Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few sad , oily sheep pick their way through the debris of rusting pipework and discarded machinery , laced with a sulphurous stink . |
| 2 | According to 74% of men , their own and their partner 's sexual satisfaction are equally important ; 23% say their partner 's satisfaction is more important ; only 3% believe their own satisfaction is paramount ; and 1% do n't know . |
| 3 | In addition , personal tutors receive copies of their tutees ' records and timetables , and admissions tutors receive regular and on demand analyses of applications data to support their decision making and to assist the meeting of both individual field and overall Course intake targets . |
| 4 | The second aircraft made his attack over the breakwater , released his torpedo and saw a hit on destroyer . |
| 5 | Donna Frizzell , angular in dark brown , sat as secretary of the committee , with the president , chairman and treasurer , while the lesser fry made their reports . |
| 6 | Hairdresser Daniel Hersheson made an instant transformation , cutting Juliana 's hair into a shorter , face-framing bob to emphasise her heart-shaped face . |
| 7 | They would need , Maté said , to append electrodes to my cranium in order to obtain full sensory data matching my answers to his questions . |
| 8 | In appearance , the slab-sided yet undoubtedly highly effective new S-class disguises its massive bulk . |
| 9 | The company is splitting its 5p nominal shares into units of 2½p to increase their marketability . |
| 10 | The majority of aircraft in both Europe and the Pacific amphibious assaults were land-based , but carrier aircraft played their part . |
| 11 | One aircraft dropped its torpedo outside the Harbour and attempted to run it through the Harbour entrance , the fifth aircraft , unable to locate its target , returned to base with its torpedo , and the sixth aircraft , piloted by P/O Atherton , must also have turned away and retired seaward . |
| 12 | At the time of writing ( Oct 77 ) the Japanese MSDF are said to be interested in fifteen aircraft to replace its mixed fleet of thirty-four prop driven aircraft . |
| 13 | Laboratory constraints reach the field officer in the form of a curb against excessive or irregular sampling , suggesting the possibility that the agency 's capacity to process data limits its ability to discover and identify deviance . |
| 14 | Recent experimental data support our results suggesting that faecal pancreatic type isoamylase activity is lower in patients with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer who have moderate to severe exocrine pancreatic insufficiency when compared with normal subjects . |
| 15 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 16 | He borrowed £150m to buy his planes from McDonnell Douglas and Airbus Industrie , and each year he had to find the cash to repay the instalments as well as paying the interest . |
| 17 | Hong Kong casts a spell over the visitor almost as soon as your aircraft weaves its way between high-rise blocks to land at the chaotic airport . |
| 18 | Most parallel environments operate best when accessed data shows its local point of reference , the Forum says . |
| 19 | Most parallel environments operate best when accessed data shows its local point of reference , the Forum says . |
| 20 | Thomas and Znaniecki 's study was very carefully reviewed by Blumer in 1949 and he came out with a number of general criticisms of the research in which the authors used letters , a wide variety of documents and Wladek 's autobiography as data to illustrate their theoretical propositions . |
| 21 | On the other hand , some customers then ‘ were afraid to ask ’ , and are now armed with consumption data to press their case for preferential treatment on a more appropriate tariff . |
| 22 | As for S1593 , it was returned to the makers where three 720hp Junkers Jumo IVC diesel engines were fitted , these being built under licence as the Napier Culverin Series I. This aircraft finished its days as a test machine for anti-corrosive paints , but with its 37mm COW gun was considered the prototype for the Blackburn Perth which followed . |
| 23 | The little vole scratched his ear three times very quickly . |
| 24 | Indeed the Goldsmiths were so pleased that they granted the headmaster £20 to tidy his garden , and decided to extend the playground yet again . |
| 25 | Apply carb heat , then select the rpm to give your required rate of descent . |
| 26 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 27 | According to 74% of men , their own and their partner 's sexual satisfaction are equally important ; 23% say their partner 's satisfaction is more important ; only 3% believe their own satisfaction is paramount ; and 1% do n't know . |
| 28 | Peacock-Edwards ' V7472 was badly hit and he crash-landed at Hal Far ; the aircraft broke its back and was a write-off . |
| 29 | When institutions as diverse as hospitals , railways , schools , and refuse services are having to publish data demonstrating their performance , medical journals need to join in . |
| 30 | We could hear the engines revving up as one by one the aircraft started their nerve-wracking blind journey down the runway , and miraculously each managed a safe take-off without dislodging their bombs . |