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 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Conservatives have set a target of £20,000 to raise for the General Election campaign .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 Q I have a problem with fish dying for no apparent reason .
9 There is not , of course , any serious evidence that kin support for the elderly is declining , despite the persistent myth that it is .
10 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 .
11 Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture .
12 A trout jumped for a sparkling irridescent fly .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 When 20,000 people gathered for an illegal festival at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire last May , they brought misery to thousands living nearby .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Letting someone else decide — most often manifest in people applying for a wide range of jobs perhaps with little in , because they are unable to decide which is most appropriate for them and hoping that somehow the right choice will be made by the employers themselves .
23 Former Royal Shakespeare Company actress Charlotte Cornwell had more luck when she was awarded £11,000 to compensate for a vile personal attack on her in the " News of the World " over her performance in a new television series .
24 Getting these two sets of very different people to work for a common cause is n't always easy but , as well as you can , make sure both understand that :
25 It all seems to be about using one or two people to stand for a whole sensibility , but thereby creating the impression that they were somehow alone in the field .
26 The progressive questioning of the staff made for a terrible atmosphere in the Staff Common Room .
27 At night the harbour lights up and the atmosphere becomes electric as the streets of Aghios Nikolaos fill up with people looking for a good time in the restaurants , bars and discos .
28 We had always known that there were many people looking for a historic building to restore but had not realized the extent , which was very encouraging .
29 ‘ I hate , ’ Mrs Gray burst out passionately , ‘ people looking for a certain sort of reaction from me about it .
30 Pippa Raudsepp , residential mortgage manager with independent financial advisers London & Country Mortgages , said : ‘ For people looking for a new mortgage the rates are quite good .
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