Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 3 dB angle of the detector was reduced to 20° using the new collimator . |
| 2 | Several towns in the valley have textile industries which started when water wheels were used for power and local sheep provided the raw wool . |
| 3 | The Kurdish delegates , to underline the point that they too are Iraqi , speak up against any violation of sovereignty ; they may also be proposing that the Kurdish guerrillas be somehow absorbed into the Iraqi armed forces as a local militia protecting the autonomous zone . |
| 4 | Instead , RUC headquarters provided the following statement in response to a number of questions we raised about the case . |
| 5 | Reliance on such data produced the systematic behaviour theories of Thorndike , Hull and Skinner . |
| 6 | Having brought up a tray of pizza , salad and fresh fruit , from a capacious pocket Rosa produced the missing locket . |
| 7 | Just which aircraft became the famous Faith , Hope and Charity — if ever they were marked as such — is unclear . |
| 8 | Another example of the multivariate approach is provided by Webber and Craig ( 1978 ) who used 40 variables from the 1971 Small Area Statistics Census data to classify the British population into six main family types and a number of sub-clusters , making 30 groups altogether , as shown in a simplified form in Figure 5.6 . |
| 9 | Examination of the aircraft revealed the horizontal stabilizer was in the full travel nose-down position and beyond the micro switch stop . |
| 10 | As executive jets and smaller piston-engined aircraft fly the final approach to Teterborough 's runways , the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan are only five miles away . |
| 11 | The disparity in the data highlights the marginal significance now of gender as a predictor of voting behaviour . |
| 12 | Durham county council 's deputy leader , Coun. Bob Pendlebury , said : ‘ We are making immediate representations to the Government , but if we do not get a favourable response , we will have to cut back our education budget by up to £3m. to find the extra money . |
| 13 | Finally , our data donfirm the longitudinal stability of the kinetic markers ( both total labelling index and compartmental distribution of labelled cells ) over time . |
| 14 | Since a TV screen works on the refresh principle , that is , the image on the screen is updated every second , the data forming the displayed image must be sent from the computer to the screen every second or the picture will fade . |
| 15 | A sixteen year old schoolboy has invented a system which enables the deaf to use a phone.It uses the ordinary keypad on the telephone to generate messages on a screen.The invention has gained Richard Mead a place in the finals of a national competition.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 16 | Although Soler did not provide any comparative evidence , our data show the opposite pattern . |
| 17 | The following data show the national income figures , price indices and population for a hypothetical country in 1988 and 1989 : |
| 18 | A much more satisfying treatment of the data uses the double extrapolation method proposed by Zimm , which leads to the shape independent parameter . |
| 19 | The EP rapporteur Geoffrey Hoon ( UK , Labour ) explained : ‘ The collection and processing of data permeates the daily life of almost everyone in the European Community , concern grows over possible abuses . |
| 20 | Similarly , our data confirm the direct relationship between active disease and decreased peptic activity as well as normalisation of the activity after antibiotic therapy and eradication of the infection . |
| 21 | Inspection of the raw data reveals the primary reason : on the first repetition most subjects were ignoring most of the dynamic aspects of the decision problem , and their attempts at estimating the myopically optimal output were generally rather poor . |
| 22 | For example , the British 1971 Sample Census data give the following picture : The implication of such substantial discrepancies can not simply be ignored . |
| 23 | Since women 's place in the sociology of work is very much a secondary one it follows that we do not have enough empirical data to determine the relative importance to women of their experiences in the occupational sector . |
| 24 | The data allow the medical school greater control over the teaching going on in the hospitals . |
| 25 | We used these data to calculate the annual age specific prevalence of HIV-1 infection at initial HIV-1 testing among homosexual men . |
| 26 | The position of the crash was consistent with the aircraft entering the eastern entrance — flying just above sea level — with the intention of turning east after dropping and attempting to escape along the coast at low level . |
| 27 | They emphasised that the data represented the successful application of labels to acts — on a highly selective basis , reflecting the kinds of people agents of control such as the police regard as likely suspects , or as being dangerous enough to warrant official action . |
| 28 | The everyday defects and difficulties that arise , such as the catering truck that backs into an aircraft puncturing the pressurised fuselage near the door or the mainwheel tyre that throws its tread on take-off , and the thousand and one other events that amount to a deviation from normal operation of the aircraft , are all investigated to some extent , according to how serious they might be , and a report is raised to the appropriate department which should then effect the necessary corrective action . |
| 29 | RPM reached the full Cabinet on 14 January 1964 . |
| 30 | During the Gulf war New Zealand dispatched two army medical teams and two air force Hercules transport aircraft to assist the US-led coalition against Iraq . |