Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sheep make a noise . |
| 2 | Only if sheep graze a combination of rough grassland and heather moor will the grassland slowly extend at the expense of moorland . |
| 3 | A traditional rural scene ; as sheep graze a Gloucestershire pasture , but this is the new face of farming . |
| 4 | Aircraft make a far greater contribution to global warming than previously recognised , according to a report from the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 5 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 6 | These data raise a number of specific questions , and some more general issues . |
| 7 | These breeding season data suggest a marked decrease since 1938 , when Walpole-Bond quoted a figure of 500 pairs for south-west Sussex . |
| 8 | the data suggest a change in atmospheric composition that could be linked with dramatic changes in human activity , first starting in the Elizabethan age and then in this century . |
| 9 | The national data suggest a further mismatch — between this same collaborative setting and the teacher 's predominantly individual or whole-class mode of interaction . |
| 10 | These clusters , which have been made readily available to agencies , provide a very useful ‘ shorthand ’ for analysing and describing relevant markets or brands covered by TGI , since the data provide a direct link between brand or product use and media use . |
| 11 | ‘ These data provide a plausible explanation for the French paradox , ’ says the Lancet , but it calls for further studies . |
| 12 | Digital data occupy a central position in this applications field and a number of examples are given to illustrate the extent to which their development has been hampered or facilitated in various countries by the policies of the organizations with responsibility for digital data provision . |
| 13 | The footprints obtained at 4°C show a similar , though slower , rate of change . |
| 14 | Errors could be introduced by inaccurate assumptions made in obtaining the vertical profiles of temperature , pressure and nitric acid and by uncertainties in the line parameters , although sensitivity tests of retrievals using LIMS profiles for January and May with appropriate temperature and pressure data show a change of only 1% . |
| 15 | The data show a wide range of strategies overall , and we would trust that more of these could enter the management vocabulary of more schools . |
| 16 | FoE has published analysis which shows that government data show a total of 177 " incidents " in 1991 when the World Health Organization ( WHO ) guidelines on ozone levels were exceeded . |
| 17 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 18 | Our data support a multicomponent model for the articulatory loop , in which the subvocal rehearsal system and the phonological store are anatomically distinct . |
| 19 | Our data describe a technique which has allowed detailed study of the proliferation compartment of human gastric mucosa , about which little has been published . |
| 20 | Given that the remotely sensed data add a great deal of information to these processes this is hardly surprising , but this general approach is relatively easy to carry out in a GIS environment . |
| 21 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 22 | The data indicate a connection between adequate assessment of social factors and civil liberties , commented on elsewhere ( Sheppard , 1990 ) , and considered further later . |
| 23 | The data indicate a high geothermal gradient extending from shallow crustal depths down to the mantle , with melt probably present at 50km depth . |
| 24 | All these data indicate a considerable need for rural council houses , and authors such as Shucksmith , Newby and Larkin argue that need and demand for council housing outstrip the supply and any foreseeable increase in supply . |
| 25 | Statistical evaluation of these data indicate a significantly higher incidence of pseudomelanosis coli in patients with tumours of the large bowel . |
| 26 | These data indicate a half life of Β 1 integrins on HT-29 cells of about 20–24 hours under these experimental conditions , but we can not rule out the probablity that in the presence of DMJ the turnover rate of these adhesion receptors differs from that of untreated cells . |
| 27 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |
| 28 | BOB play a string of dates at . |
| 29 | Consequently , age data contain a considerable error component that differs among surveys . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if , for example , the data follow a 2-year cycle , a 3-year moving average will follow an inverse cycle since alternate averages will contain two lows and one high or two highs and one low . |