Example sentences of "[det] [verb] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that to fool the staff or fool the customers ? |
| 2 | All this drives the media towards a largely predictable way of selecting and presenting events : what Tuchman ( 1974 ) has called ‘ routinising the unexpected ’ . |
| 3 | This , they suggest , was done on 17 December 1949 when the JCS proposed that the $75 m. fund should include French Indo-China , as well as Burma and Thailand , and this provided the means for an early programme of assistance in the French struggle against Ho Chi Minh . |
| 4 | The lowering of pH in fact causes aluminium to be released from clays ( in which it abounds ) , and this causes the fish 's gills to produce mucus , which reduces their ability to absorb oxygen . |
| 5 | This places the people in a dilemma ; while they reject the Compact of Free Association , the Trusteeship Agreement with respect to Palau remains in force , depriving them of their right to self-determination . |
| 6 | This kills the fish and plant life . |
| 7 | This caused the aircraft to turn downwind rapidly . |
| 8 | This allows the carp no slack whatsoever and no opportunity , therefore , to shed the hook . |
| 9 | This panics the fish , which immediately bolts , comes up against the heavy bomb which pulls the hook in some more , and then the back stop hits the bomb and penetration of the hook is complete . |
| 10 | This increases the fish 's view just as a car 's rear-view mirrors give us an impression of the scene behind . |
| 11 | This leads the staff into some contortions since logic would suggest that those who ‘ consume ’ more than their fair share of ‘ teacher time ’ should lose some in the future rather than take up still more as the monitoring of the punishment will entail . |
| 12 | As such , he or she has to work closely with the creative people and with media : in some agencies this includes the media planning , too . |
| 13 | This impoverishes the 4m Sahelians , most of whom have no alternative to cattle farming . |
| 14 | Each raster is thus refreshed every second if interlacing is used , and this reduces the data transmission requirements to 26 214 400 bits per second ( c. 26 MHz ) and 104857 600 bits per second ( c. 105 MHz ) respectively . |
| 15 | After the store closes in the evening , this sends the data by satellite to Kmart 's head office in Troy , another suburb of Detroit . |
| 16 | Fifth , churches are planted because this preserves the fruit of YWAM 's evangelism . |
| 17 | In 1346 Archbishop Stratford was ordered to read to the clergy and laity assembled in St Paul 's churchyard a recently discovered Franco-Norman agreement ( actually concluded in 1339 ! ) to invade England ; publication was to be accompanied by a sermon and a solemn procession , ‘ so that by this means the people of the kingdom might be roused to esteem the king more fervently and pray more devoutly for his expedition in order that he may keep the people safe from Gallic machinations ’ . |
| 18 | This gives the fish space in which to set up their own territories and a chance to survive if your system breaks down . |
| 19 | In many respects this releases the staff and pupils from the moral imperative and may well come closer to an authentic understanding of the pupil 's experience . |
| 20 | This attracts the fish to it and the fish tries to eat it . |
| 21 | This continues the series of major loan exhibitions from the British Museum to the University of East Anglia past subjects include Benin bronzes which have been made possible due to the high standard of the exhibition space , security arrangements and environment control in Norwich , which meets the Museum 's stringent loan requirements . |
| 22 | This enables the data to be searched for patterns so placing theories within the constraints of empirical evidence . |
| 23 | Under the chairmanship of Sir Douglas Black , a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons , this accepted the statistics but could find no scientific logic to the link with the reprocessing plant . |
| 24 | Some sort of guard was needed on this to prevent the fish from swimming into the pipe and hence to the header pool . |
| 25 | This leaves the fish looking in a very sorry state with ragged fins , sometimes accompanied by haemorrhaging around the edges . |
| 26 | This brings the aircraft back into balance and instantly increases both the capacity and length of the cargo floor , or cabin if seats are to be installed . |
| 27 | This makes the sperm , like all rapidly developing cells , especially vulnerable to damage from chemicals or radiation . |
| 28 | Few have the means or the inclination to do so . |
| 29 | This supports the data from the Copenhagen Oesophageal Varices Sclerotherapy Project suggesting that sclerotherapy may be harmful to patients with encephalopathy . |
| 30 | At the end of IC1 ( ‘ daily ’ ) timing cycle , the low state of pin 3 is applied to pin 1 ( the trigger input ) through resistor R4 — this re-triggers the i.c. and initiates a further timing cycle . |