Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To coin an American phrase : ‘ The buck must stop with the manager ’ |
| 2 | Worse still , if the stick is being held back the aircraft may bounce off the ground into an even more nose-high attitude and at an even lower speed . |
| 3 | The characteristics which are common within a specialist collection of data may relate to the subject matter ( e.g. political opinion polls ) , to the time period ( e.g. historical social and demographic records ) , to the geographical coverage ( e.g. Northern Irish data ) , to the administrative units to which they relate ( e.g. New Town 's studies ) or even to the type ( e.g. spatially referenced data ) . |
| 4 | Second , the information requirements are considerable and the time taken assembling data may work against the efficiency that the organisation is trying to achieve . |
| 5 | Holders of such data must adhere to the very reasonable legal , moral and ethical principles laid down by the Act and the data must be held securely and confidentially . |
| 6 | The Census Offices require that anyone who is using the data should assent to the Conditions of Use , and to cut down on paperwork , there is a class registration form , to be used when a class is accessing the data . |
| 7 | Attention to the instrumental theories underpinning data should point toward the fact that materials are often open to varying interpretations ; another way of expressing the idea that theories are under-determined by data . |
| 8 | If this running light is to emulate the movement of a ball along a pitch , from the bowler 's end represented by D1 to the wicket represented by D10 , the l.e.d.s must light in the correct order and necessarily stop on reaching D10 , in spite of the fact that the clock pulses are continually applied . |
| 9 | In sum , therefore , an attendance rate of 90% does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent ; the missing 10% could come from a small number of pupils with lengthy absences or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences . |
| 10 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 11 | In strictly layman 's terms , the amount of additional engine-weight and fuel that any supersonic aircraft could get off the ground would give a few minutes of sub-orbital time , if that . |
| 12 | These data would argue against a pathogenic role for E coli in ulcerative colitis . |
| 13 | All the data will live in a nice tidy fashion in a single relational database but what happens . |
| 14 | For instance , flying visually at the normal cruite ; you set cruise power , hold your attitude for level flight and the aircraft will fly at the normal cruise . |
| 15 | The time necessary to climb to cruising altitude will be known for the particular weight of the aircraft , and in all probability the aircraft will fly along the airways or upper airways , i.e. particular routes under positive air traffic control and substantial radar cover with radio navigation aids deployed along the airways at intervals . |
| 16 | An excellent method is to use one of the sponge filters which are operated by an air pump and can easily be regulated — plus the fry can graze upon the minute particles of food and organisms which colonise the sponge . |
| 17 | No aircraft can fly from the base until the wreckage is cleared . |
| 18 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 19 | Establish as heavy a bombardment as the cannon will stand against the walls and the guns by the walls . |
| 20 | With Christmas just over two weeks away , a fitness video at between £11 and £12 may seem like the ideal stocking filler . |
| 21 | In an emergency the new European corps would come under the operational command of NATO 's Supreme Allied Command Europe ( SACEUR ) . |
| 22 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 23 | The fish would swim to the surface of the pond as the water in this area has more dissolved oxygen content — below this layer , the water has become devoid of oxygen . |
| 24 | The French want to stop British imports and argue that subjecting Russian catches to a minimum import price would cut the cross-Channel trade as more British fish would sell in the UK . |
| 25 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 26 | But Oxford match secretary Steve Pipkin , who is pegging the length , reckons the team who can best sort out a method for the small fish will win on the day . |
| 27 | The fish will spawn among the fine-leaved plants . |
| 28 | See how , sometimes , the largest fish will hover at the tail-end of the shoal , while his tasters — or so it seems — accept almost every likely-looking morsel , only to leave some morsels alone as though there was something special about them , and fit only for the King . |
| 29 | Under the right conditions these fish will live for a number of years . |
| 30 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |