Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 2 | Its function is not known as yet , but the leaf may serve as mobile camouflage to protect the fish from the eight species of kingfisher which feed along this river or it may act as a ‘ stalking horse ’ as the fish pursues its prey . |
| 3 | In the 1985/6 Westland Affair two political opponents deployed the media as part of their armoury but , in the event , both were forced to resign as the affair gained a momentum of its own . |
| 4 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 5 | Illegal political parties include the People 's Party of Brunei ( Parti Ra'ayat Brunei — PRB ) and the Brunei National Democratic Party ( BNDP ) . |
| 6 | My thanks and congratulations to all who have provided this opportunity to admire the works of natural beauty , and the works of artistic worth , all combining to give glory to God . |
| 7 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 8 | If it can raise a vast amount of capital — £1.8 billion — and believes that it is worth while to do so , surely it is possible for British Rail to commit the £100 million that is needed to electrify the main line . |
| 9 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 10 | Late in 1970 the substantial remains of Lancaster I EE173 of 207 Squadron were discovered in Lake Krumme in the suburbs of West Berlin and after the German authorities salvaged the aircraft , the RAF Museum were offered the opportunity to keep such items as might be useful for the restoration of R5868 . |
| 11 | Misuse of the data from earlier studies usually involves removing all the qualifications and careful language of the original study , thus misrepresenting and in some cases falsifying the data . |
| 12 | The failure to enforce laws is explained not by organizational complexity but by the ability of an external business and social elite to control the means of implementation . |
| 13 | The advantages to the individual company entering international selling were discussed and this was followed by aspects of how different cultures affect the sales approach . |
| 14 | This key accesses the series of Help forms associated with the option . |
| 15 | Another programme explores the fish that congregate around sunken wrecks off the British coastline . |
| 16 | THIS photograph shows the staff at the Royal Bank 's Edinburgh West End Office in 1922 shortly after they had moved from to temporary premises at . |
| 17 | For , eg , cereals , he wants to cut the EC 's intervention price by 40% , using direct aid to compensate the 4m cereal farms of less than 30 hectares . |
| 18 | Maintenance of an adequate circulation to provide the means of transport for oxygen and carbon dioxide depends not only on the correct functioning of the heart and vessels but also on the presence of an adequate amount of fluid to circulate . |
| 19 | It would only take a marginally improved thrust to give the aircraft a vastly improved ground-to-air time , a higher ceiling and a greatly boosted top airspeed . ’ |
| 20 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 21 | This process puts the data model in a form more suitable for the next stage of the methodology . |
| 22 | We hope within a few weeks to move the pair of south bound stops on Clerk Street a little to the north . |
| 23 | All coarse fishermen return the fish to the water almost immediately , unless they are involved in competition , when the fish are retained for a matter of hours in specially designed nets . |
| 24 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 25 | Mud is apt to be thrown up by aircraft wheels in landing and taking off , muddy water enters the aircraft through drainage holes and all sorts of other orifices and then the water drains out , leaving a film of wet mud . |
| 26 | This procedure ensures the fry find the source of food from their parents . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps the old gentleman told the people to wave , ’ said Bobbie . |
| 28 | This probe spanned the 25kDa/50kDa junction of the smooth muscle MHC molecule in the region suspected of showing sequence divergence . |
| 29 | Some people found the media more useful than others . |
| 30 | In spite of the inclement weather there were opportunities to stroll in the beautiful grounds , and some people visited the salmon leap in the River Kent . |