Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) . |
| 2 | Although this is their main role , like other members of the security forces , they are permitted to shoot — but only when they feel their lives , or the lives of others , are in danger . |
| 3 | Members of the family , coached by Nicholas , would relate stories from secular histories or the lives of saints . |
| 4 | Do other sources of law ( including international custom , court decisions , or the opinions of writers ) help to establish some definite laws of war rules about the legality or otherwise of nuclear weapons use ? |
| 5 | In a vein of intimacy the Cubists introduced into their compositions the names of popular songs , the programmes of theatres they had visited , the packets of cigarettes they had smoked , or the headings of newspapers they read — elements which , as Apollinaire put it , were ‘ already drenched in humanity ’ . |
| 6 | The ‘ problem ’ for management or the owners of organizations is to get the structure right and operate it efficiently . |
| 7 | Despite relegation to the Third Division the club kept a playing staff of thirty-eight , twenty-five of whom came from the Barnsley area and were almost all miners or the sons of miners . |
| 8 | They made the following remarks ( per Lord Diplock ) , which I take to apply to all implementing measures , whether they serve to implement provisions of the Treaty or the provisions of directives : |
| 9 | The parallel rakes of badger claws show up on scratching posts , such as fallen logs or the trunks of trees , as well as in the bare earth surrounding a sett or on a badger 's path over a hedgebank. 4 . |
| 10 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 11 | Whether these urges are instinctive or the products of generations of indoctrination it is difficult to decide , but the fact remains , they do exist and survive through the centuries despite the ceaseless disapproval and discouragement of those individuals who would have the world abandon all gods and religion . |
| 12 | writes for an audience far wider than the historian of science , and although these essays may present some challenge for the uninitiated , today 's working scientist ( looking beyond the arguments about supercolliders or the effects of retroviruses on the human population ) could well profit from a dip into this book . |
| 13 | Since our model imposes no restrictions on how reservation wages or the effects of variables change over time , we can let the data decide whether each individual has an increasing/decreasing reservation wage , hazard , etc. over time . |
| 14 | Westerners might dismiss spirit possession as autosuggestion or the effects of worms and other debilitating diseases , but the effect on those who believed in its power could not be disputed . |
| 15 | The agreed version of their origins is that they were lepers or the descendants of lepers , whom no local community would accept as neighbours . |
| 16 | Questions of health or the rights of animals must be regarded sceptically — unless of course the health and human rights of the labourer in the rice paddy or soybean field count for less — which is probably closer to the truth . |
| 17 | Secondly , many of the ‘ interactions ’ are actually mediated by other organisms , usually micro-organisms , whether they be involved in allelopathic phenomena in succession , or are gut microbes in primate stomachs , or mycorrhizae , or fixing nitrogen , or living in ant nests or fig syconia or the guts of termites , or perhaps involved in promoting pig migrations . |
| 18 | More crudely , they are written off as a rampaging mob , victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators . |
| 19 | As with me , they are either ex-crewmen , or the relatives of drivers or school children studying the history of transport or just plain old nostalgia buffs . |
| 20 | Nakasone was unmoved in this breathtakingly preposterous nonsense either by common sense , the protests of the many minorities living in Japan ( Ainu , Okinawans , Koreans , Chinese , Filipinos and others ) , or the judgements of historians on the melange of different peoples who provide the ancestors of the modern Japanese . |
| 21 | Are the standards which the Secretary of State will accept as sufficient to allow a buy-out proposal to go ahead those of TOPS or the standards of schemes run by Stagecoach and other private sector operators ? |
| 22 | But , as here , this mimicry often has the effect of comparing such experts with soothsayers , challenging the contemporary distinction between rational knowledge generated out of numbers and graphs and the irrational predictions of those who ‘ fraudcast ’ on evidence from stars or the entrails of animals . |
| 23 | The majority of sufferers live in their own homes or the homes of relatives , ie in ordinary housing . |
| 24 | From a twentieth century perspective it is often difficult to admire either the management of plot and catastrophe or the sentiments of plays written in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 25 | I have often noticed that in any flock of genuinely free-range chickens there are one or two high-layers : that is , birds which seek out nesting sites in elevated positions , on inaccessible window-ledges or the tops of bale-stacks . |
| 26 | If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend . |
| 27 | The box also contained letters which were hardly letters at all ; small unsigned notes on pieces of paper torn from notebooks or the backs of envelopes . |
| 28 | For only on foot does one detect the subtle rise and fall of ground to which the earliest settlers were so sensitive , or alignments in the town scene that may throw light on some fundamental change of plan : or the names of streets and lanes that set the mind working at once . |
| 29 | The inscriptions give information about the titles of emperors and cities or the names of individuals responsible for the coinage . |
| 30 | Gastric mucosal homogenates were prepared as described earlier , serum samples were collected , and the activities or the concentrations of antioxidants were measured by the methods described next . |