Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final straw which induced almost total panic in control was the large proportion of late entries ; about 10% were received before the official closing date , a further 30% before the weekend and nearly 60% on the day . |
| 2 | The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) . |
| 3 | Data were analysed with the statistical program SPSS , version 4.0 ( SPSS , Chicago , Illinois , United States ) . |
| 4 | These data were compared in the hypertensive and normotensive groups , as nearly as possible to the same ages at which these data had been recorded for hypertensive cases . |
| 5 | This time , the data were obtained in the following way : |
| 6 | Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health , the causes of deaths from the Finnish State Statistics , and annual alcohol consumption from the Finnish State Alcohol Company . |
| 7 | The data were obtained from the Canadian Hemophilia Registry . |
| 8 | For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group . |
| 9 | These data were stored on the large IBM installation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in London , and an " in house " written data base handling language , INFSYS , was used to marshall the data . |
| 10 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 11 | Data were collected from the relevant site departments , transcribed onto coding forms and sent to Dartford for punching onto paper tape . |
| 12 | The absorbance versus temperature data were converted to the first derivative and the melting temperature was defined as the temperature at which the derivative curve attained its maximum value . |
| 13 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |
| 14 | All the data were used by the simulated annealing algorithm , whilst the filtering algorithm filtered out those probes without a vertical black line ( as potentially repetitive ) , and the grey clones ( as potentially coligated ) . |
| 15 | The data were pooled from the 12 minirhizotrons in each forest . |
| 16 | Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 . |
| 17 | The data were processed with the Seismic Kernel System ( SKS ) seismic package . |
| 18 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 19 | Reportedly only 14 aircraft were sold during the two-day event . |
| 20 | Reportedly a total of only 14 aircraft were sold over the two day event , and those that actually sold realised low prices , making it somewhat of a buyer 's market . |
| 21 | A donation of £20,000 was made to the Conservative Party in 1992 [ 1991 £15,000 ] . |
| 22 | After being based at El Paso , Texas , in 1989 the aircraft was flown to the Liberal Air Museum in Kansas where it became a part of the Museum 's static display on a loan basis . |
| 23 | The aircraft was known to the German Air Force , or Reichsluftfahrtminsterium for short , as HE 100 D , since the appellation ‘ 113 ’ was considered unlucky . |
| 24 | The yearly event raises money for charity and this year £1,500 was raised for the local hospital , St Woolos ' appeal Surgery without tears . |
| 25 | Methylase assay : The methylase activity at 30°C and 42°C was measured in the same buffer used for the endonuclease reactions . |
| 26 | Data was collected on the three variables for the existing shops and the following model emerged : £ Sales per week = 193 + 0.23 x shoppers + 0.118 x floor area |
| 27 | The need for a mechanism to handle the global environmental data was defined in the early 1980s and the Global Resources Information Database ( GRID ) resulted . |
| 28 | But because they are so important in affecting livestock numbers , data was obtained for the Cantal department of the Auvergne and the county of Powys in Wales in order to examine trends . |
| 29 | I was told the data was needed for the Medical Division — among a host of other activities INCUBUS owns a number of , pharmaceutical laboratories . |
| 30 | In view of the potential theoretical significance of this pattern of responses this data was included in the following analyses . |