Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the cut-off value of 5.5 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea patients had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 38% , and positive predictive value of 73% for separating reversible renal failure from CRF , and a cut-off value of 0.2 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 58% , and positive predictive value of 80% for separating the two conditions . |
| 2 | The chemical company Albright and Wilson has been fined £1,000 for polluting the Irish Sea near its works in Whitehaven , Cumbria , six weeks after it was fined £2,000 for another pollution offence . |
| 3 | Similarly , a cut-off value of 2.6 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 76% , and positive predictive value of 65% for distinguishing the two conditions , and a cut-off value of 0.15 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 73% , and positive predictive value of 63% . |
| 4 | Data for calculating the thermal history more objectively do not yet seem to be available ( but see Chadwick 1985a ) . |
| 5 | In developing the future size and shape of the Royal Navy , the Admiralty had two useful and recent precedents : the successful use of carrier-borne aircraft in interdicting the Chinese supply routes during the Korean War ; and the much more recent use of carriers to provide the lion 's share of tactical air support during the Suez landings , and the ad hoc use of the carriers Theseus and Ocean as Commando-helicopter-carriers in the amphibious assault on Port Said . |
| 6 | The Swindon Town hard-man was fined £1,200 for attacking the Scottish striker Jim Melrose , breaking his cheekbone in three places . |
| 7 | One fan who did n't mind the crush was student Allan Brett who scooped £10,000 after winning the National Computer Games Championships . |
| 8 | These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , he has won £150,000 in capturing the chief executive 's job at the exchange . |
| 10 | Bertha Cohen spoke slowly , as if recounting something by rote , her hands intent on the job of scooping out each piece of fish without breaking the enclosing skin . |
| 11 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 12 | But in the last three years , they have invested more than £500,000 in improving the 30-acre Sunningdale site , adding huge glasshouses and improving the show gardens . |
| 13 | A newspaper report that Lord Glenconner had spent over £500,000 on entertaining the rich and famous at his 60th birthday party a few years ago , must have made his hard-working forebears turn in their graves . |
| 14 | During the hearing , the judge was told that a deficit of £27,000 on running the playing fields in the last financial year had been met by a council subsidy . |
| 15 | Punishing people for disobeying the existing laws — which maintain the status quo and the position of the ruling class — functions to reinforce the power and privilege of that class . |
| 16 | Leslie Grantham was there to open an art exhibition , and he praised the staff for encouraging the artistic talents of the prisoners . |
| 17 | If as we indicated , Grice 's theory of meaning-nn is construed as a theory of communication , it has the interesting consequence that it gives an account of how communication might be achieved in the absence of any conventional means for expressing the intended message . |
| 18 | In theory , he commands a formidable array of armed forces and in his hands lie the means for destroying the human race . |
| 19 | The authors concluded , ‘ APT provides effective means for managing the different types of risk to which investors are exposed . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , within the framework of NEP , Bukharin was seeking the means for establishing the necessary equilibrium of social and political , as well as the economic , factors . |
| 21 | Design becomes the means for ordering the socio-technical world in a manner compatible with both socio-cultural and technical-economic ends ; the means for forming , literally , future society in a manner at once desired and yet internally dialectically related to actuality requirements . |
| 22 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 23 | For I believe educational evaluation , in its broad interpretation , is the sole means for ensuring the progressive and enlightened development of the people the educational system serves . |
| 24 | Within Thailand , the mothers of sought-after baby primates , such as gibbons , are shot out of trees as a means of capturing the young . |
| 25 | Most instrumentalists agree with Marx that parliamentary processes are meaningless charades , significant only as a means of maintaining the key ideological illusion that there is effective popular control of state policy-making . |
| 26 | Neglectful silence is , of course , the most perfect means of maintaining the powerful integrity of the institutional boundaries against any criticisms . |
| 27 | The honours system developed in medieval Britain as a means of maintaining the strict hierarchy necessary for monarchical rule : a place for everyone and everyone in their place . |
| 28 | Although I do not have a magic wand , I hope to be able to establish some means of providing the physical back-up that you would like to receive from the Society and to start the ball rolling I am compiling a list of all the ways in which you have been supported or would like to have been supported , in the past plus suggestions for the future . |
| 29 | In the wider context , the new Quality Framework signals our commitment to supporting the success of education and training providers as a means of developing the highly-skilled workforce on which Scotland 's future economic health depends . |
| 30 | The trickier the situation the more your behaviour matters as a means of influencing the other person or people . |