Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The addition of salbutamol caused a roughly parallel fall in plasma potassium concentration and increase in heart rate , tremor amplitude , and QTc interval confirming a largely additive effect ; the dose response curves for salbutamol seemed to converge at higher doses .
2 The chemical processes involved are usually associated with hydration ( see Section 6.2.3.1 ) and the addition of water plays a significant role in the physical breakdown of rock .
3 The data presented in Table 2 show that the addition of distamycin produces a very similar increase in T m values for both duplex 1 and duplex 4 i.e. the drug exerts a very similar stabilising effect on both duplexes .
4 Thus the addition of phosphatidylcholine prolonged the nucleation time by two mechanisms : ( A ) shift of biliary cholesterol to the more stable carrier ( non-vesicular ) and ( B ) a decrease in the cholesterol/phospholipids ratio of the metastable carrier ( vesicles ) .
5 Glasses containing large amounts of silica melt at very high temperatures ; silica fuses at 1713 o C. The addition of soda has the opposite effect .
6 The willingness of painters and poets to improve a prospect through various techniques is related to the ideology of improvement underlying the enclosure movement .
7 The ideology of amateurism discouraged the notion that sport was an appropriate sphere of state activity .
8 But he does expect the weakness of sterling to have a beneficial effect in the coming year .
9 The party 's most important electoral commitment was the creation of 800,000 jobs over four years , and although it was to fall lamentably short of the aim , the reduction of unemployment remained an important point of reference for the party in power and for its political allies ( see , e.g. , PSOE 1983 : 43–4 ) .
10 Claudia had concluded that the rituals of life have a social significance : they are what makes us human .
11 Now the veil of ignorance deprives the persons in the original position of the knowledge that would enable them to choose heteronomous principles .
12 See also the case Casey v Breachwood Motors Ltd ( Times Law Reports 29 July 1992 ) , where the court lifted the veil of incorporation to allow the plaintiff to proceed against the second company .
13 In places like Milton Street the variety of housing prohibits the use of ‘ beacon ’ houses .
14 Basically , this is achieved by the provision of software to facilitate the updating of and access to such data .
15 Article 17 — the provision of aid to assist a wider range of joint investment schemes — should include reference to environmental acceptability so that any proposals ( apart from prior approval in NPs and obligatory consultation in SSSIs ) require vetting by ADAS with conservation implications as an acceptance criterion .
16 The provision of information presupposes a two-way exchange both as a concomitant of genuine partnership and in order that LEA decisions and information are grounded in an exact and sympathetic understanding of schools ' situations and needs .
17 Client will procure that appropriate arrangements are made for the provision of finance to meet the costs of acquiring shares pursuant to the Offer .
18 The change of heart followed an outcry by the public who lodged objections to the scheme .
19 An editorial declared that the change of name signified a " steady trend towards a wider outlook " and heralded the fact " that teaching technology appears to be advancing on separate fronts and that these fronts could well be brought more closely together . "
20 Speed wants to come inside ( he really wants to play central mid-field , Strachan does not have the change of pace to beat a full-back any more .
21 The change of leader meant a change of plan , for the Earl Marischal had agreed with Alberoni , before setting out , that the expedition would march at once on Inverness , to await there news of Ormonde 's proposed landing in England .
22 In both the instances we have looked at , the speaker uses the change of code to animate a persona which is not his/her own , but that of a character in a narrative .
23 Perhaps the least interesting is the possibility that the change of context modifies the way in which the CS is perceived , either because of some change in the physical nature of the signal ( the properties of an auditory cue , for instance , are likely to change according to the shape of the space in which it is presented ) or because there is some change in the way the cue impinges on the animal ( if different contexts promote different patterns of orienting behaviour , the same cue , defined physically , may be experienced differently in the contexts ) .
24 The change of strategy to ensure the firm 's survival has meant some hard decisions for managing partner Hugh Aldous .
25 ‘ I say , ’ said Hilary Frome , as the shrieks of laughter reached a crescendo .
26 1.14 The programmes of study delineate the ground which must be covered if pupils are to achieve their best in relation to the attainment targets .
27 The existence of money gives the consumer greater freedom of choice than could ever exist under a barter system .
28 The answer clearly depends on what is meant by ‘ burden ’ and how the existence of debt affects the behaviour of the economy .
29 The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government .
30 They reject not only the Soviet claim that October and the overthrow of capitalism blazed the trail for which all humanity is destined , but the very notion of laws governing the historical process .
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