Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adj] [noun] " 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 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 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 ’ .
8 The Department falls within the purview of the Select Committee system in the Commons and also of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Comparing ( 5.29 ) and ( 5.33 ) , we can see that the spot-yield is the geometric mean of the forward rates , .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 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 =
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 ) .
22 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 ) .
23 The expected net earnings is the estimated mean of the vacancy-wage distribution ( see Appendix ) .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Note that the combinations , and , have the same resonant pulsatance which is the geometric mean of the pass-band limits and .
30 Genetic , sex , and environmental effects are eliminated in each within-twins difference and the mean of the these differences is a good measure of the X-effect even if the average response varies greatly over the twin pairs .
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