Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors . |
| 2 | This takes place on a planet 's surface using solid 3D graphics . |
| 3 | The availability of good roads in Central and Mediterranean Europe , during the first half of the 19th century , made possible sales contracts under which the buyer paid for the goods upon the seller 's tender of the bill of lading at the port of shipment or transhipment . |
| 4 | Hunt , a part-time preacher , had also been under investigation for using state-owned aircraft for profit-making preaching trips , but was understood not to have ben charged in relation to this . |
| 5 | I find it difficult to conceive how an international hospital with a high with a highly regarded professional staff can be allowed to slip into terminal decline . |
| 6 | Both the Royal College and childbirth groups agree that consultant obstetricians should spend more time in the labour ward helping junior staff . |
| 7 | Giving the Town hall back to the people of Ealing was achieved by re-locating administrative staff in an adjacent building , and using the space thus created for lettable function rooms . |
| 8 | We carry out all our assessments in a professional way , using professional staff who have to balance many things including environmental and ecological issues . ’ |
| 9 | The Inland Revenue raised £79.4 billion , down 3½ p.c. , while Customs and Excise receipts rose by only 11½ p.c. to £61.8 billion despite a 17 p.c. increase in the rate of value added tax to 17½ p.c. , reflecting low sales of consumer items attracting VAT . |
| 10 | By using low data rates ( 600 bits/sec ) the mobile aerial can be compact and omnidirectional . |
| 11 | evaluate surviving data in terms of its potential utility for research data and/or dissemination in the future ; |
| 12 | I do n't think needy people from other countries should be deprived of treatment , but surely our citizens should come first — especially as they help fund the NHS . |
| 13 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |
| 14 | In Hollywood , McDevitt , a would-be screenwriter , had been trying to generate interest in a film script about two thieves who hide stolen works of art in a cave in Germany . |
| 15 | According to the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , as many as 50,000 troops might be assigned to the new force , most of them from existing units , including an Anglo-Dutch amphibious division , a planned multinational North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) division and the recently formed Franco-German corps [ see pp. 38931-32 ] . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 17 | When we describe or summarize numerical information to make it more usable we are essentially using descriptive statistics . |
| 18 | Bassett , France and Pliska ( 1989 ) studied the basis of the MMI on Monday 19 October 1987 using minute-to-minute data . |
| 19 | TOP LEVEL COMPUTING OFFERS COMPLETE WORKS UPGRADE |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want anyone to be frightened , but I do n't want unnecessary people getting in the way . ’ |
| 21 | It will also be necessary to consider the extent to which the evidence involves technical data and the extent to which any particular parent is likely to find this kind of information helpful . |
| 22 | The strike at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon involves technical staff . |
| 23 | The researchers say that DTX-2 is biogenetically related to two other agents , okadaic acid and DTX-1 , which cause diarrhoea after eating toxin-contaminated shellfish ( J. L. C. Wright et al , J. Chem . |
| 24 | It was also stated that , even at the level of explaining security returns , CAPM tests using historic data have not been terribly successful . |
| 25 | Playing golf is unlikely to kill Scandinavian fish or pine trees by causing acid rain . |
| 26 | The mill has been completely redesigned ; new offices have been built to accommodate regional staff , and almost every corner of the site has been affected in some way or another . |
| 27 | Before making their individual territory estimates , the salesforce may be briefed on past trends , and on significant factors that the company thinks are likely to affect total sales during the forthcoming period . |
| 28 | This project looks at aspects of the migrants ' housing experience , using aggregate statistics to establish general tenure patterns and interviews to recreate biographical histories . |
| 29 | But there is a bigger problem than timing in using aggregate ROE as a guide to capacity . |
| 30 | The model on which this claim is based has been extensively tested in the United States using aggregate data . |