Example sentences of "[verb] in a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India 's major government policy is set and its large-scale capital expenditure is committed in a series of Five Year Plans . |
| 2 | In the later years of the eighteenth century it was still usual to build factories near water ; the iron industry was similarly dispersed in a series of villages . |
| 3 | On a somewhat more profane note , stars Paul Jones and Elaine Delmar will be appearing in a series of open-air concerts dedicated to the work of Cole Porter , with the title Let's Do It . |
| 4 | Even Mr Grovey would never have got anyone to work in a pair with Zacchaeus ! |
| 5 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 6 | From 23 May , when the first brick smashed through a lorry windscreen , to the final cataclysmic encounter almost four weeks later on 18 June , the violence rose in a series of tidal waves . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a ceremony by which the ti bon ange can be trapped in a corps cadavre . ’ |
| 8 | The school is scattered in a series of classrooms that dot several interlocking valleys . |
| 9 | Knock in a series of pegs at regular intervals to obtain an overall general level . |
| 10 | Also , can a Series III gearbox be installed in a Series IIA ? |
| 11 | Ignoring him , she pressed a tab on the console and keyed in a series of commands . |
| 12 | Special resin-miscible dyes are required , such as Epo-tek Blue Keystone or Waxoline Blue , mixed in a 10% dye:epoxy ratio . |
| 13 | The bridge rectifier should be one rated at 6A and may be difficult to find in a d.i.l. configuration . |
| 14 | Investment of between £4 billion and £5 billion is forecast in a series of developments focused round a pipeline network expected to carry 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day to Teesside . |
| 15 | Elements of the design are developed or resolved in a series of local activities . |
| 16 | Catherine , who lives in a £130,000 town house in |
| 17 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 18 | The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure . |
| 19 | Thomas , 43 , was born in a sharecropper 's shack in rural Georgia and was educated in a series of Catholic schools before reading law at Yale . |
| 20 | Despite the blood streaming from his nose , he was driving in a series of combinations which looked to have his opponent in trouble . |
| 21 | The rocks have been tectonised in a series of north-east trending shear zones as described by Munro ( 1986 ) . |
| 22 | As the outside and upper are also designed with weight rather than durability in mind , unless you are exceptionally light on your feet you would have to be either foolish or wealthy to train in a pair of racers . |
| 23 | NEWCASTLE boss Kevin Keegan is caught in a £500,000 tug-of-war over Swedish import Kennet Andersson . |
| 24 | Caught in a riot.MP escapes the mob in India . |
| 25 | We are caught in a series of mimeses which push Burbank into the focus of ritual , his actions sliding imperceptibly into reactions to and reenactments of a past rite whose origins we can never witness . |
| 26 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 27 | Where conflicts of interest arise ( should minerals exploration be permitted in a caribou reserve ? see Sheldon , 1988 ) there are precedents and procedures for resolving them . |
| 28 | Slice the celery thinly and place in a 23cm ( 9in ) baking dish . |
| 29 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |
| 30 | The book originated in a series of articles by Morelli with radical reattributions of major Italian Renaissance paintings in the Borghese Gallery , published under a pseudonym in the Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst in the 1870s . |