Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 2 | Each half was to operate for half of each day , allowing 50% of the pilots to be off duty at any one time . |
| 3 | 15% of dairy farmers producing 50% of the community 's milk . |
| 4 | 70% of beef farms producing 50% of beef cattle . |
| 5 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc figures it will be seeing $30m over the next eight years from selling its Symmetry 2000/750 and 450 machines to the US Department of Veteran Affairs as part of a multi-vendor team led by systems integrator Federal Data Corporation . |
| 6 | A Shanghai newspaper , Wenhui Daily , reported that a panda had been caught after killing and eating sheep on farms . |
| 7 | Sams , 51 , of Barrel Hill Road , Sutton on Trent , Notts , admits kidnapping Miss Slater in January , 1992 , unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding £175,000 with menaces from her then employers , Shipways Estate Agents , of Birmingham . |
| 8 | But Sams has admitted kidnapping Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater , unlawfully imprisoning her in January 1992 and demanding £175,000 with menaces from her then employer . |
| 9 | A thumping 83% of both bosses and outside directors said , ‘ represent shareholder interests ’ — way ahead of any other function . |
| 10 | Using Roe v. Wade as its starting point , the court ruled on April 18 that the Guam law , one of the most draconian pieces of anti-abortionist legislation enacted anywhere in the USA , was " clearly unconstitutional " . |
| 11 | Three major companies were then producing 83% of American cars : Ford , General Motors and , the most recent , Chrysler . |
| 12 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 13 | Using data for the Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals , it is found that the maximum rate of hydrocarbon generation for both coals occurs at a vitrinite reflectance of about 1% ( Figs. 10 and 11 ) . |
| 14 | Phillips analysed the relationship between the annual rate of change of money wage rates ( or the rate of wage inflation ) and the annual average unemployment percentage , using data for the UK from 1861 to 1957 . |
| 15 | Figure 12.2 illustrates a Phillips relationship using data for the UK between 1953 and 1967 . |
| 16 | Using data for concurrent five-minute periods , he found that for 14 , 15 , 16 and the morning of 19 October , there was a highly significant positive relationship between the volume of index arbitrage and the size of the mispricing . |
| 17 | Using data for the near and next-near futures contracts for the period from July 1984 to September 1986 , they found clear support that futures prices lead spot prices by one minute . |
| 18 | the variance of the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives computed using data for a number of days , that is , ( Anderson , 1985 ; Barnhill , Jordan and Seale , 1987 ; Cornell , 1981 ; Kenyon , Kling , Jordan , Seale and McCabe , 1987 ; Milonas , 1986b ) ; |
| 19 | Wiggins ( 1992 ) studied the performance of modified versions of the Parkinson and Garman and Klass estimators using data for S&P500 futures from 1982 to 1989 . |
| 20 | Using data for each of the individual futures contracts , Park and Sears used regression ( allowing for autocorrelation ) to fit the equation where V is the implicit variance and M : is the number of days to delivery . |
| 21 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of primary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.7 , using data for England . |
| 22 | These closures have to be seen in the context of changes in the number of children of secondary school age ; this is illustrated in Figure 5.11 , using data for England . |
| 23 | This is illustrated in Figure 5.12 , again using data for England . |
| 24 | Using data for a selection of metropolitan regions , the models will be tested for feasibility , accuracy and sensitivity . |
| 25 | Figure 4.11 ( cont. ) ( c ) As Figure 4.11(b) using data for Gross National Product . |
| 26 | The technique can be illustrated using data for polyisobutylene at several temperatures . |
| 27 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 28 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 29 | For locations , see Figure 4.5 ( From Harden Jones 1968 , using data of Wisby and Hasler ) . |
| 30 | When A calls B , it sends data of type D to B. When B terminates , it returns data of type E to A. Similarly , A communicates with C using data of types E and G. |