Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that the left side of the nose splitter has been damaged , perhaps when Baldi had clipped Brundle 's Jaguar in one of his passing attempts , perhaps as a result of ‘ trapped ’ vibration from a high-speed engine misfire . |
| 2 | The sub-committee [ see paragraph 1 ] for a considerable time proposed that the general offence of theft should be made to cover the present offence of obtaining by false pretences under [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 32(1) . |
| 3 | Although they proposed that the coercive power of bishops and ecclesiastics should be abolished , the use of the Book of Common Prayer would be tolerated . |
| 4 | Mr Rutskoy proposed that the 14th army of the former Soviet forces , now under Russian control , should create a buffer zone between the Moldovan security forces and the Russian rebels . |
| 5 | The document proposed that the basic unit of the movement should be the local cumann ( branch ) , with factory-based cumainn wherever possible . |
| 6 | The theory developed to account for these findings , Lapse Theory , proposed that the special effect of sleep loss was to increase the number of lapses in attention , possibly through " microsleeps " . |
| 7 | However , this study demonstrated that the increased prevalence of macrovascular complications was not accounted for by the increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension . |
| 8 | Earlier results demonstrated that the enzymatic formation of m 1 G at position 37 in the anticodon loop of yeast tRNA microinjected into X.laevis oocytes was rather insensitive to changes in the anticodon sequence ( 15 ) . |
| 9 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 10 | They demonstrated that the reduced production of 6-oxo-prostaglandin F 1 α , seen in chronically diabetic rats ( four-six weeks ) could be restored by a dose of insulin ( 8 U/kg/day ) that only partially corrected their plasma glucose and body weight ( Rogers & Larkins , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Pelletier ( 1973 ) demonstrated that the expected decrease of size with increasing depth of water was much stronger in lakes than in oceans . |
| 12 | There had always been cities providing a variety of religious , political , and commercial functions but few contemporaries doubted that the industrial city of the nineteenth century was a new phenomenon . |
| 13 | Several physiotherapists mentioned that the active nature of the job benefited them physically and a number of people with sensory impairments believed that the nature of the work prevented them from becoming isolated . |
| 14 | Even more provocative is a poll that found that the vast majority of American women today do n't even identify themselves as feminists . |
| 15 | Vasquez looked at a large sample of Behaviouralist work in International Relations and found that the vast majority of it worked within these three key assumptions . |
| 16 | They found that the vast majority of bed-wetting cases cleared up very quickly , especially if treated sympathetically . |
| 17 | The survey found that the vast majority of plants on sale were artificially propagated but that there was also a large-scale trade in wild plants . |
| 18 | He found that the greatest number of large-scale strikes broke out when the presidents were known for their populist and pro-worker policies . |
| 19 | In the case of the subject I shall henceforward designate as Subject A I found that the medial end of the clavicle had not yet fused , though fusion had taken place at the acromion and verical border scapula . |
| 20 | These interacting democratic and economic pressures created an environment in which both state and social elites found that the successful pursuit of their objectives , and the management of their respective organizations , were entwined . |
| 21 | Others found that the sheer workload of the course left them unable to develop outside interests , such as reading or the theatre . |
| 22 | Slotting the survey findings together , the authors found that the total number of landfills in America might be anything from 4,462 to 10,467 . |
| 23 | They also found that the average value of was significantly different from y i which implies that the empirical version of the CAPM had a smaller slope than that predicted by the risk-free rate version of the CAPM . |
| 24 | We found that the electrical conductivity of our electrolyte-saturated carbon-bearing granulite samples ( A1 , A2 ) decreased with the application of confining pressures as expected . |
| 25 | We found that the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte-saturated carbon-bearing samples increased more steeply with temperature than that for the electrolyte-saturated carbon-free samples ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 26 | He found that the annual output of U.S. geoscience literature increased by a factor of 10.3 in 70 years , and that the overall growth was exponential , but that the relative output of journals changes with time . |
| 27 | Whitehead found that the psychosocial make-up of patients with IBS in the community who do not see doctors is the same as that of normal people . |
| 28 | Like Yadav and Pope ( 1992b ) , they found that the absolute value of the proportionate mispricing declined as delivery approached . |
| 29 | The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents . |
| 30 | Stemberger found that the great majority of phonological errors occurred with open class lexical items . |