Example sentences of "[noun] [n mass] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 2 | The attack in the south was focused in the main on Dezful , where Iran had a major air base , and on Ahwaz , the principal town of Iran 's southwestern province of Khuzestan and site of the field headquarters of the country 's inland oil-production operations , with an important oilfield on the spot and the junction of the crude oil pipeline system leading northwards to domestic refining centres . |
| 3 | The fact that Hitler was out of Germany , at the Führer Headquarters in the east , and engaged in the conduct of the war against the Bolshevik arch-enemy — a war which he had long prophesied as inevitable in order to defend Christian Europe — evidently made it unthinkable for many that he could have anything to do with the ‘ godless Bolshevism ’ of the brownshirts at home . |
| 4 | Croatian separatist forces won back a degree of control by instigating a blockade of JNA barracks throughout the republic of Croatia , forcing the occupants to surrender with their tanks and equipment . |
| 5 | In the early hours of March 1 a group of four soldiers seized weapons and ammunition from the Ministry of Defence headquarters in the fort of Tiuna in the capital . |
| 6 | HSC , a joint venture between DSM of the Netherlands and Tosoh of Japan , plans to spend $60m ( £33m ) to quadruple its present aspartame capacity to 2000 t pa by the end of 1993 in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of the fast growing aspartame market . |
| 7 | Gravity data are expressed relative to a base 5km from the summit which has proved to be gravitationally invariant with respect to other stations further down the volcano flanks and off the volcano . |
| 8 | In the quarter ending June 1989 , 37.5% of night visits in Berkshire and 45.6% nationally were done by deputies ; these proportions dropped to 14.8% in Berkshire in the year ending September 1992 and 28.1% nationally in the year ending March 1991 ( calculated from payment data as the health service indicators no longer record the percentage of visits done by deputies ) . |
| 9 | There is a research team at the European University Institute who are gathering enterprise level data on the basis of both balance sheets and questionnaires put to workers and managers . |
| 10 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 11 | For instance , forecasts for the total sales of bread , cakes and other bakery products in the UK can be calculated for any particular segment on the basis of trade and census data on the number of people in different socioeconomic classes ( see later chapters ) , their per capita consumption of bakery products , and trends in the consumption pattern as between standard lines , such as wrapped white bread , and value added lines such as wholemeal bread , cream cakes , crispbread etc . |
| 12 | USAFM hope also to take on a series of former Desert Storm aircraft in the wake of recent retirements . |
| 13 | Install one of these and you can send computer data over the line without a modem ; voice traffic will have to be converted to digital form by special phone or exchange equipment . |
| 14 | 29 A monkey tries to reach a branch 5½m above the ground by standing on the shoulders of an elephant 4 ¼m high . |
| 15 | Literature data on the thermodynamics of the coil-helix transition for the single stranded poly ( C ) [ 8,9 ] and poly ( A ) [ 10-12 ] RNA sequences , poly ( dA ) DNA [ 12 ] and data on mixed-sequence DNA oligomers [ 13 ] are collated in Table 1 . |
| 16 | Some of the areas which will be tackled include the analysis of spatial data , the analysis of time series data the analysis of discrete response data including the use of linear models and a study of measurement error . |
| 17 | Roquelaure arranged for him to visit DGSE headquarters on the boulevard Berthier ring road . |
| 18 | At one time it was the Swanage headquarters of the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters . |
| 19 | Tensions in Tbilisi were already running high after activists from the Society of St Ilya the Righteous ( one of the organizations in the Round Table ) had ransacked Georgia 's KGB headquarters on the night of Sept. 17-18 , in protest at the detention of one of their number on suspicion of taking part in a raid on a police station . |
| 20 | in respect of each and every incident of loss 3% of the cost ( as at the date the claim is notified to the Society ) of re-building as new the whole of the Private Dwelling and its outbuildings |
| 21 | One stipulation of Lend-Lease agreements signed in 1941–2 was that Britain should concentrate on the production of fighter and bomber aircraft for the war effort ; its transport needs would be met by American aircraft . |
| 22 | The model thus fails to capture the inherent complex object structure of multi-media data including the fragmentation features discussed by Tompa in his earlier work . |
| 23 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 24 | Bob , who retired from xxxxxx xxxxxx at the end of 1992 is seen escorting his daughter Wendy to her wedding last October . |
| 25 | The main research data from the study takes the form of the recorded discussions of the students . |
| 26 | His daughter Agnes , married to Robert Huberd , citizen and mason of London , carried on her father 's business as a monumental mason and in 1358–9 was paid £106 18s. 11d. for the alabaster tomb of Queen Isabella , widow of Edward II , set up in the church of the London Greyfriars . |
| 27 | Identification : Easily distinguished from other ornamental pond fish by the lack of barbels around the mouth , elongate shape and short dorsal and anal fin . |
| 28 | Tickets £2.50 , concessions £1.50 at the door . |
| 29 | This flounder brace earned Teignmouth , south Devon , angler Roy Repton first prize in last week 's Anglers Mail Fish of the Week contest . |
| 30 | Whatever his secret , it works well as the 5 pound trout in the freezer at BMK discovered . |