Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Since children were randomised to treatment group by cluster in the Survival Study , the results , both of the baseline comparisons and the mortality rates , were analysed by a comparison of the mean of the results in each of the 92 vitamin A clusters against the mean of the results in each of the 93 placebo clusters .
2 Since children were randomised to treatment group by cluster in the Survival Study , the results , both of the baseline comparisons and the mortality rates , were analysed by a comparison of the mean of the results in each of the 92 vitamin A clusters against the mean of the results in each of the 93 placebo clusters .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Taking the mean of the contributions from the 68 and 90% population fractions produced the expression :
6 Totemism is the earliest form of religion , according to Freud , and he quotes Robertson Smith 's The Religion of the Semites in which the sacrifice of an animal at the altar is said to be the most fundamental element in religion .
7 Now the 106 member states belonging to CITES ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ) have imposed a ban on the import and export of the skins of spotted cats .
8 There was , however , a very practical reason for the facing of the galleries in these directions .
9 The failure to sign the tripartite agreement was attributed uniquely to the duplicitous tactics of the governments of Britain and France , and his final articles for Ce Soir , a series entitled " La France trahie " , provided Nizan with the opportunity to vent his anger on fascist spies , infiltrators and collaborators undermining the fabric of French society .
10 The gradual acceptance of the germ theory of infection , following the research of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch into viruses and vaccines in the 1870s and 1880s , had resulted in the rapid isolation of the bacilli of all the major infectious diseases .
11 Moreover , the isolation of the men of the wetlands led to inbreeding .
12 Curtailed in his researches he may have been , but Gould still came away from the parched furnace of the scrubs with some of the rarest novelties yet of his collection and a vast number of specimens of every description .
13 Self-conscious clarity about our epistemic methods , in that case , would require a perspicuous representation of the characteristics of the forms of discourse in question .
14 The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation .
15 At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac .
16 Such uncertainty also means that risk characteristics of the actors under consideration become important .
17 They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces .
18 This section outlines some of the main characteristics of the changes in the international economy over the post-war period and starts to draw out some implications for our understanding of the UK 's position in it .
19 By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations .
20 For this passage very accurately and very succinctly encapsulates the characteristics of the Scots of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .
21 The citing of these two varieties will illustrate the basic characteristics of the cheeses of this type — uncut curds treated very gently and never pressed , the whey being allowed to drain naturally .
22 In addition to the changes which flowed from the reorganization of the colleges of education , the work of TEC and BEC , and the initiatives sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission , Wales was subject to two other particularly important developments .
23 Gorbachev 's plans for more radical nuclear weapons cuts were generally received with caution , however , by Western leaders , some of whom reportedly questioned the feasibility of the proposals in the face of the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union .
24 Lord Brougham reminded His Majesty of the misdemeanours of the Stewart kings , which had included ‘ thwarting the prejudices and opposing the wishes ’ of the nation ( quoted in Priestley , 1971 : 159 ) .
25 The association of the beakers with the gods and the spirit world could support a further idea that their purchasers might drink to their chosen deity either in thanks for a favour granted or for one to come .
26 An agreement between the National Actuarial Associations in the EC is being implemented which provides for the mutual recognition by each Association of the members of other EC Associations who wish to pursue the profession in other member countries .
27 The traditional association of the Democrats with minority interests was seen by many Republicans as an issue which would continue to erode the former party 's support in the South , a crucial common factor in the Democratic candidate 's defeat in five of the six presidential elections since 1968 .
28 We should be careful not to exaggerate the suddenness of the change within Whiggery after 1715 ; some of these developments — such as the decline of Whig populism , or the association of the Whigs with the Low Church bishops , did have earlier roots .
29 The Cologne-based Association of the Victims of Stalinism claimed that around 21,000 internees had died after 1945 in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen and that 90,000 people had died in camps set up by Soviet occupying forces in eastern Germany after 1945 .
30 Begin by thinking of the answers to these questions :
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