Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But overseas activities plunged from a £1 million profit to a £13.7 million loss , the losses on property development and housing grew by 70 per cent to £17.1 million . |
| 2 | Mamore Forest is not a forest of trees but a bare upland formed into a series of individual peaks , every one of distinctive outline and separate from its fellows , every one inviting ascent . |
| 3 | They emerged as a result of substantial research undertaken by a series of urban experiments operating for the best part of a decade . |
| 4 | A story-board is a script presented as a series of drawings , so that the composition of each shot , and the flow of images from shot to shot , can be designed into a movie from the earliest stages . |
| 5 | I remember running on the rolling lawns of Kikuyu grass before dinner , the night noises of the exceptionally vocal African insect life striking up as it quickly grew dark , night unrolling from the ground upwards ; bullfrogs — in fact all manner of rana and bufo-frogs the size of a pair of roiled-up rugby socks , toads with great horned eyebrows , and tiny , reddish , darting amphibians , starting to howl , shriek , growl , and purr , a backdrop to our dinner on the terrace to which we have been summoned by the stirring , thrilling , beating of a gong hung from a pair of tusks . |
| 6 | ‘ He looked over his shoulder at me , our eyes met for a split-second , then he rushed off and I screamed . |
| 7 | The actual data produced by a graphics tablet or digitiser must be converted into information suitable for display on the screen and to this end most of the commercial products come with all the necessary software . |
| 8 | The data produced by a graphics tablet must be converted into information suitable for display on the screen and to this end most of the commercial products come with all the necessary software . |
| 9 | Jones envisaged a cinema with each seat equipped with a pair of small speakers arranged as headphones along each side of the listener 's head . |
| 10 | His swift intake of breath and the shock that flashed across his face mirrored her own as their eyes locked in a split-second of naked honesty . |
| 11 | The diagram shows an over-view of the processes involved and how they reference three types of information : the hyper-medium itself , the names of the trails made by each user held in path and a complete history held in pathitem of each path comprising an initial content-based search followed by a series of navigational commands . |
| 12 | ‘ The launch of the new GWR FM is the spring resulted in a 23% increase in hours in Bristol and Bath and the Swindon-West Wiltshire areas , ’ says Bernard . |
| 13 | FOOTBALL : Fourth Division Walsall , losing £7,000 a week , have had their long-term future assured by a £250,000 grant from their local council . |
| 14 | On this view , the 1980s are to be followed by a new long boom initiated by a series of innovations . |
| 15 | ‘ An individual shall be entitled ( a ) at reasonable intervals and without undue delay or expense ( i ) to be informed by any data user whether he holds personal data of which that individual is subject , and ( ii ) to access to any such data held by a data user ; and ( b ) where appropriate to have such data corrected or erased . ’ |
| 16 | The Mausoleum was a major structure commissioned by the Mausolus dynasty , consisting of a white marble building surmounted by a series of large sculptured figures and with extensive use of decorative sculpted friezes in the architecture . |
| 17 | In addition to this he favoured a condom made from a sheep 's intestine and a collection of two-ounce gold balls which seemingly brought security and immense satisfaction to his partners . |
| 18 | Fragmentation — the experience of work subdivided into a series of unconnected tasks not requiring the worker 's full attention — is also a common experience . |
| 19 | Barnes was laughing as he climbed out of his cockpit , and pointed at the huge hole in one wing-root made by a cannon shell and another through the opposite wing . |
| 20 | Following the publication by the Council in 1983 of the report ‘ Microcomputers in Education : A framework for research ’ by Mr Morley Sage and Mr David Smith , the Education and Human Development Committee embarked on a series of consultation exercises involving researchers , policy makers and practitioners . |
| 21 | Work used as a means to an end . |
| 22 | The council embarked on a series of complex and sophisticated manoeuvres , including interest rate swaps , swap options , and cash options which initially proved profitable — earning £13m — but which would now result in massive losses . |
| 23 | Both the nouveau roman and structuralism were able to find nourishment and encouragement in their parallel activities and in the polemical tactics both movements employed as a means of furthering their broadly similar aims . |
| 24 | Natural curls cut into a bob , swept back for evening . |
| 25 | My theory is that living in Lincolnshire most roads consist of hundred yard straights followed by a 90° bend to the right then another hundred yard straight and a 90° bend to the left — just to go round somebody 's field — in fact if it was n't for the drainage ditches you could travel in straight lines — assuming you have a Land Rover that is . |
| 26 | This not only clears away the excessive mucus , but also kills many of the parasites associated with a fluke infestation i.e. Whitespot , Trichodina Costia and Chilodonella . |
| 27 | ‘ A child choked on a fruit stone . ’ |
| 28 | You 'll have your determination tested by a series of developments that seem to squash many of your hopes and plans . |
| 29 | My 486SX-20 machine fitted with a 32Mb or memory running VGA at 640 by 480 in 16 colours |
| 30 | Maps shown on a graphics screen can be output to a dot-addressable printer using a screendump program . |