Example sentences of "[n mass] and [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 2 | First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users . |
| 3 | As work on the time series package is completed it will be possible to start work on programs for use with cross-sectional data where a vital requirement is for flexible facilities for managing data and preparing it for analysis . |
| 4 | The information comes from selecting data and presenting it in such a way that it is meaningful and useful to the user . |
| 5 | To determine how to improve drill bit efficiency for the 12 ¼″ well section , Fear recently spent two months gathering data and processing it at BPXC . |
| 6 | ‘ Your daughter 's a cheat and a liar , ’ the father said , taking his plate of fish and placing it on his knees . |
| 7 | ANEW study of the poet of Xanadu and The Ancient Mariner has won the Whitbread Biography of the Year prize , earning its author £1,750 and leaving him in the field for the Book of the Year £20,250 prize , to be announced on January 24 . |
| 8 | Social groups create deviance by making rules whose infraction constitutes deviance and by applying those rules to particular people and labelling them as outsiders . |
| 9 | Fifthly , rebellion , giving up the conventional goals and means and replacing them with new ones . |
| 10 | Such a response involves sharing information with staff and involving them in decisions , some of which have budgetary implications . |
| 11 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 12 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |
| 13 | Cos what I 'm doing , I put them on a series and keeping them for revision . |