Example sentences of "the [n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the palazzo , an enormous Neo-classical building , the work of Piermarini whose workers toiled from 1770 and 1778 to transform the existing building on the site , houses the headquarters of several institutes of history and art . |
| 2 | I drove past a housing development called Anzio Acres and the lumpy greens of a golf course and then past buildings reserved for Psy Ops , and the headquarters of Special Forces , with its monument to John F Kennedy and its statue of an old Green Beret . |
| 3 | as if they knew that the problem was not resolved a letter arrived yesterday from the headquarters of British Bakeries . |
| 4 | After further discussion it was agreed that , due to the complexities of the regulations surrounding financial transactions , and the obligation to make regular returns to the headquarters about financial matters , investigation of the FI category seemed to offer the most potential for improvement . |
| 5 | A cavalry trooper or harquebusier wearing a ‘ lobster pott ’ helmet , typical of the cavalry on both sides |
| 6 | Yesterday 's 9p drop to 370p took the shares to an 18-month low ahead of the promised interim announcement on the dispute between the tunnel developer and its contractors over the £800m of extra payments they are claiming . |
| 7 | But this goat , which is kept with the sheep for similar reasons , has to be separated . |
| 8 | But we do use the sheep in some ways do n't we ? |
| 9 | Training has been completed for the week , and the platoon which paraded for its Pass-Off today has now left the barracks for ten days ' leave prior to posting to various battalions in England , Ulster and around Europe . |
| 10 | For the fry of large cichlids the food need not be this fine and one method to produce a powder fine enough is described below . |
| 11 | The pilot maintained the aircraft in the clime attitude and the commander , who was checking the aircraft 's instruments , noticed the RPM on both engines running down very fast , he also observed the engined pressure ratio ( EPR ) , and exhaust gas temperature ( EGT ) instrument readings dropping . |
| 12 | The data for such studies come from censuses , vital registration , etc . |
| 13 | The data for non-right handers collected by Rasmussen and his colleagues show approximately two thirds of left handers to have left sided speech while the remaining third are divided between those with speech on the right side and those with speech represented bilaterally . |
| 14 | The data for developed countries are from official vital statistics and special surveys ( with the official data having greater credibility than similar registered data for less advanced nations ) , while the material for developing countries has been taken mainly from results of the World Fertility Survey and the WHO Collaborative Studies on Health and Family Formation . |
| 15 | In practice , most information was obtained from a single highly intelligent , articulate and linguistically aware speaker , on whom Dixon relied almost totally ; his procedure then was to check the data for idiolectal idiosyncrasies against the judgement of one other . |
| 16 | Since sociolinguistics is full of incomplete theories and unanswered questions , it is often more important to find ways of thoroughly searching the data for different types of pattern than to generate hypotheses which might well be premature . |
| 17 | They would be protected by a new right known as the Unfair Extraction Right , but it would only protect the data for ten years . |
| 18 | Several multivariate analysis techniques will be used to elaborate the data for these purposes . |
| 19 | Smooth the data on negative perceptions of household finances in the past ( column 3 of figure 9.5 ) . |
| 20 | The defeatists felt that the power of the torturers was too great to try to combat ; the purists were too busy discussing semantics to take up the real problems ; the perfectionists thought that the data on human rights was too imprecise to be used for high quality research ; the paradigm thinkers believed that massive political and social changes would be necessary before torture could be stopped ; many other concerned persons were involved in other cases , such as environment , ecology , animal rights , etc . |
| 21 | The chapter begins by exploring some of the limitations of the data on low-income households . |
| 22 | Furthermore , eye movements include vertical as well as lateral deviations of gaze and the general tendency to pay little or no attention to vertical eye movements may have important implications for interpretation of the data on horizontal movements . |
| 23 | This implies that unwanted variance may be introduced into the data of those experiments where subjects are free to spontaneously attach their own labels to non-verbal stimuli . |
| 24 | A second point is that any company that takes over the satellites would want to sell the data to private individuals and organisations around the world . |
| 25 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 26 | We structure the data into simplified snapshots , attributes , traits and types , and attempt to give ourselves the understanding we need and to predict the behaviour of others from this process . |
| 27 | Means from the current study are calculated from the data from 18 subjects for each point . |
| 28 | Following McNicol ( 1972 ) a nonparametric overall measure of recognition sensitivity for individual films was calculated from the collapsed data , this measure , P(A) , corresponds to the area beneath the ROC curve plotted for a film , aggregating the data from all subjects . |
| 29 | Despite the rapid increase in the number of large-scale excavations of settlements , only three have been published ( Bell 1977 ; Millett 1983 ; West 1985 ) ; a similar problem pertains with the number of cemeteries examined since the Second World War and which remain unpublished , denying a generation of researchers the data from modern excavations . |
| 30 | The data from 256 children were evaluated ; 209 were admitted to the hospital . |