Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The Department falls within the purview of the Select Committee system in the Commons and also of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Comparing ( 5.29 ) and ( 5.33 ) , we can see that the spot-yield is the geometric mean of the forward rates , . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 = |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The expected net earnings is the estimated mean of the vacancy-wage distribution ( see Appendix ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Note that the combinations , and , have the same resonant pulsatance which is the geometric mean of the pass-band limits and . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The basal gastrin value for each subject was measured by taking the mean of the three samples obtained before the start of gastrin releasing peptide infusion . |
| 27 | Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point . |
| 28 | On the ground floor , where the lard wheel of the former mill was driven by the waters of the Rhine , there is a restaurant famous for its cuisine , with a wooden ceiling an arched windows giving a scenic view of the Rhine . |
| 29 | She turned her head slightly , opening her eyes to gaze at the firm , tanned hands clasping the wheel of the super-charged sports car that Ross had hired earlier that afternoon . |
| 30 | Only minutes earlier , the gentle giant was in the bar chatting with friends and fans , the next he 's on stage and screaming himself raw as the tortured madman at the wheel of the flaming incandescence that is Into Paradise live . |