Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livestock stocking densities are substantially higher ( 40% in 1979/80 ) in Powys than in Cantal ( though sheep predominate in the former and cattle in the latter ) . |
| 2 | Even survey data gathered by the same multinational company might differ significantly between one country and another . |
| 3 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 4 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 5 | The effects will be broadly similar in all aircraft belonging to the same group . |
| 6 | Erm , the simulator will be developed er for this aircraft starting at the same time as we enter the production investment phase . |
| 7 | Unless operations are severely restricted the risk , albeit small , will remain as long as low- and high-speed aircraft operate in the same lower airspace . |
| 8 | However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain . |
| 9 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 10 | Therefore s 1(1) was contravened when , as happened in the present case , a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer . |
| 11 | Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) . |
| 12 | Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency . |
| 13 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 14 | What did it matter if fish died after a few weeks ? |
| 15 | First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight . |
| 16 | In the three months to the end of April , housing starts rose 16pc compared with the same period in 1992 . |
| 17 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 18 | On South Georgia reindeer , introduced from Scandinavia by whalers early in the twentieth century , flourish and appear to be spreading ; horses and sheep introduced to the same island did not survive . |
| 19 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 20 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 21 | Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people . |
| 22 | Counselling can play a vital part in helping retired , or retiring , elderly people to cope with the many dilemmas and pressures such attitudes place upon them . |
| 23 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 24 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 25 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 26 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 27 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 28 | It is also the custom of certain groups who have migrated to Britain to pool resources between kin , either between people living in the same household or sometimes across households ( Anwar , 1985 , pp. 52–5 ; Brah , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | Since we wished to compare arrest rates between people living in the same small areas , we needed to obtain population numbers for these areas . |
| 30 | For people living in the same area , those in the most expensive properties should pay not more than three times as much — the maximum variation — as those in the least expensive properties . |