Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final circuit example that will be analysed in this section is that of an e.m.f. being suddenly applied to a series resonant circuit at time . |
| 2 | Highly valued among a people who claimed its virtues in several ancient songs was , silverweed , ( Potentilla anserina ) : |
| 3 | The evidence that this approach will work more generally is patchy , and is furthermore based on a series of assumptions that have not been widely tested . |
| 4 | There may be some sense of cohesion in the North-East , Yorkshire , Lancashire , or the South-West , but even if this sentiment is totally lacking in the rest of England , it can be argued that these areas would be better administered by a series of regional ministries . |
| 5 | Clark ( 1973 ) assumed that , given the arrival of information , the values of the consequential price change and volume of trading are distributed independently from each other , and that each variable is independently and identically distributed over a series of information arrivals . |
| 6 | Two-year old bantam hen Betty was so taken by a pair of new-born Jack Russell pups , she decided to take them under her wing . |
| 7 | Long contested by a series of rival empires — from Egyptians and Assyrians to the French and British — it has had borders redrawn and drawn again . |
| 8 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 9 | The narrator makes his presence most felt by a series of moralistic or sacrilegious apostrophes : comments on events within the text . |
| 10 | Dry heat : This process is rarely applied as a means of disinfection as dry heat is less effective than wet heat . |
| 11 | In this article Riffaterre argues from a position already developed in a series of papers written in the late fifties and early sixties . |
| 12 | Just as America has diverse regional economies , so Britain is best seen as a series of distinct local markets . |
| 13 | By the time this column is read the curtain may have fallen on the empire created by George Walker , finally defeated by a £1.5bn debt burden . |
| 14 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 15 | AT LEAST 10 people died and 30 were critically injured in a 130mph collision between a freight wagon and a passenger train yesterday . |
| 16 | Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 . |
| 17 | Until last year the accounting systems were largely used as a means of record , not for planning . |
| 18 | Consultants appointed to study the implications for the container port of Felixstowe came to a similar conclusion but its owners , P&O , have nevertheless embarked on a £50m project to upgrade facilities by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Fish photography is probably best started with a species that stays relatively still on the gravel . |
| 20 | Shoes were no problem , and Ellie was soon fitted with a pair of navy blue leather shoes , with gently curving two inch heels . |
| 21 | This subject has already explored in a series of articles for this magazine throughout 1991 . |
| 22 | A Polypterus palmus is a nocturnal predatory fish , best kept in a species only aquarium . |
| 23 | Discus are best kept in a species only aquarium . |
| 24 | Roofs of houses are now generally constructed with a series of individual trussed rafters , which do not rely on heavy timber purlins and common rafters , as in traditionally constructed roofs . |
| 25 | Although these models are able to represent more complex situations , to some extent this has been at the cost of reduced elegance and simplicity and only the entity-relationship model of Chen is widely used as a data modelling tool . |
| 26 | We had pressed hard for these and the Inspector eventually agreed to a series at four different venues . |
| 27 | Indeed the adjustable peg system was operated in such a way that the exchange rate was rarely used as a means of adjustment , and import restrictions were not allowed under the Bretton Woods agreement . |
| 28 | So , too , was the success of John Churchill , Earl of Marlborough , whom Anne in December 1702 created a Duke , an almost unprecedented honour normally reserved for the sovereign 's sons , a promotion which he rapidly justified by a series of brilliant victories , from Blenheim in August 1704 to Malplaquet in September 1709 . |
| 29 | The present exhibition differs in that it takes a thematic approach , organising the material around six key subjects which are further examined in a series of essays in the accompanying catalogue . |
| 30 | But in everyday practical life , they continue to be uncritically regarded as a means for a true understanding of the phenomena of economic life . |