Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be shall mow two meadows in Wodemed for 7 days and on Westmede for 2 or 3 days until it is reped , and what is mown in 2 days there he shall make with his companions … and the lord shall give the mowers of the two meadows 4s. for making the hay . |
| 2 | Similarly , the cut-off value of 5.5 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea patients had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 38% , and positive predictive value of 73% for separating reversible renal failure from CRF , and a cut-off value of 0.2 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 58% , and positive predictive value of 80% for separating the two conditions . |
| 3 | Col Peck blamed the incident on Gen Morgan , calling his men terrorists and bandits , and praised Mr Jess 's militia for observing the ceasefire . |
| 4 | The chemical company Albright and Wilson has been fined £1,000 for polluting the Irish Sea near its works in Whitehaven , Cumbria , six weeks after it was fined £2,000 for another pollution offence . |
| 5 | Martin Offiah has been fined £250 for snubbing the medal ceremony after the Charity Shield . |
| 6 | Penge U.D.C. asked the Company to pay about £250 for widening the bridge at Anerley Station but it eventually cost £1,750 . |
| 7 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 8 | Reid earned a jackpot prize of £20,000 for acing the 164-yard , par three 14th hole . |
| 9 | Similarly , a cut-off value of 2.6 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 76% , and positive predictive value of 65% for distinguishing the two conditions , and a cut-off value of 0.15 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 73% , and positive predictive value of 63% . |
| 10 | Although the tracheation of the pupal wings has yielded important data for ascertaining the homologies of the wing-veins of the adults , there is in some orders ( e.g. Trichoptera ) a wide divergence between the two systems . |
| 11 | Data for calculating the thermal history more objectively do not yet seem to be available ( but see Chadwick 1985a ) . |
| 12 | The jets , from RAF Marham , Norfolk , will join US and French aircraft in enforcing the ‘ no-fly ’ zone . |
| 13 | In developing the future size and shape of the Royal Navy , the Admiralty had two useful and recent precedents : the successful use of carrier-borne aircraft in interdicting the Chinese supply routes during the Korean War ; and the much more recent use of carriers to provide the lion 's share of tactical air support during the Suez landings , and the ad hoc use of the carriers Theseus and Ocean as Commando-helicopter-carriers in the amphibious assault on Port Said . |
| 14 | This year , for instance , the council asked for permission to spend £25m on tackling the town 's housing problems but it has been allocated only £3.8m one third of which is earmarked for improvement grants to private homes and the rest to ongoing council schemes . |
| 15 | The methodology is operationalized in a macro which calls a separate program to perturb the input data without changing the topology . |
| 16 | The low level of the aircraft on entering the Harbour and its speed , would have made it impossible for heavy anti-aircraft guns to depress and traverse to follow the aircraft and even difficult for 30mm cannon such as Bofors , even when the aircraft climbed to sixty feet to drop its torpedo . |
| 17 | For example , some dart-playing pupils found how many stamps they could buy for £1 by using the fact that treble 17 is $1 . |
| 18 | Derek Piggott , my instructor/demonstrator who has many hours on the Chevron , informed me that climb rate can be increased considerably by using thermal activity , and he showed very adequately the power off characteristics of the aircraft by stopping the engine and demonstrating the very impressive 17 to 1 glide ratio . |
| 19 | We obtained baseline clinical and sociodemographic data by interviewing the patient and reviewing the notes within 72 h of admission . |
| 20 | The new Earth Data System is designed to facilitate the collection and analysing of environmental-impact data by enabling the data to be gathered from many different types of computers that are geographically dispersed and often incompatible . |
| 21 | Today , however , there is a much greater realisation that the quality of the data is important to their precision and quantification and , in this regard , it is important to be able to assess the validity and the reliability of those data by understanding the nature of the collection instrument itself , the biases that it is heir to , and the kinds of instrumental corruptions that can affect the quality of the material it provides . |
| 22 | Shell UK was ordered on Feb. 23 , 1990 to pay a fine of £1,000,000 for polluting the Mersey river estuary on Aug. 19 , 1989 , when 156 tonnes of crude oil had escaped through a fractured underground pipeline causing a 10-mile oil slick which killed up to 300 seabirds and affected some 2,000 others . |
| 23 | John Gibbons , a courtier , was fined £8,600 for exceeding the terms of his grant of land in the forest : between 1629 and 1634 he had , without warrant , cut down 4,000 oaks worth £1 apiece , spoiled certain coppices , and enclosed 94 acres . |
| 24 | The Swindon Town hard-man was fined £1,200 for attacking the Scottish striker Jim Melrose , breaking his cheekbone in three places . |
| 25 | Mr Quelch was ordered to pay £150 costs on top of £400 for using the device and £100 for removing fish . |
| 26 | Agents know they could face fines of up to £400 for breaking the rules , but many keep taking the risk because they relish the free advertising . |
| 27 | The company was fined £10,000 after admitting the water pollution offence , which was discovered during routine sampling . |
| 28 | One fan who did n't mind the crush was student Allan Brett who scooped £10,000 after winning the National Computer Games Championships . |
| 29 | ‘ I am no prophet , nor a prophet 's son ; I am a herdsman , and the Lord took me. from following the flock . ’ |
| 30 | These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) . |