Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families and the law Investigators : Dr R W Dingwall , J M Eekelaar , M Maclean The Centre 's work in the field of family law has developed through a series of related projects clustered around a clearly focused concern with the interests of children as members of families and as individuals and with the economic and other consequences of marriage breakdown . |
| 2 | An image on a TV screen is not continuously present , but is relayed as a series of stills , twenty-five to a second . |
| 3 | AT THE start of Yukio Ninagawa 's Suicide for Love , a geisha puppet — picked out from pitch darkness by a spotlight — is manipulated through a series of formalised attitudes . |
| 4 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 5 | We have a comprehensive health education policy developed as a staff through consultation with relevant agencies . |
| 6 | His career developed as a series of rapid advances . |
| 7 | Thirdly , I hope to indicate ways in which spiritual direction might be developed as a means of nurture within the church . |
| 8 | Originally developed as a means to ensure compliance with regulations , environmental auditing now has a much wider remit for many companies . |
| 9 | ‘ In Edinburgh , the course originally developed as a means of helping foreign post-graduate students — working in subjects as diverse as architecture , law , medicine , language teaching , and the physical sciences — to write clearly and logically in English . |
| 10 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 11 | The parent company , as it now exists , was formed through a series of mergers in the late 1960s . |
| 12 | At their next meeting instructions had been given for a rendezvous . |
| 13 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 14 | This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents . |
| 15 | Even if ( and I do not accept this at all ) neutrality could only be justified as a means to a fair contest , it should not be identified with action securing a fair contest . |
| 16 | The great expenditure on education could be justified as a means to a thoroughly acceptable common end : economic growth . |
| 17 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 18 | Oral hearings were justified as a means of enabling the General Assembly , as supervisory body , to obtain detailed information about conditions in the Territory . |
| 19 | The ERM is sometimes justified as a means for beating the currency speculator . |
| 20 | Adding VAT to fuel and power is justified as a means of taxing pollution , but it would have been equally effective to remove VAT from insulation materials which , after all , reduce pollution . |
| 21 | The Conservatives ' legislation to impose legal constraints on picketing , industrial action , the closed shop , the use of political funds , and so on , was justified as a means of removing impediments , both to the flexible operation of the labour market , and to the ‘ rights ’ and liberties of individual workers . |
| 22 | The batholith is exposed as a series of large bosses and minor cupolas with which the Sn-Cu-W mineralisation of South-west England is associated . |
| 23 | The sample movements are traced as a series of oscillations whose frequency is a function of the physical state of the sample . |
| 24 | The politeness principle , like the co-operative principle , may be formulated as a series of maxims which people assume are being followed in the utterances of others . |
| 25 | It was formed as an offspring of the California Institute of Technology ( correspondingly abbreviated either to CIT or Caltech ) , and has retained its university connection ever since . |
| 26 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a 5% stock dividend paid in September 1992 , rose 40% to $0.21 . |
| 27 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a 5% stock dividend last time paid in December 1992 , rose 16.7% to $0.14 in the quarter , 26.2% to $0.53 in the year . |
| 28 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a 5% stock dividend paid in December 1992 , rose 25% to $0.15 . |
| 29 | Fernando , 52 , who had led the sea war against Tamil flotillas running arms supplies from India , was the highest-ranking officer to be assassinated during a series of recent assaults against senior military personnel . |
| 30 | The leopard has been listed as a species in danger of extinction since CITES was concluded in Washington 10 years ago , which is why you do not , or at least should not , see leopard skin coats and hats in London 's expensive fur shops . |