Example sentences of "[n mass] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stream take-offs by the Hercules and Centaurus-powered aircraft are followed by film of the aircraft en route to the dropping zone . |
| 2 | Myeloperoxidase activity data are presented as units per mg protein . |
| 3 | The Oxford Record Linkage Study does not collect information about prescriptions but data are collected about admissions to hospital for peptic ulcer . |
| 4 | Currently , practice data are standardised for age by converting list sizes to prescribing units and prescribing costs are expressed per prescribing unit rather than per patient . |
| 5 | The chemiluminescence data are expressed as cpm per mg protein . |
| 6 | Parametric data are expressed in terms of the mean and 95% confidence interval ( CI ) and comparison between groups was by the Student 's t test . |
| 7 | Non-parametric data are expressed in terms of the median and lowest possible CI above 95% as calculated by the binomial based method , with comparison between groups by the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 8 | The problem , in many cases , seems to lie less with the original ethnographic descriptions than with secondary and tertiary applications where these data are put into service in the construction of grand theoretical schemes . |
| 9 | The unit changes what it ‘ sees ’ into a digital form and records this onto a floppy disc , from which the data are translated by computer into an image of the tree 's insides . |
| 10 | Deletions of chromosome 17p are found in 75% of colorectal cancers and are highly correlated with mutation of the remaining p53 gene . |
| 11 | Presumably the remaining 20% are formed from combinations of these four classifications : |
| 12 | Lots of our pet fish are regarded as food in their native countries . |
| 13 | And where the tins of fish are juxtaposed with fragments of Mariana 's body the evocation is also of death and putrefaction , perhaps also of coarse jokes about the distinctive ‘ fishy ’ smell of vaginal secretions . |
| 14 | Values less than 6.0 mg/l are considered normal and those exceeding 6.0 mg/l are regarded as evidence of a raised CRP in serum . |
| 15 | By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications . |
| 16 | However , when planning we need to make sure that people are compensated for disruption in a way that does not put them at a disadvantage . |
| 17 | That seems to me , a very evil thing , if people are kept in prison for months before they 've been found guilty . |
| 18 | One hundred and ninety thousand people are injured in accidents at work every year — a figure that appalls health and safety campaigners . |
| 19 | More than three million people are threatened by drought in an impoverished corner of Ethiopia . |
| 20 | Some people are faced with demands for sexual favours or degraded or insulted . |
| 21 | It will seek to understand how people are influenced by ideas of ‘ healthy ’ eating , and how such ideas are translated into practice . |
| 22 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 23 | In addition to these , many people are exposed to fumes at work — from industrial processes , photocopier machines or dry cleaning solvents , for example . |
| 24 | The retirement age in Japan is often as low as 50 years , so Japanese old people are turned from producers into consumers long before their time . |
| 25 | ( Nor should we forget the widespread convention in racist societies that Black people are addressed by whites as boy and girl . |
| 26 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 27 | Some 850,000 people are supplied with water with a nitrate concentration above 50 mg/litre . |
| 28 | Walker ( 1980 , 1987 ) , Townsend ( 1981 ) and Bosanquet ( 1987 ) have argued that old people are forced into dependency by the rest of society through early retirement policies , stigmatising social security , and welfare services which undermine independence . |
| 29 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 30 | In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc . |