Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun sg] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , Pound and her colleagues ( 1985 ) found that a long history of depressive illness in a mother , or a combination of depression and personality problems , was associated with problems ( especially of sleeping ) in her children . |
| 2 | Some of these students became interested in teaching English to ethnic minority groups when , as part of the course , they spent a period of teaching practice in a school with an ESL Language Unit . |
| 3 | Sprint Corp yesterday completed its acquisition of Centel Corp in a share exchange worth some $4,700m . |
| 4 | A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago . |
| 5 | Come on to the poisonous nature of carbon monoxide in a minute . |
| 6 | FISHERMEN today mounted a blockade of Plymouth harbour in a protest over cheap imports of fish . |
| 7 | The objective is to identify and handle the effects of data uncertainty in a GIS by defining uncertainty envelopes to create ‘ credibility regions ’ around the results . |
| 8 | The Monte Carlo simulation technique offers an effective means of identifying and demonstrating the effects of data uncertainty in a number of case studies drawn from the natural and social sciences . |
| 9 | Among its masterpieces are Albrecht Dürer 's early 16th-century print series of ‘ Christ 's Passion ’ , two pictures by William Blake of a curiously enigmatic Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden , and a 19th-century sculpture of Shiva dancing in a circle of flames . |
| 10 | The Anatomy of Job Loss : The How , Where and Why of Employment Decline , by Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan ( London , Methuen ; 1982 ) , is a study of job loss in a range of manufacturing sectors . |
| 11 | If a retailer wants to find out the value of sales for each metre of shelf space in a shop , he needs first to find out what the TOTAL shelf measurement is , by measuring each shelf and adding the lengths together . |
| 12 | Election 1992 : Result of reform inquiry in a year |
| 13 | Baker points to " significant " outstanding differences between Syria and Israel , especially on the question of UN involvement in a conference , and reiterates his view that " nobody can impose peace upon the parties " . |
| 14 | Pupils can be introduced to short pieces of period music in a history lesson . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State indicates the level of community charge deemed necessary for each local authority to provide an acceptable standard of local services , He also retains the power to limit the level of community charge in a manner akin to the former ‘ rate-capping ’ powers . |
| 16 | To add 2 lb ( just under 1 kg ) of body fat in a day you need to eat about 7000 calories in addition to the normal amount you need to maintain body weight ( about 2000 calories ) . |
| 17 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 18 | This effect of site symmetry in a crystal is then compounded with the effects due to the presence of more than one molecule in the unit cell , which is the basic vibrating unit in a crystal . |
| 19 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 20 | A change of diagnosis was regarded as one in which manometry resulted in a diagnosis that had not previously been made by other investigations even if clinically suspected — for example a diagnosis of nutcracker oesophagus in a patient presenting with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 21 | At nine o'clock , looking across the green to the Baileys ' house , stood the village school , a sturdy one-storey building of Cotswold stone in a playground of generous proportions . |
| 22 | The effects of solvent absorption in a solution may be partially compensated by comparing the transmittance of matched cells , one containing solution and the other pure solvent , ideally in a double-beam spectrometer . |
| 23 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 24 | He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death . |
| 25 | Majestic Eagle laid claim to easiest winner of the season when cruising six lengths clear of Bahrain Star in a Salisbury minor event last month . |
| 26 | The amount of water vapour in a battery depends on the concentration of sulphuric acid in the solution . |
| 27 | Over the board , flashes of Fischer genius in a match of fluctuating quality and fortunes helped the American Claimant to the world champion crown to a stunning victory . |
| 28 | A 1–2 m thick black shale horizon with about 2 per cent Pb-Zn ( but 10 per cent Pb over 4 m of drill core in a fold nose ) was found by RioFinex near Launceston ( MEG 223 ) . |
| 29 | Ravaged by sea-winds , Strath needed 24 tons of replacement sand in a year . |
| 30 | A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell . |