Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taken inside a wood , sheep grazed beneath tall trees that caught the sunlight filtering through them , casting long shadows towards the photographer . |
| 2 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 3 | In early 1981 under the cloak of exercises , Polish military units in strategic locations were redeployed and their barracks occupied by internal security troops . |
| 4 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 5 | ( The data given in this chapter was collected during the first six months of 1985 and employers should , therefore , bear this in mind when determining their relocation policies . ) |
| 6 | The data examined in this study give a consistent picture of behaviour changes among homosexual men which have led to a continuance of HIV transmission in this group in England and Wales . |
| 7 | Data calculated from available statistics shows that the number of livestock units/hectare of permanent grassland ( including rough grazing ) has risen from 1.45 LUs/hectare in 1961 to 1.67 in 1971 and 1.96 in 1982 , a slowly accelerating trend . |
| 8 | The size of the experimental groups was calculated to yield a power of 90% to detect a change of biological importance ( 40% ) , allowing for some experimental failures and given the SD of data calculated from preliminary studies . |
| 9 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |
| 10 | Other researchers have built neural networks to solve the problem of checking the vast amount of data gathered during mass screenings for fatal diseases such as cancer . |
| 11 | One solution to the data-collection problems outlined in 7.2 is to supplement a corpus of naturally occurring speech with data gathered by some kind of experimental method . |
| 12 | Having studied data gathered from various sources , the team has assisted staff to programme telephone handsets into ‘ hunt groups ’ , whereby calls can be answered by an alternative to prevent the call reverting to the switchboard unanswered . |
| 13 | Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods . |
| 14 | Data gathered from thousands of locations on land and sea by the Meteorological Office and the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University shows a steady rise over the last eight years , but according to scientists , it is too early to attribute this to the build up of greenhouse gases . |
| 15 | The ending of the pulse must occur before the address and data lines change their states otherwise data intended for one address may erroneously be written into the previous address as well . |
| 16 | This project constructs a database of property owners in Glasgow at benchmark years ( 1861 , 1881 , 1911 ) using data contained in this source . |
| 17 | The mere listing of resources is not enough — we need to be able to gain rapid access to data contained in these resources , through databases , text retrieval packages , geographic information systems , and image databases . |
| 18 | Much of the data contained in these early systems will have been converted to paper tape , then magnetic tape , and today to hard-disks on personal computers , at each stage accruing data conversion costs . |
| 19 | So far the demographic and market data contained in these records have not been fully extracted before the data are disposed of . |
| 20 | ISIS will offer broad access to public databases through STN International as well as in-house databases to give scientists chemical structures , related text and analytical and test data contained in relational database systems . |
| 21 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 22 | The company explains this by saying that a co-operative-server database hides the complexity of a computer network by enabling applications to access data located on multiple computers as if all the data were stored on a single computer , thus simplifying application building and — it is hoped — improving decisions by making access to information easier . |
| 23 | Labour claims 1.25m caught in Scottish poverty trap |
| 24 | These contracts covered the breaking down of damaged aircraft considered beyond economical repair to salvage repairable and reusable components . |
| 25 | However , BWD Rensburg , the broker , is looking for pre-tax profits of about £1.2m in the year ending 31 March against £1.04m reported for last year . |
| 26 | Although there are still a number of problems to be solved , in contrast to the difficulties of comparing data reported for different spatial units , these aspects of data integration are fairly well developed and understood . |
| 27 | In this chapter we concentrate on the problem of integrating geographical data reported for different areal spatial units , one of the most intractable of all data integration problems . |
| 28 | Strategies for integrating data reported at different geographical scales and for different map projections have received considerable attention over the past few decades ( Robinson et al. 1984 ; Burrough 1986 ) . |
| 29 | These types are intended to provide a structured and secure environment for data addressed by many different programs . |
| 30 | From the data presented for 19 industries in the United States by Fullerton , Shoven and Whalley ( 1978 ) , the value shares appear to vary markedly . |