Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Department falls within the purview of the Select Committee system in the Commons and also of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Comparing ( 5.29 ) and ( 5.33 ) , we can see that the spot-yield is the geometric mean of the forward rates , . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 = |
| 11 | The geometric mean of the anterior and posterior counts was calculated to correct for tissue attenuation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The expected net earnings is the estimated mean of the vacancy-wage distribution ( see Appendix ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sera were tested at a 1:40 dilution and bound antibody was detected with alkaline phosphatase conjugated goat antihuman gamma chain specific antibody. 3 SD above the mean of the negative controls was considered positive . |
| 21 | For the period 1974–8 , populations for 1976 were used , estimated as the mean of the relevant age specific numbers from the 1971 and 1981 censuses . |
| 22 | The improvement in the mean of the pure tone audiometric thresholds at six frequencies from 250 Hz to 8 kHz was calculated for each follow up time . |
| 23 | The squared limits of the 95% confidence intervals for the mean of the square root transformed values of the blood transfusion donors and resulted in the upper and lower normal value for serum pepsinogen A and C. For the pepsinogen A:C ratio these limits and the mean have been calculated with values transformed by the decadic logarithm . |
| 24 | Note that the combinations , and , have the same resonant pulsatance which is the geometric mean of the pass-band limits and . |
| 25 | Director of corporate Affairs and Company Secretary Harold Bolter got behind the wheel of the blue and white juggernaut and welcomed the hi-tech unit , saying it was exactly what BNFL needed to take its nuclear message to the public . |
| 26 | She turned her head slightly , opening her eyes to gaze at the firm , tanned hands clasping the wheel of the super-charged sports car that Ross had hired earlier that afternoon . |
| 27 | Only minutes earlier , the gentle giant was in the bar chatting with friends and fans , the next he 's on stage and screaming himself raw as the tortured madman at the wheel of the flaming incandescence that is Into Paradise live . |
| 28 | Pictures by ALLAN MILLIGAN Chust sublime : Para Handy at the wheel of the Vital Spark with Macphail the engineer All aboard : from left , Sean Scanlon as Dougie the Mate , Rikki Fulton as Macphail , Gregor Fisher as Para Handy and Andrew Fairlie as Sunny Jim |
| 29 | ‘ I hope you did n't mind , ’ said Lesley Paviour blithely , swinging the wheel of the old Morris nonchalantly as they negotiated the sharp turn by the downstream bend of the Comer , not very far from where Gerry Boden 's body had been towed ashore . |
| 30 | Then came a sudden , dreadful volley from their left flank , from the wheel of the banqueting hall . |