particular assignment and nowhere is this more clear than in the area of specialisation . |
| 4 | In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . |
| 5 | Even before Vivien 's committal , Eliot had been much more free than in the days of his marriage ; in the summer of 1935 he was with Emily Hale in Gloucestershire , and also visited the Fabers in Wales . |
| 6 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 7 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped to irregularly hexagonal and broadly contiguous except on the tips of the arms . |
| 8 | Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species . |
| 9 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 10 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 11 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 12 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 13 | Mr Daly said the hostel had proved to be popular because of the range of facilities offered . |
| 14 | Although the traditional approach is precisely this , Professor Preston argues that it is no longer adequate because of the effects of secularisation on Western society . |
| 15 | Was this because of the wording of the items or the unfamiliarity of the task ? |
| 16 | Capitalists exploit the workers by depriving them of this surplus value and they do this because of the nature of property in capitalist societies , where the means of production are controlled by the capitalist . |
| 17 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 18 | The junior Dog is a very small constellation , but is unmistakable because of the presence of Procyon , which is one of the nearest of the bright stars ; it is 11½ light-years away , and is the equal of 11 Suns . |
| 19 | However , it is possible that the dust ages are erroneously high because of the loss of the initial isotopes other than by radioactive decay ( section 2.1.15 ) . |
| 20 | Eighteenth-century trumpet parts were written very high because of the impossibility of obtaining scale-wise passages on the natural instrument except amongst the very high harmonics of the series . |
| 21 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 22 | Lipoproteins come in various shapes and sizes but most of the cholesterol is carried in rather small particles called low density lipoproteins or LDL — so-called because of the preponderance of lipid to protein , giving the particles a low density . |
| 23 | Gas supplies are also very much a political football in view of the high level of USSR supply but here the situation is less unstable because of the length of supply contracts involved . |
| 24 | It would appear from Donoghue v. Stevenson and Australian Knitting Mills Ltd. v. Grant [ 1936 ] A.C. 85 that it would be immaterial whether at the time of fault the victim was in existence or not , so long as the victim was a member of a class which might reasonably and probably be affected by the act of carelessness . |
| 25 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 26 | Mr Smith encouraged forming an open and honest relationship with the bank , presenting this as in the interests of both parties . |
| 27 | The past 10 years has seen an explosion in our knowledge of the molecular biology of cancer , and nowhere has this been as exciting as in the field of large bowel cancer . |
| 28 | There seems to be some confusion in the minds of some as to the purpose of seeking consent from a patient ( whether adult or child ) or from someone with authority to give that consent on behalf of the patient . |
| 29 | ‘ A member : I , too , have talked to many airline employees about this matter , and I am not completely clear as to the purport of my Hon. |
| 30 | Para 5.2.6 We are not clear as to the meaning of the final sentence in this paragraph . |