Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , except for flows at untypically low Reynolds number , even the most powerful current computers can not handle all the data needed for a full numerical analysis of turbulent motion . |
| 2 | This compares with just over £15m raised for the 1987 election . |
| 3 | Chatichai and Arthit were arrested at Bangkok airport aboard an aircraft bound for the royal palace in Chiang Mai , where they were to attend Arthit 's swearing-in ceremony . |
| 4 | ‘ The availability of Core-byte data allowed for the early input of important parameters such as core permeability into the test programme and increased the percentage of successful repeat formation testings , ’ said Tim Dodson , manager , Exploration Operations , Statoil . |
| 5 | Conservatives have set a target of £20,000 to raise for the General Election campaign . |
| 6 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 7 | In both cities men of £40-£99 accounted for a further 16–19 per cent . |
| 8 | This result is in general agreement with the peak generation estimate of 1.2% reflectance determined from the rapid pyrolysis data published for a German coal by Jüntgen and Klein ( 1975 ) ( Figs. 12 and 13 ) . |
| 9 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 10 | The charges , coupled with an expected loss from normal operations , will lead to a ‘ substantial loss ’ for the fourth quarter , on turnover of $51m , up a little from the $48.6m reported for the third quarter . |
| 11 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 12 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 13 | Q I have a problem with fish dying for no apparent reason . |
| 14 | There is not , of course , any serious evidence that kin support for the elderly is declining , despite the persistent myth that it is . |
| 15 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 16 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |
| 17 | Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture . |
| 18 | THE CHILL of recession is expected to be felt in today 's year end figures announced by glass giants Pilkington , with a continuing down turn in profits expected to register around £35m halved for the third year running . |
| 19 | A trout jumped for a sparkling irridescent fly . |
| 20 | When they reach retirement age , most people qualify for the basic pension , which is normally uprated once a year to keep in line with price rises . |
| 21 | Some people change for the better . |
| 22 | Harold Carter , some of you will know of him and have heard of him who was er , a preacher within one of the early preachers within the pentecostal movement in this country , and one of their teachers , said that to teach people to wait for the Holy Spirit is nothing in the world but a combination of works , and unbelief . |
| 23 | CCG run staff catering for the Royal Bank of Scotland at four locations in Edinburgh , and it is a pleasure to be involved with an organisation that thinks of food as an essential ingredient of daily working life . |
| 24 | The biggest march was in Quimper on the Brittany coast , where up to 10,000 people gathered for a silent protest which remained calm until the late afternoon when a handful of people began throwing stones and tear gas bombs . |
| 25 | When 20,000 people gathered for an illegal festival at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire last May , they brought misery to thousands living nearby . |
| 26 | On the final evening almost two hundred people gathered for an informal service in which young people 's sergeant major Eva Burrows was one of the leaders . |
| 27 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 28 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 29 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 30 | In the 1983 general election , nearly 8 million people voted for a political ticket ( Liberal/Social Democratic Party Alliance ) for which their parents could not previously have voted . |