Example sentences of "[n mass] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be very useful if we could trap all this data and stuff it into a file , then we could study it at our leisure . |
| 2 | He erased all the existing data and replaced it with a single line written in capital letters : TO BE TERMINATED AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF JAMEL MOBUTO . |
| 3 | It is also possible to collect learning data and feed it to an instructor either on-line or off-line . |
| 4 | ‘ Our EIS software will extract validated data and convert it into a more user-friendly form — charts , graphs and tables — allowing ‘ drill down ’ to greater levels of detail within a subject . |
| 5 | In 1888 he bought Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds for £10,000 and presented it as a civic monument , and he gave £5,000 to Leeds Infirmary , as well as other sums for charitable purposes — deeds for which , in 1889 , he became the first honorary freeman of Leeds . |
| 6 | I removed this fish and put it in a quarantine tank and I treated both the Damsel and the fish in the main tank with Cuprazin . |
| 7 | If you have been unable to detect the early symptoms and the disease has progressed ( very common with ponds where fish can easily hide or where water clarity is poor ) you will have to catch all the affected fish and treat them in a salt bath . |
| 8 | The procedure is to remove some of the gut contents from ‘ affected fish and place them on a microscope slide . |
| 9 | Based in the UK , MAP is an ecumenical organisation that aims to increase media awareness , to encourage critical dialogue with media practitioners and to recognise the underlying values in the media and evaluate them from a Christian viewpoint . |
| 10 | Wainfleet ignored his usual perch and followed her to a shadowed corner . |
| 11 | In an interview contemporary with the novel , Brooke-Rose explains that ‘ Amalgamemnon is in fact about the violence which we all commit when we 're always trying to amalgamate people and put them in a category ’ ( 1984b ) , but the novel also turns this strategy back on itself and uses ‘ amalgamation ’ to shatter categories . |
| 12 | At the first waves of other-worldly congregational sound Lee swung her body away from the sight of these people and curled herself into a womb-like position , hugging her waist with her arms . |
| 13 | I removed the Lionfish and put him in a quarantine tank , but he died . |
| 14 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 15 | Despite the increase of unbelief , beginning well before the Origin of Species and showing itself in a whole new genre of novels of religious doubt starting with J. A. Froude 's Nemesis of Faith ( 1849 ) , the late Victorian period saw the enormous expansion of the missionary enterprise and of church building . |
| 16 | Grate the rind from one of the grapefruit and put it into a baking dish , together with the shallots and wine . |
| 17 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 18 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 19 | Since the first edition of this volume , the government has discontinued the low-income families statistical series and substituted it with a new series showing households below average income . |