Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fry hatch on the fifth day and about 3mm long . |
| 2 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 3 | US State Department reports on Aug. 3 had alleged that Iraqi forces had been spotted by reconnaissance aircraft massing on the Saudi border in preparation for a possible invasion . |
| 4 | Having designed a modern airframe , airfoil section and chosen the best of modern and traditional materials , they now produce a range of aircraft based on the basic airframe . |
| 5 | To determine these tolerances , regulators use data based on the average exposure to a particular pesticide of the entire population . |
| 6 | Several organisations have been signed-up to the rebuild and the schedule has the aircraft flying on the 50th anniversary date . |
| 7 | If your name or aircraft appears on the following list the CAA would like to hear from you , and for their part promise to place their mailing list for safety information from that time . |
| 8 | There were three APCs in the yard , with their light cannon trained on the far wall . |
| 9 | After studying the option , or take-note , Roe replied on the 19th July , from Liverpool , pointing out that only the moderate Royalty and the advanced price of copper ( this was around £80 per ton for metal ) could have reconciled him to such an " unprecedented manner of attaining a Mineral lease . " |
| 10 | Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency . |
| 11 | Most black directors ' budgets are pegged at around $7m , compared with the $25m-40m spent on the average Hollywood film . |
| 12 | Indeed , it became almost de rigueur for a man of substance to put aside a considerable sum for his funeral monument , the £600 spent on the third Earl of Sussex 's memorial being fairly typical . |
| 13 | Instead of discounts on their council houses , would-be buyers could be given grants of up to £25,000 to buy on the open market . |
| 14 | Why do a further 30% attend on the specific recommendation of ‘ former ’ clients ? |
| 15 | Fortunately , in 1983 the Unemployment Unit began to produce statistics based on the pre-1982 system of counting , and these give a much more accurate picture of changes in the level of unemployment . |
| 16 | He realized they were no different from him : he and they were all people walking on the dusty road which ends in death . |
| 17 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 18 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 19 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 20 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour of Korea rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 21 | Er , this will obviously stop people driving on the wrong side of the road but it certainly wo n't or it wo n't prevent the excessive use of this service road which is very narrow indeed . |
| 22 | It is true , causeway because of the situation that exists we do have people driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 23 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 24 | Bleak scenarios of the " economic burden " that elderly people imposed on the working population underlay the 1988 Social Security Act and the impetus given to private pensions . |
| 25 | Choice of teaching methods and media depends on the learning-teaching situation , the subject material , the students , and the teachers . |
| 26 | Many old people and young people depend on the middle-aged workers . |
| 27 | People living on the proposed site say their future is now more uncertain than ever . |
| 28 | The running time is twenty six minutes , we might as well get that right , we had er , er several people commenting on the running time of the other video , but er people had different of estimates , anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes . |
| 29 | So we , so we distribute the staff based on the hard data and then you make cases based on other factors . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're developing a spreadsheet product that will allow a group of people to interact on the same spreadsheet , so people can contribute different ideas , assumptions and scenarios to a common spreadsheet . |