Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Omeprazole , one of the group of substiuted benzimidazoles , is a weak base with a pK of 4.0 . |
| 2 | The possibility of controlling the monetary base as a means of influencing monetary growth is discussed in section 9.1 . |
| 3 | Discussion of the various phenomena of ‘ exposure learning ’ in Chapter 1 revealed just such an effect — rats given prolonged exposure to a pair of stimuli presented in their home cages learned a subsequent simultaneous discrimination between these stimuli more readily than subjects for whom the test stimuli were novel ( Gibson and Walk 1956 ) . |
| 4 | In view of the emphasis that is put upon regional aid as a means of ensuring a more even distribution of the benefits of the SEM , this is perhaps surprising . |
| 5 | Of all varieties of the Christian faith , it seemed best able to accommodate his persistent search for a means to link the truths of philosophy and religion , and his almost pantheistic sense of the ‘ Absolute Unity ’ shared by God and his creation . |
| 6 | But whereas Eleanor Bowen once used drawing as a means of recording for posterity what was immediately in front of her eyes , I am thinking in particular of those powerfully smudged charcoal drawings of the interior of Darlington Railway Station nowadays she goes far beyond this to evoke the feelings of considerable ill and unease . |
| 7 | Robert Simpson and Son admitted that a wooden stairway in a poultry house at Duchlage farm , Crieff , broke during use . |
| 8 | Five days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 Turkey had unequivocally placed itself in the anti-Iraq camp with a series of economic sanctions ( including the blocking of the pipelines which were Iraq 's principal route for the export of oil ) which were to prove crucial , as Turkey was one of Iraq 's major trading partners [ see p. 37641 ] . |
| 9 | PLANNING clearance was given yesterday for the shore-based part of a £1.5 billion gas project which will create spin-off contracts for firms in the offshore supply business , writes Frank Frazer . |
| 10 | The borough council teamed up with Durham County Council and British Rail for a £6m facelift . |
| 11 | Court was wearing a light robe over a pair of pale blue pyjamas . |
| 12 | The Thatcher government 's strong stance on many issues won much popular support amongst a people weary of attempts to defy the law by left-wing local authorities , strike pickets , or disaffected journalists . |
| 13 | For normal flash photography with a 50mm lens , the aperture is usually seat at f/5.6 — but with the macro lens in close-up mode , the best results were obtained between f/11 and f/22 . |
| 14 | The scandal , widely known as " Western Australia Inc " , centred upon the loss of more than A$1,000 million ( approximately US$690 million ) of public money in a series of ill-fated ventures involving entrepreneurs including Alan Bond , the former chairman of Bond Corporation Holdings , Laurie Connell , head of the collapsed Rothwells merchant bank , and the late Robert Holmes à Court . |
| 15 | A mother ewe with two lambs in the field behind the house one morning demonstrated her strong maternal instincts when she successful saw off a two year old steer with a series of savage head butts . |
| 16 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 17 | THE housebuilder Bellway yesterday joined the lengthening queue of UK companies that have returned to their shareholders for fresh equity with a £33.6 million rights issue , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 18 | The ODA have refused to comment on allegations of £35 million worth of " bribes and backhanders " to secure a British bid for a £400 million hydroelectric scheme in Pergau , northern Malaysia |
| 19 | In this instance we are again studying a very real struggle , with gangs looting , scavenging and turning to organised crime as a means of scraping together a living . |
| 20 | He stood up , almost overturning his easel which , Robbie noticed now , held an incredibly competent and beautifully detailed study of a species of thistle . |
| 21 | And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical . |
| 22 | Climbing steep snow in a series of zigzags as in ( Fig. 2b ) , the axe is held in the uphill hand and the rope goes on the downhill side direct to the next person on the rope . |
| 23 | Despite his programmatic emphasis in the Archaeology on the discursive formation as a means of making intelligible those knowledges that are formulated through their institutional components , Foucault turned away from this kind of historical enquiry because it was too ‘ clean , conceptually aseptic ’ — in other words , too apolitical . |
| 24 | Gaitskell saw public ownership as a means of assisting moves toward equality and a classless society . |
| 25 | The numbers of the histograms correspond with those of the cases shown in Table I. Each top half of a pair shows the DNA distribution in the upper one third , and the bottom half shows that in the lower two thirds . |
| 26 | In this , an authoritarian voice addresses the would-be meditator in a series of injunctions to remember the various events in the Passion story and to pray for mercy . |
| 27 | The search of Clinton 's files had been ordered in September 1992 , at the height of the election campaign , in an effort to find evidence that the Democratic candidate had , while a student in the UK , sought to obtain foreign nationality as a means of avoiding being drafted for service in the Vietnam War . |
| 28 | At the back of the shop we found an old mannequin with a bob hair-do and a 1920s low-waisted dress . |
| 29 | A high score in a series of heats had to be accumulated to guarantee a good semi-final position , and qualify for one of the six places in the final . |
| 30 | The first move was to galvanise scientific opinion by a series of regional and national debates on science policy . |