Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] association [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another study has shown a positive association between gastric cancer and exposure to coal dust in those miners who smoked .
2 Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing .
3 Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist !
4 Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site .
5 Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 .
6 CRE chairman , Nick Seaton , has accused the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers of acting illegally by instructing its members to boycott all Standard Assessment Tests .
7 Derek Angol , the undefeated Gravesend cruiserweight , has ended a six-year association with Terry Lawless and will now be promoted by Frank Warren .
8 Other ‘ declinists ’ helped found the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 , meeting in different cities each year for lectures and discussions in various ‘ sections ’ ; but Swainson played no part in it , thus avoiding the power struggles in which gentlemen of science usually with Cambridge connections came in effect to direct the organization .
9 Probabilistic models have commonly been used to investigate the semantic associations between words .
10 The tower at Radway was based on the medieval Guy 's tower at Warwick Castle , but it was also intended to underline the historical associations of the place : standing on the spot where King Charles I is supposed to have raised his standard before the battle of Edgehill , it was designed to house a statue of the British hero Caractacus and was decorated with emblems of the Saxon heptarchy , and its ceremonial opening took place on the anniversary of the death of Oliver Cromwell .
11 She came to Queen 's Park about 11 years ago , having had a long association at Findlay Memorial Tabernacle .
12 The ozone pollution problem may have had a long association with southern California but it has now become a very serious problem in the Texas Gulf coast , the north-east corridor , and other heavily populated regions ( figure 8.11 ) .
13 As long as those who use the concept of structured dependency continue to make the automatic association of retirement with dependency , and of work with independence , they will continue to bolster conservative notions of the competitive work ethic .
14 Although such correlations do not amount to conclusive evidence of a causal relationship between opioid use and social deprivation , they do indicate a stable association between variations in the two phenomena over time .
15 Several studies have reported a positive association with ischaemic heart disease , but after correction for the effect of cholesterol serum triglyceride does not appear to be an independent risk factor ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) .
16 Barker et al also failed to find a significant association between birth weight and wheeze .
17 Previous studies by others have shown a close association between high levels of pre-S1 or pre-S2 in serum with hepatitis B virus-DNA in serum , in keeping with the observation that pre-S1 and pre-S2 are the essential components of complete virion .
18 Several studies have shown a close association between liver inflammatory activities and membrane associated pre-S1 or pre-S2 in chronic hepatitis B virus infection , suggesting that membranous pre-S1 or pre-S2 might be a possible target antigen in T-cell mediated lysis of hepatocytes .
19 We have found a significant association with alcohol intake and with alcohol markers such as mean corpuscular volume and the asparate aminotransferase:alamine amunotransferase ratio , but not with the duration of the alcohol intake .
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 Epidemiological data based upon population studies have indicated a positive association between dietary cholesterol and colorectal cancer .
22 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 .
23 Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York have discovered a strong association between the condition and the use of roll-on deodorant .
24 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 ) .
25 We have described the unusual association of Riedel 's thyroiditis , retroperitoneal fibrosis , and sclerosing cholangitis .
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