Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brazil 's faith in debt/equity swaps as a means of easing the burden has been shared by many . |
| 2 | The closure of the Talbot works in Linwood in Scotland , announced in February 1981 , with its resulting localised mass unemployment , is a pointed reminded of the limitations of cheap loans or grants as a means of maintaining the allegiance of capitalist enterprises to given investment projects . |
| 3 | In the first wave , Freud said , a child goes through a series of phases centring on various erogenous or erotogenic zones of the child 's body . |
| 4 | As an early observer remarked , ‘ If a big muskrat goes after a mink with mayhem in mind and carving tools in front , the mink may not care to accept the sporting challenge . ’ |
| 5 | The Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study has for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in 1971 , brought together census information , with information about geographic movements noted in the National Health Service Central Register in 1971-74 . |
| 6 | Looks like a pair of yours . |
| 7 | make laughing , a derogatory terming degenerate or C , a penis that 's so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles ? |
| 8 | No C , a penis so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles , they 'll be killing themselves wo n't they ? |
| 9 | If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad . |
| 10 | If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad . |
| 11 | Legislation in the nineteenth-century Russian Empire looks like a series of royal fiats , but the laws whch freed the serfs emerged from a process which the tsar barely understood and over which he had only partial control . |
| 12 | Dhallagiri in Nepal , the peak that looks like a fish tail ( right ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 're horrid to tell me lies too , and make out that when you 're married you 're going to get up to horrible … such disgusting … with that man who looks like a fish with cold yellowish eyes and greeny-yellow skin … . ’ |
| 14 | This tough and challenging rural course finishes with a series of hills , which seem to grow steeper and more demanding as the time to challenge them comes around . |
| 15 | Every training session starts with a series of health exercises . |
| 16 | The installation 's theme explores the relationship between creativity and evil , and concludes with a pair of collection boxes for victims of violence placed on either side of an amateur portrait made by a murderer . |
| 17 | The project extends into the early part of the fifth year , which concludes with a series of industrially-oriented modules using innovative teaching methods . |
| 18 | Catherine , who lives in a £130,000 town house in |
| 19 | Altdorf stands on a series of islands amongst the broad mud flats which surround the confluence of the rivers Reik and Talabec . |
| 20 | Singer SHEENA EASTON , 33 , who thanks to a series of shrewd property deals in California is 36th richest with £39.4 million . |
| 21 | He lives on a fruit farm and helps to pick apples . |
| 22 | Each number roughly corresponds to a 100°C temperature change , giving a band of 100–600°C . |
| 23 | On page 10 IAN LUCAS looks at a catfish set-up . |
| 24 | In two respects , however , the definition is wider than at common law in that the Act ( a ) renders a species dangerous if it poses a threat to property and ( b ) allows for a species to be considered dangerous if it is not commonly domesticated in Britain , even though it may be so domesticated overseas . |
| 25 | If this notion of looking ahead in order to see behind is understood temporally , it can be recognized as the constitutive structure of narrative itself , which Genette describes as a series of ‘ déterminations rétrogrades ’ in that the action of a story is a function of its outcome ( 1969:94 ) . |
| 26 | He sanctioned the use of cash limits as a means of control . |
| 27 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 28 | 7 HE features in a series of US TV cartoons , including the Super Mario Bros Show . |
| 29 | He keys in a series of numbers on a phone which generate letters on a screen which Ray can read . |
| 30 | Development occurs in a series of stages , the conclusion of each stage being the starting-point of the next . |