Example sentences of "a [adj] association " in BNC.

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1 He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene .
2 Both in theory and in practice we endeavour to have a representative Association in each Division , and on them — and them only — lies the responsibility of selecting their candidate .
3 The creation of a private association to prosecute offenders and chivvy local and central government into action was a pioneering effort in Victorian middle-class moral interference in the lives of the poor .
4 THE Teams of Our Lady have received official recognition as a private association of the faithful from Rome .
5 This conception of the company as a private association will be referred to as the ‘ legal model ’ .
6 Under previous legislation , it was a defence for the publisher to show that his intention was to publish only to members of a private association or group of which the publisher or distributor was a member .
7 Mineralisation shows a spatial association with underlying granites in the Lake District and the Isle of Man , and with volcanics in North Wales , but in Central Wales and most of the Southern Uplands there is no indication of magmatic involvement .
8 In a study comparing patients after myocardial infarction with controls , we have explored a possible association between coronary heart disease and a variation found in the gene encoding angiotensin-converting enzyme ( ACE ) .
9 Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval .
10 They argue that prolonged exposure ( to an odour in their experiments ) will allow the formation of a context-stimulus association , wholly responsible for the latent inhibition seen at 24 h and partly responsible for that seen at 4 h .
11 The sensitivity to contextual manipulations of the latent inhibition produced by lengthy exposure is certainly consistent with the suggestion that a context-stimulus association is responsible for the effect seen at 24 h and contributes to that seen at 4 h .
12 The blue saddlecloth evidently had a strong association with pain ; which indicated the reason for her earlier unsuccessful training .
13 All the fifteen studies of this reviewed by Box suggest a strong association ( over time or cross-sectionally ) between economic inequality and crime in general ( though this is not true of five studies on homicide specifically ) ( Box , 1987 , pp. 86–98 ) .
14 Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York have discovered a strong association between the condition and the use of roll-on deodorant .
15 ( See TGAT Report , appendix F. ) And a strong association between social background and educational attainment is one of the best-demonstrated findings of educational research .
16 Suicide is an area with a strong association with alcohol misuse .
17 If physical science has such a strong association with masculinity , then the position of the arts , English in particular , is surely more ambivalent .
18 They also provide some support for the thesis proposed by earlier studies of temporary workers ( particularly Meager , 1985 ) , where it has been argued that there is a strong association between growing organisations and users of temporary labour .
19 The National Child Development Study , which looked at the progress of every child born in Great Britain in one week of 1958 , found ‘ a strong association between social class and reading and arithmetic attainment at seven years of age .
20 In line with this , we and others have recently described anal epithelial abnormalities in a substantial proportion of homosexual men with immunosuppression induced by HIV and have documented a strong association between these abnormalities and the presence of human papillomavirus .
21 In Sweden the steepest increase was also observed in the most densely populated cities , indicating a strong association between certain urban lifestyle factors and anal cancer .
22 In 1989 Mattila et al reported the results of a case-control study in which they found a strong association between dental disease and acute myocardial infarction .
23 We found a strong association between gestational age and most respiratory symptoms , especially wheezing most days .
24 This accentuated the contrast between Labour and Conservative voters , with manual socio-economic groups , public service workers , and council house tenants most likely to vote Labour , and a strong association between white-collar owner occupation and Conservative allegiance ( Johnston et al. , 1988 ) .
25 Maternal complications occurring in reputable hospitals in the United States during the 1960s revealed a strong association of childbearing patterns with complications of pregnancy and delivery .
26 A strong association was found between low self-esteem and current adverse circumstances with both relating to an increased risk of developing clinical depression in the following year .
27 Similarly our study found a strong association between dyspepsia and colonisation by Helicobacter pylori in patients taking NSAIDs .
28 The study also shows a strong association between duodenal ulcers , active duodenitis , gastric metaplasia , and H pylori related gastritis regardless of NSAID intake .
29 There was also a strong association between active duodenitis and H pylori positive gastritis , which in turn highlights the potential benefits of eradicating H pylori in minimising duodenal damage in NSAID patients .
30 In conclusion , despite the relative lack of active duodenitis in NSAID patients , a strong association exists between duodenal ulcers , active duodenitis , gastric metaplasia , and H pylori positive gastritis regardless of NSAID intake .
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