Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The presence of bFGF and the binding sites for this peptide have been documented in various tissues including the gastrointestinal tract but the physiological role of bFGF has not previously been established .
2 You know , if it was a dog that was lost , if it was a cat that was lost , if it was even a pigeon that had got lost they 've got some homing device , but the sheep has n't even got that , it ca n't even find it 's own way home .
3 The fry hatch in around 30 hours and are like black slivers of wood as they hang tail down in the bubbles of the nest .
4 The aircraft flies comparatively slowly , at about 700 km/hr , but its big wings allow it to cruise at a height of more than 21 000 m — nearly double that of a transatlantic airliner .
5 Only a few said they could take over calving ( mainly because of the physical aspect ) so the figure of 56% refers almost exclusively to lambing .
6 Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone .
7 Overall , the Census data suggest not only that the standard of living for those already on state benefits in 1971 has fallen further behind , ‘ but that many more of the residents have become dependent upon benefits and have so little disposable income as to be unable to participate in the consumer society at all , ( p. 17 ) .
8 A water vole swam vigorously across from a little island , its round face and bright eyes showing above the water .
9 Pilot F/O E Foit bailed out of the stricken Hurricane , and the aircraft crashed almost vertically into the Loch .
10 Schumann 's ( 1977 ) social distance model does fit the data reported very well , where hearing people 's strong motivation to ‘ learn in order to help ’ low status deaf people makes the acceptance of BSL as a language more difficult .
11 One of the drawbacks to using any of the breakage data described so far is that later depositional agencies produce additional breakage , and it is difficult to distinguish between them .
12 The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career .
13 Another strength of using proprietary relational database technology is that we can use many report writers which are available to access that database , not only the accounting data but potentially all of the corporate data to pull out not only accounting reports but reports which combine information as necessary , partly from the accounting system , partly from the sales order processing system , partly from the inventory system , whatever they may be .
14 Partridge has previously only held annual exhibitions of recent acquisitions ; a thematic exhibition of relatively low cost items was , Mr Schroder conceded , an attempt to ‘ broaden the market ’ in these difficult times .
15 The bank pointed out that it was ‘ somewhat less ’ than the £230,000 reported in yesterday 's The Independent newspaper .
16 As far as the sufferers themselves were concerned , data showed not only the number of moderately to severely demented elderly people living in the community , but also the fact that they suffered , in addition to cognitive impairment , a variety of behavioural , or other mental or physical impairments .
17 A bob sound all right ? ’
18 We recently summarized all the data obtained so far by comparing archaebacterial housekeeping proteins with their homologues from eubacteria and eukaryotes at the sequence level .
19 ‘ We needed a large amount of seismic data turned round very fast , ’ says Keith Nunn , manager , Seismic Quality , XFI .
20 In practice , a number of intermediate ‘ tweaks ’ of recognition data seem particularly effective for the types of errors found from the test data collected so far .
21 The aircraft pitched rapidly forward and dived into the ground from a height of about 800 feet , the major impact being about 3.5 kilometres from the threshold of the runway at Lusaka International Airport .
22 This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick .
23 I imagine it 's a legacy of the war : centralised personal data sounds too much like the Gestapo-though mind you , it would be a hell of a storage problem if you hid start collecting copies of all these .
24 Accompanied by a medical team , the aircraft touched down shortly before noon on a specially-constructed landing site at the rear of the children 's hospital .
25 O-wait state memory and fast IDE hard disk makes data access exceptionally fast , and built-in parallel and serial ports makes printer and peripheral compatibility easy .
26 Sixpence seems so little … ’
27 This caused the aircraft to turn downwind rapidly .
28 Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us .
29 But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over .
30 Meanwhile on Malta after a quick lunch the 213 and 229 Squadron aircraft took off again to fly on to Mersa Matruh , lead by four of 252 Squadron 's Beaufighters .
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