Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we could not determine the sensitivity of thyroglobulin , the specificity of about 100% agrees with previous results . |
| 2 | It was taken inside a wood , sheep grazed beneath tall trees that caught the sunlight filtering through them , casting long shadows towards the photographer . |
| 3 | Anne McGrath , prosecuting at Chester Youth Court said that sometimes the graffiti re-appeared within 30 minutes of it being cleaned off . |
| 4 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 5 | In early 1981 under the cloak of exercises , Polish military units in strategic locations were redeployed and their barracks occupied by internal security troops . |
| 6 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 7 | In the control group all occurred in hospital diabetic clinics whereas for the prompted group 67% occurred in general practice . |
| 8 | In her booth the cashier sat knitting behind a tank in which a solitary goldfish swam in desultory circles . |
| 9 | Zimbabwean conservationists have successfully completed a programme of rhino de-horning , a technique first developed in an effort to reduce rhino poaching in neighbouring Namibia . |
| 10 | Here , the potato cod congregate in one area , attracted by the possibility of food . |
| 11 | The fry hatch in 24–48 hours , depending on the temperature of the water and are free-swimming on the third or fourth day when their first food should be rotifers , liquid fry food or other small foods , followed by newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 12 | ( The data given in this chapter was collected during the first six months of 1985 and employers should , therefore , bear this in mind when determining their relocation policies . ) |
| 13 | It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 . |
| 14 | The data examined in this study give a consistent picture of behaviour changes among homosexual men which have led to a continuance of HIV transmission in this group in England and Wales . |
| 15 | Data calculated from available statistics shows that the number of livestock units/hectare of permanent grassland ( including rough grazing ) has risen from 1.45 LUs/hectare in 1961 to 1.67 in 1971 and 1.96 in 1982 , a slowly accelerating trend . |
| 16 | The size of the experimental groups was calculated to yield a power of 90% to detect a change of biological importance ( 40% ) , allowing for some experimental failures and given the SD of data calculated from preliminary studies . |
| 17 | Flick the switch left , watch the rpm build through 1,000 and , while pressing the igniter button in a bullet-shaped fairing on its top , inch the fuel cock gently forward . |
| 18 | There are , however , other ways in which the discourse analyst 's approach to linguistic data differs from that of the formal linguist and leads to a specialised use of certain terms . |
| 19 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |
| 20 | Other researchers have built neural networks to solve the problem of checking the vast amount of data gathered during mass screenings for fatal diseases such as cancer . |
| 21 | One solution to the data-collection problems outlined in 7.2 is to supplement a corpus of naturally occurring speech with data gathered by some kind of experimental method . |
| 22 | Having studied data gathered from various sources , the team has assisted staff to programme telephone handsets into ‘ hunt groups ’ , whereby calls can be answered by an alternative to prevent the call reverting to the switchboard unanswered . |
| 23 | Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods . |
| 24 | Data gathered from thousands of locations on land and sea by the Meteorological Office and the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University shows a steady rise over the last eight years , but according to scientists , it is too early to attribute this to the build up of greenhouse gases . |
| 25 | Some of the added capabilities include Escon optical channel support , data striping across multiple disks and disk mirroring . |
| 26 | There is a danger that the size of the NHS will again produce a range of systems and , subsequently , years of argument as to whether the data deriving from one system can truly be compared with another system because the items included are not common or are not grouped in the same way . |
| 27 | The ending of the pulse must occur before the address and data lines change their states otherwise data intended for one address may erroneously be written into the previous address as well . |
| 28 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 29 | Five years ago I hired an aircraft to tour for two weeks in the USA and was briefed on the possibility of radio thefts and the method used . |
| 30 | This project constructs a database of property owners in Glasgow at benchmark years ( 1861 , 1881 , 1911 ) using data contained in this source . |