Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dug-outs at some grounds have become chambers of horror , with visiting soccer bosses the sitting duck targets for verbal and , sometimes , physical abuse . |
| 2 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |
| 3 | Match-winning assaults of 69 from 51 balls against Somerset and 66 off 62 balls against Yorkshire brought Fleming his first two Gold Awards , helping Kent construct the only 100% record in the B&H zonal rounds . |
| 4 | Reference by address relative to the start of the file using the relative byte address ( RBA for short ) ; |
| 5 | This will be effected using the relational Data Manipulation Language ( DML ) of the DBMS . |
| 6 | While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets . |
| 7 | It is focused on pricing and delivering saying Unix software has outgrown the long sales cycle . |
| 8 | Data accumulated subsequently suggests that the M 52 could have been flown safely and might have given the British aircraft industry a commanding lead in supersonic fighter development . |
| 9 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 10 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 11 | As assistant manager of powerplant quality , he was caught up in Rolls-Royce 's efforts to penetrate the civil aircraft business with the Merlin . |
| 12 | Early in 1992 , we commissioned the new $130-million isomerisation plant at our Lavera refinery in France , on time and under budget . |
| 13 | At the specified time , Offline will display the offline workload at an Operator Terminal , and the Offline Operator 's task is to mount the appropriate media items requested by Offline and dismount them when Offline has completed its specified workload . |
| 14 | He had been involved with Buddhism to the point of almost becoming a monk , and had formed the mixed media troupe called Feathers , after studying mime under Lindsay Kemp . |
| 15 | Though ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ itself might have left a little to be desired , if was impossible not to enjoy the accompanying media panic . |
| 16 | Section 677 applies as if the capital sum had been paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement thus bringing the whole £100,000 worth of income , potentially , into charge to tax under s677 . |
| 17 | A spate of poor spawning years eventually produces the big fish period in the cycle . |
| 18 | The rest of the team need to support the individual staff member who has the main therapeutic role . |
| 19 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 20 | The sad fact is that although the ostensible reason for the dolphin kills was that dolphins were stealing and eating the commercial fish species , examination of their stomach contents showed that only the false killer whales were actually feeding on yellowtail . |
| 21 | There was nothing fancy , just simple , basic home cooking , which frequently had to stretch to include the destitute people Ella would invite to share the family 's meals . |
| 22 | Rescheduling the £950 million of debt does not affect the British Heron Corporation subsidiary . |
| 23 | The London Media Group has won the claimed £3m HMV UK media planning and buying account following a review last month out of Pattison Horswell Durden . |
| 24 | The pull of mountains which top the magic 3,000ft mark can be hard to resist . |
| 25 | They , too , top the magic 4000m mark . |
| 26 | Chimpanzees , which top the endangered species list , currently command a huge price in the Soviet Union , which CITES officials believe may be accounted for by their use in AIDS research . |
| 27 | This reference could include the civilian aircraft sector , which Mr Clinton spoke out on publicly last week when he accused the EC of unfairly subsidising exports by the Airbus Industrie aircraft consortium . |
| 28 | The two former East Germans were the butt of jokes when they entered the tiny 594cc car in one of the toughest tests for both man and machine . |
| 29 | While a naval officer , he invented and designed the first-ever aircraft carrier , the Angus . |
| 30 | Reportedly Coburn also advanced the name TARDIS to represent the bridge between how the ship would appear on the outside , and its size inside , namely Time And Relative Dimensions In Space — a neat piece of apocrypha to side-step explaining the revolutionary media sf concept of not having the space-ship 's interior at all resemble its exterior . |