Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feuds lower in the social scale , such as that between the Heron and Manners families from 1428 to 1431 , where both parties could count on influential support from greater men , could prove hard to solve and necessitate impartial arbitration from outside ( 209 , pp. 197–201 ) . |
| 2 | A kitchen needs something like 10 to 15 changes of air an hour when it is in use , which means , for example , that for a 3m × 2.5m kitchen an extractor fan with a capacity of around 250cu m/hr is needed . |
| 3 | Why wo n't he do that for the people of Lincolnshire now . |
| 4 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 5 | He has new boards , new wheels , t shirts , and get this about the graphics for his own deck : they depict Challenger 's final flight , the space shuttle explosion and a huge cloud of smoke . |
| 6 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 7 | Before the development of the bristles themselves , a prepattern arises in the tissue : I imagine this as a series of peaks of concentration of some inducing chemical , arising by a ‘ Turing ’ process , but this is not necessary to Stern 's argument . |
| 8 | You should continue this as a staff meeting with |
| 9 | Apart from that , the Empress had announced that if her husband went , she would accompany him — possibly using this as a means of persuading him not to go . |
| 10 | Could it be that he was aware of Van Butchell 's intentions and saw this as a means of bringing his technique to the notice of the public , being able , at the same time , to lay any charge of indecency at Van Butchell 's door , if it arose ? |
| 11 | The Patent Office also promoted the use of chemistry in soil analysis , seeing this as a means of preventing the exhaustion of nutrients . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you use this as a means to get away from me ? ’ she asked finally . |
| 13 | We 've got quite a few pupils in our school who will seize on anything like this as a means of causing friction between the various groups . |
| 14 | But why chose this as a means of capturing the hearer 's attention ? |
| 15 | Spanish race sharpei has grey cheeks with narrower black moustaches ; North African race levaillanti , treated by some as a species , similar , but male lacks red moustache and female has red only on nape or back of crown ( fortunately Grey-headed Woodpecker does not extend S of the Loire ) . |
| 16 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 17 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 18 | A table of prime numbers , selected so that they are not too near to a factor of ten , and close enough in value to allow any packing density to be selected within half of a percent , is given in Appendix 4 . |
| 19 | Roughly half of the $16 billion in fiscal stimulus that Bill Clinton proposed earlier this year was earmarked for infrastructure . |
| 20 | By irrigating land that would otherwise be desert , they produce half of the fruit and vegetables sold in the US . |
| 21 | Sift in half of the flour with the spice , then mix in half of the fruit and almonds . |
| 22 | Of ground-living mammals in Malaya over half of the species are forest animals and the elimination of the forest leads to the elimination of almost all the mammalian fauna except for a few rats . |
| 23 | Redcar 's Stead Hospital has been able to create a home from home to help rehabilitate patients , thanks to the support of the town 's Rotary Club , which raised half of the £38,000 needed to provide a therapy suite . |
| 24 | Polly Peck raised half of the £560million Del Monte Fresh Fruit purchase cost through its three-for-seven rights issue , but it has just paid £69million for control of Sansui . |
| 25 | Pitt managed to collect only half of the £10 million he had anticipated in 1799 , but better results were to be achieved when Henry Addington took over the Treasury and reshaped the taxation of incomes in his budgets of 1803 and 1804 . |
| 26 | The tail of the electric eel contains 10 000 tiny electric organs , arranged in 70 columns , and over half of the fish is given over to electricity production . |
| 27 | Over half of the people involved in agriculture are self-employed , compared with 10% in industry and 15% in the services sector . |
| 28 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 29 | Half of the people in Europe spoke English with that accent . |
| 30 | In 1981 , six of the 280 LLMAs accounted for over half of the people in Britain that had been born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan ( NCWP ) . |