Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The final straw which induced almost total panic in control was the large proportion of late entries ; about 10% were received before the official closing date , a further 30% before the weekend and nearly 60% on the day . |
2 | The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) . |
3 | Fifty four per cent of patients were referred by general practitioners , 43% were tertiary referrals from other consultant surgeons and physicians in England , Wales , and the Channel Islands , and 3% were admitted through the Accident and Emergency Department . |
4 | One computer printout format included incidences of errors and diagnostic information as well as right or wrong codings , but it proved time-consuming for teachers to use and expensive to produce and post , so generally only the simpler right or wrong data were sent to the schools . |
5 | Data were analysed for the significance of differences by analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) . |
6 | Data were analysed with the statistical program SPSS , version 4.0 ( SPSS , Chicago , Illinois , United States ) . |
7 | Data were analysed with the Epi-Info and BMJ Confidence Intervals Analysis statistical packages . |
8 | The differences in transport data were analysed with the Wilcoxon rank test . |
9 | Non-homogenously distributed data were analysed by the Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests . |
10 | Data were analysed by the χ 2 test . |
11 | Categorical data were analysed by the χ 2 test , and non-parametric continuous data by the Kruskall-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U ( two tailed ) tests . |
12 | The in vivo data were analysed by the Mann-Whitney U Wilcoxon analysis of variance and multiple analysed variance ( MANOVA ) tests by use of the SPSS/PC+ and the mini-tab statistical packages for the IBM PC . |
13 | These data were compared in the hypertensive and normotensive groups , as nearly as possible to the same ages at which these data had been recorded for hypertensive cases . |
14 | The data were fitted to the equation , in which c.p.m . |
15 | Beginning in early 1988 a second phase was begun , and remotely-sensed data were selected as the source for databases on global forest resources and land degradation ( Aronoff , 1989 ; Mooneyhan , 1987 ) . |
16 | This time , the data were obtained in the following way : |
17 | For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group . |
18 | The data were obtained from the Canadian Hemophilia Registry . |
19 | Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health , the causes of deaths from the Finnish State Statistics , and annual alcohol consumption from the Finnish State Alcohol Company . |
20 | Significance levels for comparative data were determined by the Wilcoxon signed rank test . |
21 | These data were stored on the large IBM installation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in London , and an " in house " written data base handling language , INFSYS , was used to marshall the data . |
22 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
23 | For each compound , data were collected on the type of house , possessions , animals , and access to vitamin-A-rich foods . |
24 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
25 | Data were collected from the relevant site departments , transcribed onto coding forms and sent to Dartford for punching onto paper tape . |
26 | The absorbance versus temperature data were converted to the first derivative and the melting temperature was defined as the temperature at which the derivative curve attained its maximum value . |
27 | Figure 11.13 compares A level results in 1979 ( when data were gathered for the Rampton Report ) with those in 1982 ( when comparable data were collected for the Swann Report ) . |
28 | It continues the work of the Bristol Language project , supervised by Dr Gordon Wells , and follows up the foreign language school-based progress of the children whose first language developmental data were gathered by the Bristol team in the early 1970s . |
29 | Anomalous scattering data were included in the phasing calculation and were also used to determine the correct enantiomorph . |
30 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |