Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provided an arithmetic mean of the H + concentration , rather than a geometric mean , which is calculated by averaging the pH values directly . |
| 2 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 3 | Chip papers strewed the pavement and a buckled can of Sprite lay by the back wheel of the doctor 's Sierra . |
| 4 | The plaintiff pedestrian was struck on the leg by a part of the wheel of the defendant 's lorry , which came off as it was being driven along the road . |
| 5 | The jerk of the Zodiac 's tow rope would have slewed Golden Girl broadside to the wind but Trent was ready with the jib sheet , hauling in hard to balance wind with tow . |
| 6 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 7 | Note that although not required in law , corroboration of the victim 's evidence is looked for in practice . |
| 8 | Such were the risks of the gunman 's trade . |
| 9 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
| 10 | But dialect features are not errors in this sense at all , but are characteristics of a pupil 's native language . |
| 11 | This is because the characteristics of a region 's economy and the supply of air transport usually change slowly and hand-in-hand with one another . |
| 12 | The Task Group on Assessment and Testing said that results should be published using average scores , but as part of a more general report on the school together with information about the socio-economic characteristics of the school 's catchment area . |
| 13 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 14 | There are certainly general characteristics of the parties ' approach to social policies that may help people to decide between them ; and at particular elections ( such as , for example , the general election of 1945 ) one 's social policy commitments may be particularly clear . |
| 15 | The records will also be used to identify the characteristics of the mother 's usage of these same words . |
| 16 | The second view of climatic geomorphology emerged much more in relation to attempts to relate process to climate and to emphasize the interrelation between the morphological , pedological , vegetational and climatic characteristics of the earth 's surface . |
| 17 | These needs and facilities are both part of the pedestrian environment , which might be defined as the interface between the walker 's personal ability to cope with environmental challenge , the location and accessibility of destinations , and the characteristics of the environment en route . |
| 18 | What was in store for them and their young but the fox 's maw , the poisoned grain and the angry scatter-shot of the farmer 's gun ? |
| 19 | After his proposed reorganization of the Hall 's constitution was rejected by Convocation in 1937 , he conceded a formal liberalization of the Hall 's constitution , by another statute , giving more power to the tutors , and freed the Hall from control by Queen 's College . |
| 20 | At a CPSU congress in early July 1990 a reorganization of the party 's leading bodies confirmed the curtailment of their role in national political decision-making [ see pp. 37299 ; 37616 ] . |
| 21 | Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress . |
| 22 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 23 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 24 | " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . " |
| 25 | These voluble oaths echoing across the river have burst upon the ears of the Castle 's occupants , enjoying a little peace and quiet while sitting on the terrace in the afternoon sun , and sparks have flown . |
| 26 | The drab walls superimposed over the plush wallpapering of the Mayor 's office . |
| 27 | It held the faint tang of a man 's aftershave and she hugged it to her for a moment before realising how ridiculous she was being . |
| 28 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
| 29 | There is a clearly written text with an illustrated chronology of the country 's history taking it up to 1992 . |
| 30 | Fully annotated , glossary of technical terms , chronology of the artist 's life and the dates of the pastels , bibliography and exhibitions . |