Example sentences of "[verb] a [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Skerritt had taught him how to catch a trout with his bare hands ; had taught him how to light a fire in the open without the aid of matches or flint . |
| 2 | And would n't it have been nice to catch a fish like that on the appropriate tackle for the species ? |
| 3 | Sampling procedures , then , necessarily involve a series of compromises . |
| 4 | When the sensory neuron , for instance in the tail , becomes active , it fires the interneuron , which in turn causes a series of chemical changes in the motor neuron . |
| 5 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 6 | To determine which functional group in CP 96345 interacts with His197 , we analysed a series of CP 96345 analogues in which the major substituents were altered . |
| 7 | She analysed a series of slide talks given at a professional biomedical conference ( it might just as easily have been a meeting of linguists , judging by the examples ) , and classified the hedges . |
| 8 | The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county . |
| 9 | This provided a series of standardized measures against which to evaluate individual Projects , while at the same time laying down broader objectives for the whole Programme . |
| 10 | A series of review panels wrestled with the problem and provided a series of responses . |
| 11 | Its reports provided a series of blueprints for post-war society . |
| 12 | So a lucky accident provided a means of overcoming the outstanding barrier to organ transplantation . |
| 13 | Their use of temporary workers provided a means of meeting these needs . |
| 14 | This was partly because the hiring fairs in the upland areas provided a means of regulating the labour market which appeared to render trade unionism irrelevant , but it was also due to the reduced social distance between farmers and farm workers there . |
| 15 | In a better attempt to define the intermediate diameter ( I ) of particles retained on sieves of specific nominal diameters ( D sv ) Komar & Cui ( 1984 ) demonstrated that the relationship provided a means of obtaining a more closely representative grain diameter than currently given by the sieve mesh itself . |
| 16 | As well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems that are also thought to be NT-capable . |
| 17 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc will launch its K2 series of multiprocessor Microsoft Corp Windows NT systems co-designed with Tricord Systems Inc on May 3 in the US — May 4 in the UK ( UX No 420 ) : Tricord has already launched the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions ; as well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems also said to be NT-capable . |
| 18 | Prior to the opening of the Republican Party convention , the party 's leadership attempted to curb the huge lead enjoyed by the Democrats by launching a series of attacks on the character of Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton . |
| 19 | Three factors combined to cause repeated postponement ; firstly , bad weather throughout most of April impeded the digging of jumping off trenches ; secondly , the French — under a new local commander on the Right Bank — had taken to launching a series of costly , but annoying , counter-attacks ; but thirdly , and most important , the attack along the Left Bank had fallen far behind schedule , and before those deadly flanking batteries could be mastered there was little prospect of an advance on the Right Bank . |
| 20 | Bell and Newell ( 1971 , Chapter 2 ) suggest a pair of notations for describing computers ; ISP ( Instruction Set Processor ) for descriptions at the instruction level , and PMS ( Processor-Memory-Switch ) for an over-all view of hardware components making up a complete computer system . |
| 21 | Each year business managers draw up a budget and suggest a series of financial targets . |
| 22 | This can be illustrated by a dipslope example ( Fig. 9.16 ) in which the reconstructed contours suggest a series of flatter and more steeply sloping areas . |
| 23 | And the main projections that have been work out by erm population council , United Nations and people like this , suggest a series of alternatives , which I referred to earlier . |
| 24 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 25 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 26 | The statement listed a series of general commitments following on from or developing the aims of the previous five-year plan [ see p. 32823 ] . |
| 27 | If it 's shorter you may need a pair of ( 22mm/¾″ BSP ) tap adaptors ; if longer , you may need to cut the pipe and then fit two new ( 22mm¾″ BSP ) tap connectors . |
| 28 | Not only do you have all the facilities of other commercial packages but with Rembrandt you can draw in stereo 3D , of course you will need a pair of glasses with the two colour lenses to see you drawings disappearing into the back of your monitor . |
| 29 | However , so long as one is aware of their limitations , classifications are useful , since they provide a series of labels to attach to different eruptions , aiding recognition and simplifying the job of describing them . |
| 30 | Quatro Pro provide a series of dialogue boxes for sorting , analysing and searching for data . |