Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] other [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also perfectly valid to use data about other cultures to show that , because these cultures work on other principles than the principles which govern our society , the principles are historically specific and not universal and unchangeable . |
| 2 | Attempts to provide land use data for other countries are bedevilled by even worse problems of definition and classification than those already outlined , but Best ( 1979 ) has tried to harmonize European national statistics to produce the figures shown in Table 8.2 , and in the USA although Jackson ( 1980 , 6 ) has argued that : ‘ it is almost impossible to provide adequate statistics on land use … because of differing definitions ’ , he has nonetheless provided the estimates shown in Table 8.2 using Department of Agriculture statistics . |
| 3 | The Pb isotope data for other islands located in areas of old lithosphere , Fernando de Noronha , Cape Verdes and the oceanic Cameroon line ( Fig. 1 ) , tend to be only slightly high in 206 Pb/ 204 Pb for a given 207 Pb/ 204 Pb ( Fig. 2 c ) , as expected given the lower average U/Pb ratios of lavas from these islands ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 4 | Of the total amount of financial aid of 12,000 million ECU , 10,800 million ECU ( compared with 7,400 million ECU under Lome III ) was to be channelled through the European Development Fund ( EDF ) : ( i ) 7,995 million ECU as general grants ( comprising 350 million ECU for emergency aid , 280 million ECU for interest-rate subsidies , 1,150 million ECU for structural adjustment and 6,215 million ECU for other grants ) ; ( ii ) 1,500 million ECU for the system of stabilization of export earnings from agricultural and fishery products ( Stabex ) ; ( iii ) 480 million ECU for the special facility for mining products ( Sysmin ) ; and ( iv ) 825 million ECU risk capital . |
| 5 | A computer-drawn map is generally the end-product from such a system , which allows the user to combine map data with other kinds of data about places ( economic , demographic , geological and pedological data , for instance ) in order to produce cartographic and tabular output to suit a specific purpose . |
| 6 | For example , through our Science across the World programme , any BP site can offer to a science class at a neighbouring school the chance to exchange data with other schools linked to BP almost anywhere in the world . |
| 7 | It is often combined with data from other sources , especially informal or unstructured interviewing . |
| 8 | This will be augmented by data from other sources notably on income , employment and family building . |
| 9 | However computerised data from other sources would eventually remedy the situation , said Mr Banks . |
| 10 | Its function is ‘ to undertake research on the economic aspects of medical care ’ , and to ‘ investigate other health arid social problems ’ , and to ‘ collect data from other countries ’ , and to publish the results of these wholly commendable activities . |
| 11 | Data from other countries point to a similar penalty on childbearing . |
| 12 | Area-specific studies of the relationship between geology and landslip hazard have been carried out in Shaftesbury , Dorset and Selborne , Hampshire , with additional data from other sites in Dorset . |
| 13 | SAS Calc is a two- and three-dimensional graphical spreadsheet which can read data from other spreadsheets like Lotus 1–2-3 . |
| 14 | The data for this elaboration come mainly from a participant observation study at Oxford United and from conversations at a local youth club , but data from other grounds are included to show that Oxford United is far from being an isolated case . |
| 15 | Whereas 1 and 2 above are interactive , 3 and 4 do not permit us to transfer data from other computers , or to allow external computers access to our data files . |
| 16 | Within RBGE , modems are used to transmit data from other computers using telephone lines . |
| 17 | Marine geophysics The final phase of the continental shelf programme funded by the Department of Energy included the integration of data from other organisations ' marine gravity surveys with the BGS dataset . |
| 18 | The database will also be expanded to include port book data from other parts of England and Wales with the object of devising a standardised format for computerising port books . |
| 19 | The functions they provide may include a selection of the following : electronic mail , fax , telex , word processing , records storage and retrieval ( both individual and shared ) , diary scheduling ( people and facilities ) , internal reference information , spreadsheets , access to other applications , and the importing and repackaging of data from other applications . |
| 20 | The Scuds fired so far have done no direct military damage , but the hunt for their launch sites has diverted many allied aircraft from other jobs . |
| 21 | ‘ Around 60pc of our income comes from membership and 40pc from other things . |
| 22 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 23 | If an association is suggested then we would want to collect data in other areas to assess the hypothesis further . |
| 24 | Both superpowers are opposed to opening up their satellite data to other nations . |
| 25 | Moreover we see both bomber forces gaining weight and flexing muscle ; Harris with his 100 bomber squadrons in sight ( but still painfully short of the Chief of Air Staff 's promised 3,500 aircraft ) , and the General commanding the Eighth Air Force in no better state , having to fight and fight hard to arrest the diversion of his build-up in aircraft to other theatres . |
| 26 | For the remaining children excluded from the analysis because of missing data on other variables the mean values for FEV 1 , FVC , FEF 2 5 — 7 5 , and FEF 7 5 — 8 5 were -0.065 , -0.007 , -0.08 , and -0.043 standard deviation scores respectively compared with 0.024 , 0.014 , 0.018 , and 0.004 standard deviation scores for those included . |
| 27 | For staff , because the process involves a protracted process of consultation with the local authority , sometimes other agencies , and the careful scrutiny of all relevant data by other personnel , internal policies might be seen as wanting and senior staff viewed as incompetent . |
| 28 | The transport department estimates that a charge of about 1.5 pence a mile for cars and vans and 4.5 pence for other vehicles would divert about 10% of vehicle miles at peak periods . |
| 29 | As well as all the usual allowances , you can bring home £265-worth of other goods from EC countries £32-worth from elsewhere . |
| 30 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |