Example sentences of "a [n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little logical difference , then between 16 workstations on a local network and a chassis with 16 processors . |
| 2 | Father , when he used to , I 'd seen him years ago when he was a young man , he 'd do a sheep in five minutes . |
| 3 | His nose moved continually and when a bumblebee flew humming to a thistle bloom behind him , he jumped and spun round with a start that sent two near-by rabbits scurrying for holes before the nearest , a buck with black-tipped ears , recognized him and returned to feeding . |
| 4 | From there we go to Corgarff Castle near Strathdon , a 16th-century tower house converted into a barracks for Hanoverian troops in 1748 . |
| 5 | Yet few people know about a period of even greater invasion panic which spread during the Napoleonic wars , when a militia of Cornish miners dug defensive trenches to keep the French out of Plymouth . |
| 6 | Ontological existents are a sub-species of possible topics of discourse , and any topic of discourse , qua topic of discourse , is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " ; with " A " being a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 7 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 8 | He created a chain of fortified villages and strongpoints and established a corps of mercenary troops to guard them . |
| 9 | A corps of Military Engineers , formed in 1717 , had by 1751 attracted only 61 officers , and the first school of military engineering , set up in 1741 , was very slow to rival the success of Woolwich . |
| 10 | The 1st Guards Brigade War Diary later summarised this episode in its entry for 12 May : " Oberst von SEELER , in command of a Corps of 10,000 Germans , 13,000 Slovenes , 4,000 Serbs and 4,000 White Russians , coming from JUGOSLAVIA by LOIBL PASS , surrenders to the Bde and is conc at vast camp at Viktring , under comd 3 Gren Gds . |
| 11 | A continuous flow of information about the effectiveness of schools is also needed , and it can come only from a corps of local inspectors , properly supervised by a national inspectorate . |
| 12 | The Austrians armed a corps of Serbian volunteers under an Austrian major of Serbian origin , Mihailo Mihaljević , to fight the Turks . |
| 13 | Will he redouble his efforts to establish a corps of special constables who would play the same part as the Territorial Army vis-a -vis the regular Army ? |
| 14 | There are over a 100km of marked walks throughout the area . |
| 15 | Our friend the kingfisher apparently possesses computational mechanisms which can discover the real position of a fish at varying depths in the water . |
| 16 | However , 14 spring fish were reported for the week with Paul McGivern of Belfast taking a fish of 10 lbs on a Gary Dog fly . |
| 17 | Billy Ray also had a fish of 8 lbs on shrimp . |
| 18 | This is a stout-bodied fish , something like a perch in general proportions , with long , low fins on upper and lower rear of the body ( fin rays finely divide near their ends ) . |
| 19 | So too wealth should be used as a means to good ends , but never be sought or enjoyed for its own sake . |
| 20 | So Moore 's method can hardly allow us to attach any intrinsic value to education at all ; its value must be that of a means to other things or perhaps as an element in some larger whole of value . |
| 21 | Others only backed the idea as a means to other ends . |
| 22 | It might also provide a means of distinguishing fragments of discourse which are felt to be good , coherent , examples of English from those that are , intuitively , incoherent concatenations of sentences . |
| 23 | Although they had no objection to the presence of professional artists in schools as a means of stimulating pupils and demonstrating the valuable work which artists offered the community through their own professional activities , they were concerned that the artists in schools programme appeared to be subverting the search for a coherent arts programme for all pupils . |
| 24 | This is a means of developing links with parents . |
| 25 | In the important case of Litster v Forth Dry Dock Engineering Co Ltd ( 1989 ) , the House of Lords rejected an argument which would have reduced the value of the Regulations as a means of preserving jobs . |
| 26 | Lévi-Strauss ' counter argument was that ‘ the universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs ’ ( Goody , 1977 , p. 5 ) . |
| 27 | Education meant infinitely more than good schools programmes ; a whole approach , rather , to broadcasting as a means of widening horizons , opening doors , increasing awareness — all the well meant speech — day cliches of the educationist , working with the privilege of experience and knowledge and with a sense of responsibility for the improvement of those they serve . |
| 28 | They hoped it would be a means of convincing voters — and their own restless supporters — that the party was still bursting with initiatives after 13 years in office . |
| 29 | Granting respite from debts was a means of encouraging men to serve in the army , and in Edward I 's and Edward II 's reigns each campaign was prefaced by a whole series of respites granted by the Exchequer . |
| 30 | When viewed from this vantage point , designing can be seen as more than just a means of creating and applying technologies : it is also revealed as a means of shaping relations between people . |