Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help text is arranged in a series of levels from brief prompts displayed on the current page to , in some cases , subsequent levels containing several screens of information , guidance and explanation . |
| 2 | Opponents to the development believe that it is intended as a means of attracting the winter Olympics to the area . |
| 3 | The jazz scene confirmed his liking for youthful excitement and the importance that his student friends now had in his life is registered in a series of portraits . |
| 4 | This sequence of interpretations is highlighted by a series of opposed associations : an uninitiated girl , a menstruating woman , and an uncircumcised boy are all alike in lacking whiteness . |
| 5 | The molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid , DNA , that provides the programme for living creatures , is formed by a pair of right handed helices in parallel . |
| 6 | Presented by CIRCUS , the independent arts project , the trail 's core is formed by a series of informal exhibitions . |
| 7 | In the USA and Canada the action for breach of statutory duty is regarded as a species of negligence called statutory negligence . |
| 8 | This , it seems , is the last stronghold of mainframe publishing where , essentially , the document is regarded as a data base and every change made to that information is recorded . |
| 9 | Adding VAT to fuel and power is justified as a means of taxing pollution , but it would have been equally effective to remove VAT from insulation materials which , after all , reduce pollution . |
| 10 | The visitor to ‘ Home of the Brave ’ is treated to a series of ‘ complete installations ’ in the words of Glasgow 's Keeper of Exhibitions Deborah Haase , involving a journey through ‘ dramatic theatrical settings ’ including standing on a jetty with simulated water swirling underneath ( actually blue light ) . |
| 11 | The sky , too , is treated as a series of planes continuing the composition up to the top of the canvas , so that there is very little suggestion of depth even behind the buildings and mountains on the horizon . |
| 12 | The batholith is exposed as a series of large bosses and minor cupolas with which the Sn-Cu-W mineralisation of South-west England is associated . |
| 13 | Predictably he is exposed to a series of character-forming reverses , but these are astonishingly tame . |
| 14 | An image on a TV screen is not continuously present , but is relayed as a series of stills , twenty-five to a second . |
| 15 | If , for example , the site is excavated in a series of small trenches in order to gain the maximum amount of information about the stratigraphy , it is then very difficult to understand the plan view of the site . |
| 16 | AT THE start of Yukio Ninagawa 's Suicide for Love , a geisha puppet — picked out from pitch darkness by a spotlight — is manipulated through a series of formalised attitudes . |
| 17 | Salt from sea water , pumped from the Dead Sea nearby is collected in a structure rather like a swimming pool which is contained within a series of dykes . |
| 18 | The statement of reasons of a Community legislative measure is contained in a series of paragraphs at the beginning of the measure . |
| 19 | At the eight-celled stage the yellow cytoplasm is confined to a pair of adjacent cells . |
| 20 | The rarest hornbill is almost certainly the Narcondam , which is confined to a 15km 2 island of that name and is being studied by S A Hussain of the Bombay Natural History Society . |
| 21 | India 's major government policy is set and its large-scale capital expenditure is committed in a series of Five Year Plans . |
| 22 | In all cases the other is neutralized as a means of encompassing it : ontology amounts to a philosophy of power , an egotism in which the relation with the other is accomplished through its assimilation into the self . |
| 23 | The contemplation of the manhood is organised as a series of meditations on the Passion attached to the Canonical Hours in the same order of events as in the Primer but in a more extended form . |
| 24 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |
| 25 | Continuing in the same direction , Long Drop Cave may be seen at the base of a low cliff , and this is succeeded by a series of minor potholes known as the Eyeholes which seem almost friendly by comparison . |
| 26 | Well the as you 'll have noticed the course is designed around a series of talks but they are by no means lectures . |
| 27 | NEWCASTLE boss Kevin Keegan is caught in a £500,000 tug-of-war over Swedish import Kennet Andersson . |
| 28 | Investment of between £4 billion and £5 billion is forecast in a series of developments focused round a pipeline network expected to carry 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day to Teesside . |
| 29 | The school is scattered in a series of classrooms that dot several interlocking valleys . |
| 30 | In the centre is a circular sectioned baluster moulding and at the top an oval moulding which is decorated with a pair of deeply recessed ring and dot designs . |