Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It means about 1,700 YHA members raising an average of £60 to plant an acre of trees . |
| 2 | ‘ Sheep make a noise . |
| 3 | A traditional rural scene ; as sheep graze a Gloucestershire pasture , but this is the new face of farming . |
| 4 | Only if sheep graze a combination of rough grassland and heather moor will the grassland slowly extend at the expense of moorland . |
| 5 | In practice , thought , the Antares 130 was slightly thirsty and turned in a pto fuel consumption figure of 265g/kWhr. given a 20% power loss between engine and pto , this gives a fuel consumption figure for the engine of 238g/kWhr . |
| 6 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |
| 7 | One person 's arrears of £40 became a debt of £118 when the bailiff 's charges were added . |
| 8 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 9 | Only keep the function in-house if headquarters wins a contract . |
| 10 | Q3 losses down by almost a half at $2.4m produced a deficit $14.8m lower at $5.2m . |
| 11 | The Italian made Candy turbomatic 38D has a fault that can make it burst into flames , an inquest heard . |
| 12 | ‘ I could ask if anybody in the barracks has an enlarger . |
| 13 | On this page , Nick Roe visits a plant which , despite strenuous public relations efforts , has failed to convince its neighbours that it has come clean . |
| 14 | Now pursuing a wider marketing brief to replenish its coffers , the Open Software Foundation has opened up laboratories at its Cambridge , Massachusetts-based headquarters to provide an interoperability testing site . |
| 15 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 16 | MB has a vision |
| 17 | These indings may be relevant for the prophylaxis of duodenal ulcer disease in humans , an appealing concept indirectly supported by epidemiological and experimental data suggesting a relationship between the incidence of peptic ulcer and the consumption of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids . |
| 18 | The 100p represents a 21% premium on the closing price earlier in the week . |
| 19 | The dots represent the original data ; the smooth line represents a function of the form ( where x is eccentricity ; a 1 -a 3 , l 1 -l 3 are constants ) fitted to the data using a least-squares method . |
| 20 | In the past few years , however , there has been progress in the systematic analysis of qualitative data using a variety of specially written computer programs . |
| 21 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 22 | These data raise a number of specific questions , and some more general issues . |
| 23 | Bartimaeus became a disciple . |
| 24 | From out of deepest Wales , Mary Denton has developed a unique method of charting the service history of a person , airfield or aircraft using a mixture of calligraphy and heraldry . |
| 25 | Applying this variant would reduce the scatter at the high end , since the values of log ( 1/n 2 ) would be approximately half those of log ( 1/n ) , but the scatter is still too large to permit an unequivocal statement that the data fits a Lotka distribution ) . |
| 26 | Applying this variant would reduce the scatter at the high end , since the values of log ( 1/n ) would be approximately half those of log ( 1/n ) , but the scatter is still too large to permit an unequivocal statement that the data fits a Lotka distribution ) . |
| 27 | Sale of investments worth £77,217 produced an operating surplus of £49,215 . |
| 28 | Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , head of the country 's largest Shia organization , the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , was also reported on Aug. 25 to have approved " safe havens " in southern Iraq but to have declined to back the use of Western aircraft to enforce an air exclusion zone . |
| 29 | Pandolfi has called for a supplement of 136 million ecu to enable a number of projects to be revived . |
| 30 | POLICE were today hunting three people who tricked their way into a pensioner 's house and stole £220 using a baby as a decoy . |