Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 2 | All the searcher 's other knowledge is in the form of rules about how best to apply this operator , and of facts about states which this operator can be applied to . |
| 3 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 4 | Of course one is teaching new material as well , but it 's the repetition of certain subjects which can be boring , so we 're trying to combine this with material which sees it in application , and in fact for engineers their whole orientation is towards applying ideas and not just to learning how and why nature works — that 's the question that science asks , but engineering aims to apply and harness natural phenomena . |
| 5 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 6 | This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices . |
| 7 | It can vary in precision from quantitative anthropometric surveys to attempts to describe the attributes of products which particular users prefer . |
| 8 | During the Later Middle Ages , there was an increasing shortage of coins which some historians believe led to a trade depression . |
| 9 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 10 | His underground hideout is protected by all manner of nasties whose sole reason for living is to tear Jeremy limb from limb or , failing that , pinch his film ! |
| 11 | The 1980 Constitution , which was put into effect in March 1981 [ see pp. 30619-20 ; 30931 ] , provided for the re-establishment , effective 1989 , of the bi-cameral National Congress , consisting of a Senate of 38 elected and nine appointed members , all of whom were to serve an eight-year term , and a Chamber of Deputies whose 120 members were to be directly elected for a four-year term . |
| 12 | During the 1960s and 1970s , she and her late husband collected mainly Surrealism and Chicago Imagism , and knew a number of artists whose chosen works were in the collection , including Calder . |
| 13 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 14 | Fifth and finally , the NCRA and the block exemption differ in the range of activities which cooperating firms are allowed to undertake , the latter being rather more inclusive than the former while not , however , allowing firms to undertake joint marketing of the product of co-operative R&D projects . |
| 15 | Chomsky suggests that there is a ‘ universal grammar ’ — a limited set of rules which all languages follow . |
| 16 | After considering a variety of cases their main conclusion is that , operationally , the genome ( the genes of an individual animal ) is a common unit of selection and that to refer to individuals as units of selection is not necessarily in error . |
| 17 | THE NUMBER of times their new minister was seen slipping into Jakes and Nell 's brewery in Meadow Lane , Leeds , worried some of his congregation . |
| 18 | Especially well known is Willis 's Learning to Labour , a study of cultures which working class children construct for themselves at school . |
| 19 | In addition to containing the Banking Department of the Bank of England , the monetary sector includes a very large number of institutions whose principal function is to take deposits and to make loans . |
| 20 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 21 | Of course there is a core range of skills which all actuaries must possess in order to qualify . |
| 22 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |
| 23 | The absolute love of books which this shop engenders is hugely joyous . |
| 24 | Those were the broken spears and spinning , shattered wheels of chariots whose mournful death had so affected her as she had tried to protect Scathach from the Scald-crows . |
| 25 | The Stanford School of Medicine ( which has some 8000 animals in stock ) and the University of California-San Francisco claim that ‘ the legislation creates a great irony by increasing the number of animals which each year will be euthanased instead of being transferred to research facilities . |
| 26 | When an experimenter sets up a new group of hens they first fight among themselves . |
| 27 | This task is an important one because of the enormous amounts of program in the hands of organizations whose original writers have long since left without leaving any description of what they had done . |
| 28 | Source of funds Its main source of funds is bonds and loans raised on a commercial basis on the capital markets in the EC and on other international markets also . |
| 29 | Darwin accordingly opened his Notebook B , in July 1837 , with an integrated sequence of entries whose twenty-seven pages of argumentation were to match the structure of Lyell 's exposition of Lamarck . |
| 30 | Highly effective schools were identified , based on the school 's reputation and a checklist of 43 characteristics of effective schools and 12 characteristics of schools which allocated resources in a highly effective manner . |