Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a family in the Lebanon whose house has been bombed by Israeli jet aircraft or destroyed by a CIA-backed bomb the definition probably does not matter much . |
| 2 | Instead , meaning and order is imposed on our lives as our behaviour , experiences , thoughts , feelings , and so on , are transformed into statistical data and interpreted within a scientific framework to which we have no access unless we 've been trained in the technical language of psychology . |
| 3 | When an aircraft design has evolved significantly , a critical assessment should be made by the certification authority in association with the manufacturer as to the validity of extrapolation of the original design data when applied to a developed aircraft variant . |
| 4 | The man is described as 5ft 10in and dressed in a black or navy anorak and dark trousers . |
| 5 | They will have to be separated from Koi and goldfish and housed in a separate pond or large tank : if they , too , bear parasites , these will have to be individually removed ( tweezers for anchor worm , cotton buds for fish-lice ) . |
| 6 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 7 | In its first year it provided training opportunities for more than 4,500 people and invested in a wide range of small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 8 | Further data , for example , concerning teachers ' reasons for using these texts , were collected during these visits both through informal discussion and through the use of questionnaires which were completed by some of the staff and returned at a later date ( see appendix 1 . ) |
| 9 | Think of ‘ narrowcasting ’ as the opposite to ‘ broadcasting ’ — reaching a few selected people as opposed to a mass audience . |
| 10 | We already reviewed our position on the recruitment of unemployed people as outlined in a new concept of trade unionism , prepared and , specially prepared , for this Congress . |
| 11 | The manometer ports were spaced every 2.5 cm and perfused at a constant pressure of 15 cm h 2 o with distilled water ( a total volume 0.3 ml/min ) . |
| 12 | It 's the machine every Game Boy owner would like , but it costs a prohibitive £129.99 if bought with a Sonic The Hedgehog cart . |
| 13 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |