Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means about 1,700 YHA members raising an average of £60 to plant an acre of trees . |
| 2 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 3 | ‘ I could ask if anybody in the barracks has an enlarger . |
| 4 | Now pursuing a wider marketing brief to replenish its coffers , the Open Software Foundation has opened up laboratories at its Cambridge , Massachusetts-based headquarters to provide an interoperability testing site . |
| 5 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 6 | Crosby dropped the £100,000-rated Germ an from the Roker reserves for lack of effort last week . |
| 7 | The new Foxhound fighter , a development of the famous MiG-25 Foxbat , is the first Russian aircraft to carry an advanced radar that can detect cruise missiles flying at low levels . |
| 8 | With a digital signal , the sound or other analogue information is converted into binary data using an analogue-to-digital converter ( see Part 7 last month ) . |
| 9 | Sale of investments worth £77,217 produced an operating surplus of £49,215 . |
| 10 | Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , head of the country 's largest Shia organization , the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , was also reported on Aug. 25 to have approved " safe havens " in southern Iraq but to have declined to back the use of Western aircraft to enforce an air exclusion zone . |
| 11 | Pre-tax profit of $41.9m represents an improvement of $70.9m ( 1992 : $29.0m loss ) . |
| 12 | If the data produces an exactly balanced tree , then this optimal point would be at the same level across all branches ( Sussenguth , 1963 ) , but this is not so with a lexicon , so the construction is much more difficult . |
| 13 | And operated alongside the A320 , these aircraft provide an unbeatable combination . |
| 14 | These data suggest an interaction between the antiarrhythmic agent and ischaemia — ie , the antiarrhythmic drug , which slows conduction as its usual mechanism of action , may have intensified the regional ventricular conduction delay accompanying ischaemia and caused ventricular fibrillation during ischaemic episodes . |
| 15 | Secondary data provide an excellent starting point for many international marketing research projects . |
| 16 | Gathering research data has an impetus of its own and this part of the research procedure was carried through reasonably smoothly . |
| 17 | Another problem arises because the air on board the aircraft has an oxygen pressure and water vapour content that are low in comparison with ‘ fresh air ’ and such an environment tends to cause dehydration and headaches. further , the lack of movement that is possible during the flight can lead to stiffness , even cramp . |
| 18 | Other calculations based on similar data yield an estimate of £135,000 ( Roll 1986 ) . |
| 19 | These data show an age-related increase in the reported prevalence of only some of these symptoms . |
| 20 | Before leaving London for the second time , the Captain of the aircraft received an updated weather report showing that conditions were bad at Manchester and deteriorating quickly at Prestwick . |
| 21 | The bank vole shows an interesting contrast between this trend and the opposite one during trapping that the likelihood of capture increases with age using live traps . |
| 22 | Our data confirm an upward shift of the proliferative zone in the patients with adenomatous colorectal polyps ( which are themselves associated with an increased tendency to develop colon cancer ) . |
| 23 | The data demonstrate an involvement of pax[b] in the formation of the midbrain-hindbrain junction . |
| 24 | The air traffic control clearance at Keflavik specified that the aircraft maintain an altitude of 28,000′ and this altitude was flown until near Prince Christian . |
| 25 | Then the index stood at 130.2 so the uplifted value of a nominal £100 of 2% index-linked Treasury 1996 would have been equal to : But in September 1991 interest rates on index-linked stock were well above 2 ½%,; so the Bank of England issued the new tranchette at a price of £110.625 to give an estimated real gross yield to maturity of 4.22% . |
| 26 | Harden 's data indicate an annual range of soil losses varying from , with the highest rates of erosion occurring where soils are exposed to drought , overgrazing or tillage . |
| 27 | Our data indicate an association between the genetic polymorphism at the PGC gene locus and gastric body ulcer . |
| 28 | Bourner and Hamed used their data to calculate an A-level equivalent score for students entering with qualifications other than A-levels . |
| 29 | Santa Clause 's reindeer brought an entire city centre to a standstill when they arrived to give children a treat before Christmas . |
| 30 | About 65% took an option of letting Costa Rica buy back its paper at 15% of face value , while only 35% picked two types of low-interest bonds ; there was no new money . |