Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 2 | Earlier in 1912 Apollinaire had written a series of articles for Les Soirées de Paris and these were gathered together with some additional material to form the bulk of his Les Peintres Cubistes which was issued in March of the following year . |
| 3 | Gyggle had obtained a series of computer-visualisation models from an extra-sensory perception researcher in Texas . |
| 4 | The guide to the River Irthing in the same issue failed to mention a 10m fall in its bombing range section below Forster 's Hill although it should be fairly obvious to anyone finding enough water to paddle this section . |
| 5 | The technology may also form the core of a specialised network server , with IBM expected to ship a Mach 3.0 implementation next year . |
| 6 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 7 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 8 | Throughout the early and mid-1950s when national fuel policy emphasized volume of production this remained , but by the late 1950s with a national shift towards cheap oil the NCB had began a series of closures . |
| 9 | The system created in 1945–9 — when Stalin had established a series of puppet regimes in power in the East , and Europe had become ideologically , economically and militarily divided — now unravelled itself with astonishing speed . |
| 10 | Earlier in November right-wing police elements had perpetrated a series of attacks and assaults which resulted in four police officers being placed before the courts by Gen. Rodolfo Stange , the police director-general ( and then junta member ) . |
| 11 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 12 | Thus in the UK the Natural Environment Research Council had initiated a series of working groups to advise on the needs for future research . |
| 13 | It was n't a soufflé , Sara noticed , but something soft and avocado-coloured , with delicate pink shrimps piled high and tiny strips of raw carrot arranged to give a starfish effect . |
| 14 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
| 15 | In the first case , the purchaser had bought a £17,500 house in 1980 with an Abbey National Building Society mortgage . |
| 16 | Police said : ‘ The BMW had overtaken a series of vehicles while . |
| 17 | As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes , borstals and finally prison . |
| 18 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 19 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 20 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |
| 21 | Richard Duriez and Annette Tibbles helped to plan a series of attacks by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 22 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 23 | By 1983 the SLOA Pullman Scenic Land Cruise had become a series of oneand two-day charter trains with overnight hotel accommodation , embracing a variety of destinations — but most significantly , the Scottish rail routes to Mallaig , Oban , Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 24 | Baghoomian had claimed a 50% interest in all Basquiat 's work based on an agreement he and the artist made before Basquiat 's death . |
| 25 | Since 1983 the United Kingdom had taken a series of measures to tackle the problem of quota hopping . |
| 26 | Though Coleman found out nothing more about him from Franks/Schafer and his friends , he would remember his conversations with them later when , after the Lockerbie disaster , it emerged that US intelligence agencies had intercepted a series of telephone calls to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut from an arms dealer and presumed double agent by the name of David Lovejoy ( Loo Choy ? ) advising the chargé d'affaires of the movements of the American intelligence team who died on Flight 103 . |
| 27 | During the first week of the launch into the Critical Illness and PHI Market , Manchester Branch decided to run a series of seminars . |
| 28 | Imagine Plenty , then , when the Alice Liddell arrived ferrying a pair of cabaret artistes , as a giant paralysed space habitat under makeshift redevelopment . |
| 29 | The court heard that the girl and three pals decided to spike a fruit pastille with LSD as an end-of-year prank on Mr Lock , who has a reputation for scrounging sweets from pupils . |
| 30 | Mr Alan Milburn , Labour 's prospective parliamentary candidate for the town , wants a review of its industrial grant aid status after Kimberley-Clark chose to build a £100m. plant on Humberside rather than Darlington . |