Which preposition to use with apparatus

for Occurrences 146%

The travellers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great projector: his breed of cattle: his apparatus for cookingHe is taken dangerously ill.

of Occurrences 136%

He must give these up the moment he enters the martial ranks, and reduce his apparatus of living to the smallest possible quantity.

in Occurrences 53%

The essential parts of a special type of mine of recent design consist of (1) the mine proper, comprising the explosive charge and detonating apparatus in a spherical case; (2) a square-shaped anchor chamber, connected with the mine by a length of cable; (3) a plummet-weight used in placing the mine in position, connected with the anchor chamber by a rope.

by Occurrences 18%

Foiled in the attempt to lure Kossuth from his duty, the Government resorted to violence, seized the lithographic apparatus by means of which Kossuth planned to multiply his manuscript newspaper, and gave directions to the postmasters to detain and open all those sealed packages which were supposed to contain the reports.

with Occurrences 14%

By using any kind of material by which ten can be made plain as a higher unitbundles of sticks or tickets, Sonnenschein's apparatus, Miss Punnett's number scheme, or the new Montessori apparatus with its chains of beads: the material used is of no great consequencechildren should be able to deal as easily with tens as with ones, and there is no need for little formal sums which have no meaning.

to Occurrences 11%

From Philadelphia, Morse removed his apparatus to Washington, where he was permitted to demonstrate its operation before President Van Buren and his Cabinet.

on Occurrences 10%

" A short pause and again the receiving apparatus on the Queen Mary clicked sharply.

at Occurrences 8%

A Cairo specialist also places his X-ray apparatus at the service of the hospital patients.

from Occurrences 7%

" Adonaïs coughed in his cravat, and hinted,"How would it do to call him 'Barnum Dalton'?" Adonaïs appeared shocked at himself, and swallowed a minim of wine to cleanse his vocal apparatus from the stain of so coarse an illustration.

out Occurrences 4%

We had not come prepared for actual operating, and the local equipment was meagre, but we succeeded in improvising a transfusion apparatus out of various odds and ends.

through Occurrences 3%

The fluid pulp is carried by means of a helix, i, to a revolving perforated drum at e. From this, the milky starch flows into the jacket, N, while the pulp (ligneous fibers) makes its exit from the apparatus through the aperture, n, and falls into the reservoir, o.

under Occurrences 3%

It was necessary to have a means of varying the temperature of the water projected, according to the season and temperature of the air, to have an instantaneous and simple method of regulating the apparatus, that could be understood by any operator, and to have the apparatus under the control of the person holding the nozzle.

into Occurrences 3%

A power behind the Government got the official executive apparatus into its hand, and the elections to Parliament ceased to be free.

before Occurrences 2%

Alden kept complete silence as he sat down, crossed one leg over the other and began to study the complex apparatus before him.

as Occurrences 2%

The concept of the endocrine-vegetative apparatus as the determinant of normal and abnormal behaviour, emotional reactions and disturbances of power should in time cause even the most fanatic of the psychanalysts to recognize the functional basis of the mental acrostics they are so fond of dissecting.

within Occurrences 2%

One of the great objections to wireless telegraphy has been the inability to make it secret, since the ether waves circle from the centre in all directions, and any receiving apparatus within certain limits would be affected by the waves just as the station to which the message was sent would be affected by them.

than Occurrences 2%

In the metaphorical language of the old psychology, the threshold value, that is the strength or loudness of stimulus sufficient to make itself felt or heard, is less for the vegetative apparatus than for the brain.

without Occurrences 1%

If it is wished to lift the accumulator from its chest for any verification, hooks passing between the plates seize hold of the rods, and thanks to the rigidity of the antimony lead, they effect the removal of the apparatus without bending the rods in the least.

above Occurrences 1%

To get out the old water-cock, it was necessary to make the ship heel so much on her larboard side as to raise the outside of this apparatus above water.

after Occurrences 1%

Seume, a German author, says, in his journal, "To-day I threw my powder apparatus out of the window, when will come the blessed day that I shall send the shaving apparatus after it.

against Occurrences 1%

A Spaniard named Solis had built a small mill below New Orleans in 1791 and was making sugar with indifferent success when, in 1794-1795, Etienne de Boré, a prominent Creole whose estate lay just above the town, bought a supply of seed cane from Solis, planted a large field with it, engaged a professional sugar maker, and installed grinding and boiling apparatus against the time of harvest.

along Occurrences 1%

Since with various birds and mammals the box form of apparatus had proved most satisfactory, I planned the primate apparatus along similar lines, aiming simply to adapt it to the somewhat different motor equipment and destructive tendencies of the monkeys.

around Occurrences 1%

3; d, upper part, with bell; d', conducting-wire to the shoe d' in Figs. 2 and 3; e, strap for slinging the apparatus around the body of the assistant or rider; f, connecting-wire between bell and dry element.]

beyond Occurrences 1%

There is no elaboration in the apparatus beyond that necessary to show the operation of buoying the vessel over the obstructions.

like Occurrences 1%

With an apparatus like the one here figured, and in which the filtering tube is eight inches in length by about one inch in diameter, about four and a half gallons of water per day may be obtained when the pressure is two atmospheresthe mean pressure in Mr. Pasteur's laboratory, where my experiments were made.

Which preposition to use with  apparatus