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

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1 They then turned to the govt. & only when the govt. took action did situations improve at all .
2 Obviously , this is a total IFR aircraft if only because it is pressurised , so some hours are devoted to what can best be described as ‘ autoflight programming and monitoring ’ .
3 While the concept of headship has been criticized on empirical and political grounds , see for example Murphy ( forthcoming ) , it is necessary to use it here because it is the familiar way of presenting data and also because many data from earlier years are available only in this form .
4 Because of the need to be able to assimilate and present objectively masses of map data and also because of scepticism sometimes expressed about their very existence , rejuvenation features , mainly successions of erosion surfaces , were quite early subjected to quantitative methods of investigation and depiction , which still illustrate well some of the problems and pitfalls involved .
5 Diffuse oesophageal spasm was defined as the presence of greater than 10% but less than 100% simultaneous contractions .
6 However , there may be a transfer charge of about £10 or £20 as well as an interest penalty of up to 90 days .
7 Producers are asked to make available every quarter a price list covering their entire range , prepared in Ecu as well as local currency , for ease of comparison .
8 ‘ We 'll be counting seals and looking at reindeer as well as looking at affects on the environment .
9 Others cash in by selling aircraft as soon as they get them to consortiums of banks and investors — and then lease them back .
10 Since we are not yet able to predict all the interactions which may be important in a study of environmental problems , collecting potentially useful data as well as those believed central to the problem under study is often wise ;
11 And thirdly they argue that a model formulated by Japanese scientists to estimate the numbers of sperm whales , which is based on age of whale at sexual maturity , offers better evidence about whale stocks than the model developed by the International Institute for Economic Development , which uses length of whale ; yet the Japanese model does not fit the data as well as the IIED model .
12 Ground-based data as well as the latest information from the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft are used in developing both physical descriptions and theoretical understanding .
13 For it 's a comprehensive source of management data as well as a fuel card .
14 The specially-tailored solution , Ensemble , allows marketing data as well as orders and invoices to be exchanged .
15 One example of this is matters to do with safety : it is always useful to collect ‘ critical incident ’ data as well as accident data as one part of the feed-back about system performances .
16 The device will enable broadcasters to transmit data as well as video signals across television networks , at a rate of 1.5Mbps per second .
17 Ron Bower , director of product management for end user tools says Informix Storm will allow users to access , extract , manipulate and present corporate data as well as share information across different applications .
18 Currently , MIS staff have to maintain the integrity and security of corporate data as well as providing users who may not have — and who probably do n't want — knowledge of the database structure , ways to access information .
19 The aims of this were to find out if the prevalence of bowel symptoms is indeed increased in women after hysterectomy and those treated by cholecystectomy , using a random sample of the population and prospectively recorded data as well as questionnaire responses .
20 Since a GIS involves the storage , and manipulation of spatial data as well as the use of a graphical display system ( 2 or 3 dimensional data display ) it is feasible that the impression conveyed by the same data used in conjunction with a different display system might be distorted and might not permit future users to comprehend the meaning that it originally communicated .
21 As the holders of information on data as well as on their origins and their users , archives are in a unique position to promote dialogue on analytical methods and research .
22 If you have savings or capital over £3000 but less than £8000 we will ask you to pay , in addition to your pension and state benefits , £1 per week for every £250 above £3000 .
23 National Semiconductor Corp and Toshiba Corp have extended their agreement on joint development and marketing of CMOS logic chips to cover 3V as well as 5V products .
24 The primary purpose of this study was to determine from available materials for developing and developed countries the conditions of childbearing that are most favourable to viability of the offspring as well as to infant , childhood and maternal health and well-being as indicated by the minimum mortality and maximum survival chances of children through age five and minimum morbidity and mortality among women as a result of the process of childbearing .
25 The genus appeared suddenly in the Atlantic at the end of the Pliocene without any local antecedent forms , and it is thought that transarctic migrations of several Pacific genera , including Buccinunl and Searlesja as well as Nucella , occurred through the Bering Strait , between a half and one million years before the onset of the first of the Pleistocene glaciations ( Franz and Merrill , 1980 ) .
26 Tipped for the top by A&R folk as soon as they showed their faces in the capital , their label Phffft ! was snapped up in a deal with Phonogram , and their second single , a four track EP led by ‘ Yesterday Today ’ is out this week .
27 From Glamis , her home for the moment , Groa moved about her concerns with the farm people and tried to ignore the rumble of wagons taking felled timber to the palisade , or men with pickaxes and shovels on their way to Dunsinane , where the old ring-fort below the watch-station had received new stone-and-earth walls , and shelters for folk as well as animals .
28 This gives the car a respectable top speed of 84 mph as well as a Guinness Book of Records listed economy of 103.01 mpg on a 3,637 mile run round Britain .
29 He had improved the efficiency of pumping engines by about 300% and also provided the machine that effectively mechanised industry and was hardly improved upon for about 50 years .
30 So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein .
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