Example sentences of "[n mass] [is] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The PSS 9.6V is therefore a compromise .
2 Unfortunately , systematic , industry-side data is now a thing of the past for the port industry following the demise of the National Dock Labour Board and the National Association of Port Employers , so it is impossible to determine whether this is a specific or general phenomenon .
3 ‘ A target of £10,000 is quite a challenge but we will all be going for it . ’
4 Multimedia is essentially a by-product of CD-ROM ( Compact Disk Read Only Memory ) , invented in 1985 by Philips and Sony .
5 It has been recorded at up to 50 cm in length , although 40cm is more the norm , and this should be anticipated by potential purchasers of 10–15 cm specimens .
6 Unfortunately gill damage to the fish is often the result , allowing secondary infection by all manner of parasites , bacteria and fungi .
7 In the application of its methods , statistics is both an art and a science .
8 The prime document for EC statistics is now the VAT return .
9 Inside IBM 's ‘ be kind to the user ’ testbed Putting in real time with real people is now the rage , says Paul Bray
10 I mean as , as a , the fact is that , like providing services for the young people is legally the responsibility for Es of Essex County Council .
11 RECRUITING IN A RECESSION Taking on new staff is rarely a company priority in a recession , but The Freshman Consultancy has established itself in the recruitment business in spite of the current climate
12 The magistrates investigating the corruption involving all the major parties and business must feel rather like the apprentice : the arrest of the president of a Milan old people 's home a year ago , charged with accepting bribes , opened the flood-gates and precipitated the most far-reaching corruption investigations leading to the highest levels of politics and business .
13 When an old person becomes so demented that she or he can not be contained in an old people 's home the choice is between a private nursing home costing about £400 a week or a free bed in the NHS .
14 The use of the spatial coordinates xj is therefore the Euler description .
15 International sales manager based in Houston , recognises that equipment sales is just the beginning when establishing a relationship with customers .
16 The problem of the origin of species is thus the problem of how such isolating mechanisms arose .
17 Precisely how the disease process works is still a mystery , and a great deal remains to be learnt about it .
18 The duck is precisely the sort of person who buys second-hand postcards and carries them round and sends them to people .
19 Given the chance , a flank attack with a massed force of cavalry is usually a sound plan .
20 Buckinghamshire County Council 's headquarters is now a smoke free zone .
21 To sum up , £50 is still a lot of money to pay for a mitre saw .
22 Jo must have at least four bankers ' cards to get £200 out of hole-in-the-wall bank machines , I figured , as £50 is usually the limit .
23 On my reading , the series is also a study of character , or characters .
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