Example sentences of "of [n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , the South Western Board was clearly in financial difficulties , and in 1954 the Central Authority did make a subvention of £250000 from central reserves , with the possibility of further help five years later , hoping that the Board would now make reasonable charges to its consumers to cover expenditure . |
| 2 | Because larval development of H. contortus occurs optimally at relatively high temperatures , haemonchosis is primarily a disease of sheep in warm climates . |
| 3 | It would be more profitable to relate the temporary decline in the use of cavalry to other factors . |
| 4 | The curve for abnormal subareas has a limited sensitivity , but the specificity is high at 1 , for a scoring of 3% of abnormal subareas , which is the demarcation set by Ryder as a departure from normality . |
| 5 | In order to attract foreign investment , the Malaysian government introduced legislation in 1990 , abolishing withholding tax and providing for a basic tax rate of 3% on net profits for certain activities undertaken in Labuan . |
| 6 | Predation experiments showed that when presented with a school of fry of mixed sizes , predators ate smaller fry more often than larger fry . |
| 7 | Although the recently announced European Air Traffic Control information system may facilitate the movement of aircraft across national boundaries , it can not create more airspace in the already crowded skies over southern England . |
| 8 | At length , Boeing conceded the point , leaving Bob Wilson to lament that ‘ it was easier to sell a fleet of aircraft to United Airlines , than to sell one to Virgin . ’ |
| 9 | For instance , a particular type of aircraft with specified engines in established weather conditions will , at a known weight , accelerate to the appropriate speed for take-off in a predetermined distance along the runway , following which it will be accelerated to a specified speed and achieve a pre-established rate of climb during which the landing gear will be retracted , taking a known period of time . |
| 10 | There are also a few experiments in Earth geometry that gain from the rapid transfer of data between distant schools . |
| 11 | If you wish to pass large amounts of data between CHAINed programs , you should use a data file . |
| 12 | For its missiles to be effective , China would require a source of data about possible targets . |
| 13 | By this process we reduce an indigestible amount of data into meaningful lumps . |
| 14 | Inclusion of data on casual workers might have altered the picture , at least for the service sector . |
| 15 | Prospective collection of data on general practitioners ' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics between June 1990 and March 1992 and detailed comparison of two time periods : October 1990 to March 1991 ( phase 1 ) and October 1991 to March 1992 ( phase 2 ) . |
| 16 | The construction of an ephemeris involved processing and evaluating the wide variety of data on planetary positions , choosing a dynamical model for the Solar System , and varying the adjustable parameters to give computed orbits that best fit the observations . |
| 17 | There is already a large amount of data on normal women , which shows that HRT prevents bone loss after the menopause . |
| 18 | The Commission published on June 21 , 1989 , its plans for a new European Environment Agency whose main task would be the accumulation and processing of data on environmental issues . |
| 19 | The two primary sources of data on smoking habits are the General Household Survey and surveys conducted by the tobacco industry . |
| 20 | Compared with the exchange of data on magnetic tapes , EDI speeds up the process dramatically . |
| 21 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 22 | In the event of our asking you to input other sets of data for subsequent disks we will pay you £250 per disk on delivery . |
| 23 | Taking into account the influence of a number of factors that affect levels of child mortality , including maternal age , one study demonstrated with results of data from developing countries that participated in the WFS , that elimination of fourth and higher order births ( i.e. , termination of childbearing at third parity ) would reduce infant and early childhood mortality by approximately eight per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.29 ) . |
| 24 | Marine geophysics The final phase of the continental shelf programme funded by the Department of Energy included the integration of data from other organisations ' marine gravity surveys with the BGS dataset . |
| 25 | The functions they provide may include a selection of the following : electronic mail , fax , telex , word processing , records storage and retrieval ( both individual and shared ) , diary scheduling ( people and facilities ) , internal reference information , spreadsheets , access to other applications , and the importing and repackaging of data from other applications . |
| 26 | The relative risks estimated on the basis of data collected at interview and on the basis of data from obstetric notes are generally similar . |
| 27 | There is increasing interest among social scientists in the linking of data from different sources , including the national census of population based on a system of enumeration districts ( EDs ) . |
| 28 | Exploration and production companies have to manage huge amounts of data from diverse databases and business disciplines . |
| 29 | Quality of data in developing countries also presents special difficulties . |
| 30 | The opening session of this workshop demonstrated very clearly that these changes affect the creators , the storers and the pursuers of data in similar ways . |