Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kuwait City itself the Iraqi forces met some opposition from elite troops guarding the Amir 's palace and from troops stationed in Army and Air Force barracks situated on the city 's outskirts . |
| 2 | He says he has appreciated every word and gesture , from the plethora of ‘ well done banners ’ to the sheep painted in the team 's colours . |
| 3 | Then , after Earl Grey tea and cucumber sandwiches and no holding back on the cake and scones , the perfectly maintained Bassey chassis repaired to the Ritz 's dining room for a photo session . |
| 4 | City of London Telecommunications Ltd , which is 90% owned by the US Fidelity Management & Research Corp , is only the second company to win a new public telephone operators licence since the creation of the British Telecommunications Plc-Mercury Communications Ltd duopoly . |
| 5 | ‘ If I remember correctly , that leads to the square beside the barracks occupied by the Kha-Khan 's night guard . ’ |
| 6 | Dell expects fiscal 1994 sales of between $3,400m and $3,700m and net profit of between $3.30 and $3.75 a share , compared with the $2.59 on sales of just over $2,000m reported for the year just ended . |
| 7 | FLA–01 was one of three such aircraft flown from the Commonwealth of Independent States to the UK for the World Helicopter Championships , to be held at Wroughton during the week following GWAD . |
| 8 | And what would happen if one of these aircraft crushed into the power station ? |
| 9 | Table 3.2 Relative proportions of postcranial elements : summary of data given in the Appendix |
| 10 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 11 | The drafting of an internal report based on raw data given in the form of graphs , notes , press cuttings , charts , tables , etc . |
| 12 | The suitability and reliability of financial and other management data developed within the organization . |
| 13 | DESIGNED for disco 's and parties , not to mention Red-Nose Day , the Tie-Pulser consists of a set of 20 l.e.d.s fastened to the front of a tie . |
| 14 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 15 | But the concept of the sacred and monumental quarter , which still makes Pisa famous , was born in the 1060s , and further advanced by a similar raid in which Pisans and Genoese joined on the great Muslim city of al-Mahdiyyah in 1087 . |
| 16 | The data gathered for the exercise clearly reflect the now very considerable research strength and performance that we possess . |
| 17 | Even survey data gathered by the same multinational company might differ significantly between one country and another . |
| 18 | At present there are almost 15,000 aircraft registered in the UK , and of these the CAA has no valid address for about one per cent of the total . |
| 19 | The original requirement specified by the FAA and still in use today , not only by all aircraft registered in the USA but also by those States which ‘ rubber stamp ’ US requirements , utilises the four channels in the following manner : |
| 20 | Some 6,000 Libyan soldiers , 850 Palestinian militiamen and five Egyptian military aircraft joined in the search for the missing plane at first light . |
| 21 | Other aircraft joined in the fight , and before it could make a second attack the Albatros found itself under attack . |
| 22 | In general , the success pupils had with tables of data depended on the complexity and clutter in the table . |
| 23 | Other developments during the late 1940s included the Yak–14 assault glider and the Yak–15 , the first jet aircraft completed in the Soviet Union and derived from the Yak–3 . |
| 24 | Thus when faced with a specification such as the following for so-called ‘ executive information systems ’ , one wonders exactly how the system is expected to filter and compress critical data received from the external environment ! : |
| 25 | Application processing is a simple check that the data received from the response matches exactly the data that was used to construct the original offer . |
| 26 | ‘ The fourth aircraft dropped outside the Harbour in an attempt to run a torpedo through the breakwater but failed to see the result . |
| 27 | Aleks ( Russia ) , a Moscow-based security company , is marketing a computer database of business partners to avoid : rather suspiciously launched on April 1 , the service — Conduit — has information on what it calls ‘ untrustworthy commercial partners ’ and the database is apparently updated by aggrieved entrepreneurs and firms that have been victims of fraud or deceit and are seeking redress ( or revenge ) — canny Aleks says it can not be responsible for the data contained on the database ; users must pay 5,000 roubles as an initial fee , plus another 100 roubles a month and 20 roubles for each reference . |
| 28 | The data contained in the DIG file can be sent to a graphics screen by the command ‘ VIEW-DIG-FILE ’ . |
| 29 | The accompanying Figure 5.5 ( adapted from data contained in the Institute for Fiscal Studies paper ) demonstrates how the system might work . |
| 30 | This chapter follows on directly ; the properties of percentages and proportions will be scrutinized more closely , and other ways of analysing contingency data considered in the quest for a summary measure of the effect of one variable upon another . |