Example sentences of "of [n mass] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 2 | He comes across a flock of sheep belonging to the priest , one of which he takes ; he then returns to the priest , pretending not to be the traveller already refused entry , and this time is accepted in as he offers the sheep in payment . |
| 3 | The smell of sheep hung in the atmosphere soaking into sawdust and Harris Tweed alike . |
| 4 | He was bound in the sum of £40 to appear at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions in Kendal , the banker Christopher Wilson standing surety for him , for £30 . |
| 5 | The next morning Vauban and his horde of cavalry trotted into the castle grounds as if they were a welcoming relief . |
| 6 | The auditors point out that ‘ the consolidated financial statements include £8.883m of net liabilities and a loss before taxation for the year of £13.069m relating to the subsidiaries subject to these proceedings . |
| 7 | On the black walls of the tomb chamber were scraps of graffiti written in the eighteenth dynasty , a thousand years after the pyramid was built . |
| 8 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 9 | The scheme was not greatly used and was complemented by a Voluntary Advice Scheme under which solicitors would give up to half-hour 's advice for a fiat fee of £1 paid by the client irrespective of means . |
| 10 | Currently dedicated to microgravity flight experiments , but also used for atmospheric studies and pressure standards calibrations , the CT-133 is one of a small fleet of aircraft based at the NRC Headquarters at Ottawa International Airport . |
| 11 | Having designed a modern airframe , airfoil section and chosen the best of modern and traditional materials , they now produce a range of aircraft based on the basic airframe . |
| 12 | Propellers over Warwick by M J Evans is a small , but nevertheless interesting , booklet on the four generations of aircraft seen in the skies over Warwickshire . |
| 13 | The ash-fall from a typical Vesuvian eruption rarely causes casualties , but it did cause problems during the most recent eruption in 1944 , when Allied airfields in the Naples area were carpeted with ash , making the runways temporarily unusable , and gritty particles found their way into the air intakes of aircraft flying in the area . |
| 14 | Table 3.2 Relative proportions of postcranial elements : summary of data given in the Appendix |
| 15 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 16 | This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ . |
| 17 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 18 | An analysis of data collected over the past 50 years by national forestry ministries shows , however , that there has been a sharp decline in the volume of boreal wood " and hence the capacity to absorb carbon dioxide " since the 1960s , as a result of more intensive logging and increased dieback because of the effects of acid rain , pests and fires . |
| 19 | In general , the success pupils had with tables of data depended on the complexity and clutter in the table . |
| 20 | The chapters which follow will deal in more detail with the various theories of data involved in the use of social research methods : there are a variety of these , often connected to the same method , just as there are a variety of perspectives in sociology . |
| 21 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 22 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 23 | Synthesis of data arising from the recent discoveries of gold in south Devon suggests the presence of two phases of gold mineralisation . |
| 24 | Keynes himself had argued for ‘ the collection and dissemination on a great scale of data relating to the business situation including full publicity , by law if necessary , of all business facts which it is useful to know . |
| 25 | Automatic prescan of data follows for the summary screen , and calculations can be made on a range . |
| 26 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |
| 27 | Five of the nine practices had been collecting the types of data required by the regional health authority for several years , and all of the practices had computer systems in operation before the preparation period . |
| 28 | The second kind of data consists of the attributes or properties of the spatial entities shown on the maps . |
| 29 | Indexing may be conducted manually or may rely to varying extents upon the facilities for the manipulation and ordering of data offered by the computer . |
| 30 | Reanalysis of data published in the childhood supplement of the registrar general 's decennial supplement on occupational mortality in England and Wales , which compares numerator data for registrations of deaths in children over the age of 1 but below their 16th birthday in 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , and 1983 with data about children aged 1–15 who were enumerated at the 1981 census . |