Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drove past a housing development called Anzio Acres and the lumpy greens of a golf course and then past buildings reserved for Psy Ops , and the headquarters of Special Forces , with its monument to John F Kennedy and its statue of an old Green Beret . |
| 2 | as if they knew that the problem was not resolved a letter arrived yesterday from the headquarters of British Bakeries . |
| 3 | After further discussion it was agreed that , due to the complexities of the regulations surrounding financial transactions , and the obligation to make regular returns to the headquarters about financial matters , investigation of the FI category seemed to offer the most potential for improvement . |
| 4 | Yesterday 's 9p drop to 370p took the shares to an 18-month low ahead of the promised interim announcement on the dispute between the tunnel developer and its contractors over the £800m of extra payments they are claiming . |
| 5 | But this goat , which is kept with the sheep for similar reasons , has to be separated . |
| 6 | For the fry of large cichlids the food need not be this fine and one method to produce a powder fine enough is described below . |
| 7 | The data for non-right handers collected by Rasmussen and his colleagues show approximately two thirds of left handers to have left sided speech while the remaining third are divided between those with speech on the right side and those with speech represented bilaterally . |
| 8 | The data for developed countries are from official vital statistics and special surveys ( with the official data having greater credibility than similar registered data for less advanced nations ) , while the material for developing countries has been taken mainly from results of the World Fertility Survey and the WHO Collaborative Studies on Health and Family Formation . |
| 9 | In practice , most information was obtained from a single highly intelligent , articulate and linguistically aware speaker , on whom Dixon relied almost totally ; his procedure then was to check the data for idiolectal idiosyncrasies against the judgement of one other . |
| 10 | Since sociolinguistics is full of incomplete theories and unanswered questions , it is often more important to find ways of thoroughly searching the data for different types of pattern than to generate hypotheses which might well be premature . |
| 11 | Smooth the data on negative perceptions of household finances in the past ( column 3 of figure 9.5 ) . |
| 12 | The defeatists felt that the power of the torturers was too great to try to combat ; the purists were too busy discussing semantics to take up the real problems ; the perfectionists thought that the data on human rights was too imprecise to be used for high quality research ; the paradigm thinkers believed that massive political and social changes would be necessary before torture could be stopped ; many other concerned persons were involved in other cases , such as environment , ecology , animal rights , etc . |
| 13 | The chapter begins by exploring some of the limitations of the data on low-income households . |
| 14 | Furthermore , eye movements include vertical as well as lateral deviations of gaze and the general tendency to pay little or no attention to vertical eye movements may have important implications for interpretation of the data on horizontal movements . |
| 15 | A second point is that any company that takes over the satellites would want to sell the data to private individuals and organisations around the world . |
| 16 | We structure the data into simplified snapshots , attributes , traits and types , and attempt to give ourselves the understanding we need and to predict the behaviour of others from this process . |
| 17 | Despite the rapid increase in the number of large-scale excavations of settlements , only three have been published ( Bell 1977 ; Millett 1983 ; West 1985 ) ; a similar problem pertains with the number of cemeteries examined since the Second World War and which remain unpublished , denying a generation of researchers the data from modern excavations . |
| 18 | A copy of the 1991 Census datasets will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive ( where it will join the data from previous Censuses ) when the data is complete and it appears that all corrections have been made . |
| 19 | The tracers were seen bouncing off the other breakwater , which by this time was also firing at the aircraft with similar results . |
| 20 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 21 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 22 | The biggest institutes — the publicly financed research departments of the Konrad Adenauer foundation and its Social Democratic equivalent , the Friedrich Ebert Foundation — are , after all , the offspring of political parties . |
| 23 | The Government warns that the offspring of affected women could also develop Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease . |
| 24 | The costs of outbreeding may include the risks of infections from pathogens carried by the partner and the breaking up in the offspring of co-adapted complexes of genes found in the parents . |
| 25 | The middle-class capitalist required the legitimacy of all his children not only to protect his possessions from being enjoyed by the offspring of other men but to ensure the loyalty of his sons who might be business partners , and of his daughters who might be essential in marriage alliances . |
| 26 | In the longer term the offspring of depressed mothers are more likely to suffer from childhood depression . |
| 27 | If she had been the offspring of drunken parents in Scotland Road , or born with a hair-lip like Ma Tang 's daughter , there might be some excuse for feeling as she did . |
| 28 | And indeed his stock might well go back to just such stubborn settlers , survivors after the death of this city , the offspring of time-expired legionaries and the daughters of enterprising local middlemen . |
| 29 | Convinced that they are the ideal match , these lovers who are often the offspring of divorced parents not wanting to repeat their mistakes conspire not to let anything spoil the relationship . |
| 30 | He gained a reputation for being broad minded , and welcomed homosexuals , single parents and black Jews ( the offspring of Jewish mothers and West Indian fathers ) who sometimes get a frosty reception elsewhere . |