Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the subspecies has a white face with black eyepatches . |
| 2 | These groups should not be regarded as representative of the Cardiff population : the 1991 census data records a Bangladeshi population of 1663 , some 0.6% of the total . |
| 3 | It may be significant that it is the only instance where pooling the data has a strengthening effect on the correlations , supporting the view that communication problems are at the root of a large number of industrial problems in all cultures . |
| 4 | Our Falconet target aircraft uses a centrifugal launcher as its principal method of getting airborne . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having been airborne for a while and learned that this aircraft demands a gentle touch on the engine controls , the trainee who demonstrates prudent use of reverse derives huge satisfaction from the soft-but-powerful deceleration , bringing the aircraft to a stop in 400 metres . |
| 7 | A heron makes a measured flight across the setting sun towards a heronry , no doubt protected by the nation 's countless defenders of the natural world . |
| 8 | More than just a facelift for BMW 's most important model , the new 3-series marks a fundamental change of direction |
| 9 | It is not known whether Nucella shows a similar pattern of behaviour , but the two genera are very similar in many other respects . |
| 10 | Work with Royal Logistics Corps plays a crucial role in getting supplies and troops in and out of the war zone . |
| 11 | Phone ( £1.50 includes a small donation to NCT ) |
| 12 | Phone ( £1.50 includes a small donation to NCT ) |
| 13 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 14 | The 1.9-litre diesel at £11,236 gives an excellent combination of economy with performance . |
| 15 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |
| 16 | A 1 in 100 chance per year of a major accident injuring 100 people has a different significance from 1 fall per year injuring 1 person , for instance , even though the average injury rate per year is the same . |
| 17 | Management has become an whole-school process , entailing that every member of staff has a managerial role of some kind , and it should be approached as such in any INSET or support programmes . |
| 18 | Reassurance behaviour by touch , caress , mutual clasping , and other tactile means establishes a mutual support between animals known to one another that promotes , on the one hand , confidence in the face of potential antagonists and , on the other , a support that makes aggression unnecessary since simple assertion can maintain an individual 's security . |
| 19 | Mori 's analysis of the voting intentions of some 22,000 people reveals a similar pattern of Labour failing to gain ground among those who would be most likely to benefit from its policies . |
| 20 | Is Jobson really 30 years old ? 2 million quid seems an awful lot of money for a 30 year old , although I would like to see us buy a really top class centre back . |
| 21 | An Investor in People makes a public commitment from the top to develop all employees to achieve its business objectives . |
| 22 | ft provides an invaluable example of the way in which soft systems ideas can be of benefit to MS professionals and other analysts , and , in turn , to those organisations that make use of their services . |
| 23 | A final dividend of 10.7p leaves an unchanged total of 16.0p for the year , payable from earnings per share which picked up from 14.3p to 16.2p . |
| 24 | This follows because in the competitive world of the coral reef , a fish of the same species represents a major threat to the food supply and refuge of the sitting tenant , simply because the interloper requires the same type of food and habitat . |
| 25 | Mortensen described it as having a hooked tip and identified his specimens as A. palmeri , type locality : Key Biscayne , Florida because that species has a prominent hook on the second arm spine . |
| 26 | This species has a distinctive combination of fine ribbing and coarse tubercles . |
| 27 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 28 | This catfish exhibits an usual form of ‘ parental care ’ , not dissimilar to that of the cuckoo — which is infamous for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and leaving them to be hatched and raised by the involuntary ‘ foster-parents ’ In the case of Synodontis multipunctatus , it swims in and out among mouth-brooding cichlids which are in the throes of spawning and releases its eggs at the same time as the cichlid , whose eggs it often devours . |
| 29 | The theatre-goer 's exclusive price of £42.00 includes a pre-theatre cocktail in the hotel 's Terrace Bar , theatre tickets , accommodation and full English breakfast . |
| 30 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |