Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) .
2 The White Paper programme introduced a fundamental policy change to expedite and implement the removal of technical barriers leading to the ‘ harmonisation ’ of standards .
3 The case also confirms the limitations to the patchwork of parental rights provided by the 1981 Act .
4 This was answered in part by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns .
5 Lapis lazuli was only one of several varieties of semi-precious stones used by the Egyptian goldsmith to enrich his products .
6 By the late 1230s he had become one of a small group of professional lawyers practising in the Common Bench in Westminster .
7 One common feature of professions is the claim that their services are more than business transactions and that this aspect of the delivery of professional services justifies in the public interest monopolies that would not be acceptable in the ordinary industrial and commercial arena .
8 In these authorities the function of ‘ filling in ’ important works not ordered by the areas is given to a central resources unit , a team of professional librarians headed by the bibliographical services officer , with authority-wide responsibility for selecting published works of any importance .
9 It arose out of genuine social issues , not because there was a disproportionate number of prejudiced personalities living in the locality .
10 It will not be enough to produce a set of generated addresses corresponding to the number of record storage positions required .
11 The Table also indicates the proportion of lysosomal enzymes released into the supernatant after sedimentation of uncubated pancreatic lysosomes .
12 Figure 3 ( a-d ) indicates the percentages of lysosomal enzymes released into the supernatant after incubation of isolated pancreatic lysosomes with phosphatidylcholine vesicles ( with and without cholesteryl oleate ) and subsequent resedimentation of lysosomes .
13 Measurements of remanent magnetism in a variety of volcanic rocks found on the continents had shown that some were magnetized in the opposite direction to the Earth 's present magnetic field .
14 A department 's share of scarce resources depends upon the skill of its advocates in the use of essentially political tactics such as knowing how much to bid for , how far to pad estimates , how far to over/underspend , how to ‘ read ’ the political climate , how to generate and utilise public support .
15 About 15 mainly Protestant and professional Belfast-based activists have made the trip to Brighton this year , adding their voices to the clamour as the largely indifferent stream of Labour delegates pours from the conference centre at lunchtime .
16 Carswell describes an ‘ informal coterie ’ which met at Crosland 's house , ‘ with a standing membership of Labour sympathisers drawn from the educational world ’ , and to which senior civil servants were occasionally invited .
17 When the rush of Labour MPs came into the Commons after the 1945 election , about two thirds were former students or tutors of the NCLC .
18 When the rush of Labour MPs came into the Commons after the 1945 election , about two thirds were former students or tutors of the NCLC .
19 Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region .
20 Over it is a hanging Garden , which rises by several ascents to the top of the House ; it is bounded on either side with pleasant Bowers , various Trees , and numbers of strange Birds flying in the Air[ ; ] on the Top of a Platform is a Fountain , throwing up Water , which falls into a large Basin .
21 When I was there — force majeure , Colonel — but still time to contemplate — the Great Pyramids , the Sphinx , the tombs , the monuments of strange beasts standing in the desert — a pomp and detail , I know , quite missing from these bare monoliths but nevertheless , in some dark undercurrent of history , connected . ’
22 The string of strange incidents came during the making of The Face Of Tutankhamun , beginning Friday on BBC2 .
23 Then I heard the slap-slap-slap of rubber-soled feet coming across the yard and did what any ice-cool undercover dude would do ; I went into freeze-frame , rabbit-in-headlight shock .
24 A stream of regional studies followed throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s .
25 A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries .
26 the establishment of regional committees modelled on the Greater Manchester Legal Services Committee ( as it then was ) ;
27 They accuse Washington of exploiting regional trends among Third World states , of attempting ‘ to emasculate the positive basis of such processes , to militarise the activity of regional organisations created by the developing countries , transforming them ultimately into pro-Western military blocs ’ .
28 The action removes a large part of economic sanctions imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre .
29 The currency reform followed a series of economic sanctions initiated by the interim government depriving the rebels of fuel , alcohol , tobacco and other items , in order to force the NPFL to conform to the demands of the peace plan brokered in Yamoussoukro , Côte D'Ivoire , in October [ see p. 38518 ] .
30 An increased public workforce engages in a wider range of activities and an increased portion of the population is dependent upon the state for benefits ; both are paid out of an increasing share of economic resources devoted to the public sector .
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