Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] association " in BNC.

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1 Barker et al also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze .
2 Here Butcher 's union put up a spirited resistance against the " adventurer from Sunderland , doing his utmost to cause a separation or division , by endeavouring to form a rival association " .
3 But the exact nature of the associate does not matter — the mere existence of a CS-X association will interfere with the ability of the pre-exposed flavour to form a new association as is required in both excitatory and inhibitory conditioning .
4 In 1793 , after five more strikes and heavy attention from the hated press gang at the beginning of the war with France , the seamen of the north east appealed to the seamen of the whole nation to form a national association against the press .
5 We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University .
6 The Dutch Parliament thought otherwise , and urged its government to pursue a federal association of states with more vigour .
7 Both in theory and in practice we endeavour to have a representative Association in each Division , and on them — and them only — lies the responsibility of selecting their candidate .
8 To investigate a reported association between dental disease and risk of coronary heart disease .
9 It was clear to the research nurses that they needed the RCN 's administrative and financial backing in order to get a national association off the ground .
10 If no direct association is found , interpretive rules are applied to attempt an indirect association , through one of the frames normally associated with the object but not yet associated with the text .
11 In epidemiological reasoning , several alternatives should be considered to explain an observed association : chance , bias , or confounding might pre-empt true causation .
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