Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many fish specialists believe that in the Devonian all the bony fishes had lungs ( and that the swim bladder of the recent forms was a modification of the early breathing apparatus ) . |
| 2 | Rather , there has been feeling of surprise at just how much energy the ideologists of the Soviet regime expended in the fight against what was then known as ‘ anti-Soviet ’ art . |
| 3 | When asked about the Holocaust , Le Pen , in common with other antisemitic ideologists of the extreme right , questioned whether the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War actually took place . |
| 4 | Moreover , it was by no means a majority view , even amongst the ideologists of the double standard . |
| 5 | The evangelical Hannah More , in her Thoughts on the Importance Or the Manners of the Great to General Society in 1788 , noted that : ‘ Reformation must begin with the GREAT or it will never be effectual . |
| 6 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 7 | The skull , which has a unique heterodont dentition , does not exhibit any of the specializations of the major dinosaurian clades ( Ornithischia , Sauropodomorpha , Theropoda ) . |
| 8 | The heterostracans were associated with the hagfishes , chiefly because they lacked the specializations of the nasohypophysial opening and because they have a single branchial opening ( see below ) . |
| 9 | This was so because possession of such information placed the firm in a position ‘ superior to other persons [ which made it ] subject to the restraints and the purview of the anti-fraud provisions ’ . |
| 10 | It was a development taking place outside the immediate purview of the great all-European social strata and , to some extent , establishing the sinews of economic life which cut across the areas of dynastic concern . |
| 11 | The Department falls within the purview of the Select Committee system in the Commons and also of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 12 | Because of the odd separations we make between qualitative and quantitative aspects of planning , enrolments tend to be regarded as the purview of the educational administrator . |
| 13 | The first is typically within the purview of the natural sciences and is the subject matter of agricultural engineers and soil scientists , while the second is within the social sciences and is studied by economists and sociologists . |
| 14 | Evaluation before operation in all cases included upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , usually with oesophageal biopsy , cineradiography of the cardiac region , standard reflux test , and Bernstein-Baker test . |
| 15 | Comparing ( 5.29 ) and ( 5.33 ) , we can see that the spot-yield is the geometric mean of the forward rates , . |
| 16 | This is achieved in the following way : first calculate the mean of the two adjacent values — the skip mean — thus skipping the middle value ; then calculate the mean of the value to be smoothed and the skip mean . |
| 17 | The gastrin value at each infusion rate of gastrin releasing peptide was measured by taking the mean of the two values at 30 and 45 minutes of each infusion . |
| 18 | A mean of the two with a multiplier of four arrived at a figure of two hundred and thirteen thousand , eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence . |
| 19 | This value is the mean of the group mean of Zollinger-Ellison patients ( 5.9 ) and the group mean of the other subjects together ( 3.5 ) . |
| 20 | Notice that the CDR can be thought of as a weighted mean of the age-specific rates , using age class population numbers as weights , i.e. CDR = |
| 21 | The geometric mean of the anterior and posterior counts was calculated to correct for tissue attenuation . |
| 22 | The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these . |
| 23 | The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these . |
| 24 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 25 | The grand mean of the samples of 4 , which we call , and the mean of the individual observations , x― , are nearly the same and approach each other as the number of samples increases . |
| 26 | The grand mean of the samples of 4 , which we call , and the mean of the individual observations , , are nearly the same and approach each other as the number of samples increases . |
| 27 | Two variables are assumed to vary between the two periods ; unemployment income ( b 1 and b 2 ) and the mean of the vacancy-wage distribution ( and ) . |
| 28 | Expected employment income is similarly split into ( i ) net earnings ( earn — the mean of the vacancy-wage distribution ) and ( ii ) any extra income ( xe — the same as w e from above ) . |
| 29 | The expected net earnings is the estimated mean of the vacancy-wage distribution ( see Appendix ) . |
| 30 | The second period mean of the vacancy-wage distribution is taken to be the same as the first period mean adjusted for wage growth and inflation in the economy as a whole . |