Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cable car too takes you up over 6,000 ′ to near the mountain peaks . |
| 2 | The 3 dB angle of the detector was reduced to 20° using the new collimator . |
| 3 | On the 36in. and 32in. screens the zoomed format made the pictures look very coarse . |
| 4 | We are therefore asking the Sports Council for a grant of £1,000 to enable the work to go ahead . |
| 5 | World No 50 Roe upset the form book by beating top 16 candidate Darren Morgan of Wales 5–2 to reach his second ranking quarter-final of the season . |
| 6 | The lists also show that the Elizabethan era was a period of considerable economic change as the woolstaplers were replaced by the butchers and the tanners ; cattle rather than sheep became the basis of local wealth , especially after 1541 when the disappearance of the Wyggestons removed a family which had dominated the town 's economy for two or three generations . |
| 7 | John Macgill was at Edinburgh 's Dreghorn barracks to see the flags come down . |
| 8 | The group 's cash balances shrank from £77 million to £36.5 million , and a token final dividend of 1p slashes the total to 3p , from 10.25p in 1991 . |
| 9 | However , a tax credit of £1.8m checked the slump in Pergamon 's net result with earnings per share holding up at 2.9p ( 4.1p ) . |
| 10 | About 50% of these are studying for the Diploma in Legal Practice and 50% pursuing the LL.M. , M.Sc. , M.Phil . |
| 11 | Establish exactly where it is with the aid of the locator system … and then introduce your Norfolk long-spade. push the blade 10 or 12 inches ( 25 or 30 centimetres ) into the ground immediately above the exact position of the ferret as defined by the locator and then put your ear to the ash shaft of the long-spade . |
| 12 | While most cavalry lack the rank bonus , their ability to charge in and kill large numbers of enemies before that enemy even gets to strike back means that they are just as capable of inflicting catastrophic defeat . |
| 13 | The releases formed part of a comprehensive process of exchange of Western hostages , Arabs held by Israel and its militia ally the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) and Israeli military personnel missing in Lebanon , which was being negotiated by the UN . |
| 14 | Both are run from the top : party headquarters pick the candidates at election time , control the patronage , take no nonsense from the constituencies . |
| 15 | Ritz-Carlton adopted the system in 1990 with a corporate director of quality based at their Atlanta headquarters to supervise the work of the quality leader in each hotel . |
| 16 | Several towns in the valley have textile industries which started when water wheels were used for power and local sheep provided the raw wool . |
| 17 | A state of emergency was ordered for Baku by the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 19 , after demonstrators had massed for three consecutive days outside the Azerbaijan CP central committee 's headquarters to demand the leadership 's resignation , and had erected barricades on the city 's outskirts to prevent the entry of Soviet troops . |
| 18 | The Kurdish delegates , to underline the point that they too are Iraqi , speak up against any violation of sovereignty ; they may also be proposing that the Kurdish guerrillas be somehow absorbed into the Iraqi armed forces as a local militia protecting the autonomous zone . |
| 19 | Ready or not , the Poles are putting up a stalwart front , rushing ahead with the same heedless bravery with which their mounted cavalry charged the German tanks in World War II . |
| 20 | When he had lifted the hood of the Capri , and fastened the arm to hold it open , then he bent again and reached under the chassis to retrieve the plastic bag holding the Ruger . |
| 21 | For example , activation of a single neurone in the goldfish causes the animal to flee from danger . |
| 22 | The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 23 | They will pay an extra £1,000 to repair the boiler it breaks down . |
| 24 | It has been mentioned earlier however , that with gunpowder , Roe modified the old 17th century hand chiselled level which became known as Cobbler 's Level . |
| 25 | Instead , RUC headquarters provided the following statement in response to a number of questions we raised about the case . |
| 26 | They went to erm a number of cities in Europe , of all the countries in Europe , and tried to gather the data to compare the quality of water in their countries , to the quality in ours . |
| 27 | They beat Swansea City in the new-look Coca Cola cup by three goals to nil.There to enjoy the party were some of the early pioneers of local football . |
| 28 | 45% of the respondents were non-enrollers , of whom 14% lacked the entry qualifications to get onto the courses we covered in the study . |
| 29 | Data revealed the majority of victims to be female ( 94 per cent ) . |
| 30 | Reliance on such data produced the systematic behaviour theories of Thorndike , Hull and Skinner . |