Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Statistical analysis was performed using the χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction , the Fisher 's exact test and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test , each applied according to its own indications . |
2 | We used Student 's t test to compare the basic data of age , volume of blood transfusion , haemoglobin , and length of hospital stay ; χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction and Fisher 's exact test when appropriate to compare the haemostatic effects among the two groups of patients . |
3 | Other theories concentrate on technological changes or on firms ' investment in inventories to explain the cycles . |
4 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
5 | Yet , given their potential influence , few outstanding sportsmen have used their position to challenge the notion of the legitimacy of sport as a way out and a method of social mobility , and few have pointed out that blacks ' continued domination of sport is more a reflection of limitations in other areas of a society permeated with racism than of blacks ' talent . |
6 | The Crown 's interest was above all the defence of the land rather than of villagers ' property rights . |
7 | Assessment of achievements in English should therefore be primarily concerned with such understanding and skills , rather than with pupils ' knowledge about and competence in using IT and media facilities as such . |
8 | The parable may refer to the fact that in Jesus ' time the Zealots ( this was a name given to nationalists ) were stirring up the peasants to revolt against such landlords . |
9 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
10 | The main difference is that in Africanus ' case Titius is a trustee and construed also as the beneficiary of a further trust , while in Scaevola 's Seia is coheir , trustee of one trust , and beneficiary of another . |
11 | Nowhere was this clearer than in moralists ' take-up of scientific logic and a language of rationality . |
12 | As regards tragedy , spiritually the city 's focal point , Euripides was not and could not be a spiritual guide as Aeschylus had once been , although the need was , no doubt , greater than in Aeschylus ' time . |
13 | Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB . |
14 | Either way , expect to be fêted , fussed and fawned over this month — and for goodness ' sake allow yourself to enjoy it ! |
15 | And for goodness ' sake let's get Fiver to come with us . |
16 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
17 | The result was 1989 's shimmering ‘ Tears ’ , issued on ffrr in London and through Knuckles ' Def Mix in America . |
18 | Initially , the effect of Leo III crowning Charles was to greatly strengthen papal power , though this was not fully apparent until after Charles ' death . |
19 | It was nothing but the stench of dead , rotting rats and of bats ' dung . |
20 | In this definition , and throughout Parsons ' analysis , ‘ power ’ is identified with ‘ legitimate authority ’ , and this authority itself is assumed to arise from some kind of pervasive agreement upon the collective purposes of society as a whole . |
21 | Employers could contract ‘ occupational groups ’ of employees out of SERPS and into employers ' provision ( see Groves , 1983 ) . |
22 | Her books included The House of Life ( 1878 ) ; An Atlas of Anatomy ( 1879 ) ; Lynton Abbott 's Children ( 1879 ) , a novel which was published anonymously ; Animal Physiology for Elementary Schools ( 1882 ) ; Readings in Social Economy ( 1883 ) ; Harriet Martineau ( 1884 ) ; Hughes 's Natural History Readers ( 1884 ) ; and In Ladies ' Company ( 1892 ) . |
23 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
24 | The reasons for this discrepancy probably lie in the different modes of service organization and in practitioners ' rationing of their own services , given scarcity of time , but other unexplored factors ( related to diagnosis or accommodation for example ) may also enter here . |
25 | And erm I think we 'll be going back to the kind of erm conditions that there were in the Victorian age and in Dickens ' age . |
26 | The reasons why this type of job has arisen in agencies are complex , and reflect weaknesses both in existing agency staffing and structure and in clients ' ability to brief their agencies in the right way . |
27 | The research aims to study the responses of heads , teachers and children in infant schools and departments to the introduction of the national Curriculum and to examine its impact on the curriculum and pedagogy of the infant school and on pupils ' school experience . |
28 | And to Engels ' accusation of Panslavism , he replied : |
29 | According to the medieval Rosicrucian system , and to Paracelsus ' work before that , gnomes are one of the four ELEMENTAL spirits of earth ; namely the SYLPHS of the air , the SALAMANDERS of the fire , the NYMPHS or NEREIDS of the water , and the pygmies or gnomes of the earth . |
30 | The old Port Mill still forms an important part of that complex , and to Bensons ' credit , is beautifully maintained and landscaped . |