Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Hawes there are shops , cafes , pubs , a rope works , the biggest sheep mart in the Dales and a cheese factory where the traditional Wensleydale cheeses with their distinctive mild flavour and crumbly flesh are made . |
| 2 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 3 | Seek for buried treasure — £1,000 hidden in Smugglers Country . |
| 4 | rooted as the sheep reared in reverse out , |
| 5 | Likewise Guinness has established a substantial operation in Edinburgh to manage its distilled products , even though its headquarters remain in London . |
| 6 | He says he has appreciated every word and gesture , from the plethora of ‘ well done banners ’ to the sheep painted in the team 's colours . |
| 7 | LAIRD Group , is making a £41.4m one-for-five rights issue at 220p to invest in acquisitions and the expansion of its motor components businesses . |
| 8 | Livestock stocking densities are substantially higher ( 40% in 1979/80 ) in Powys than in Cantal ( though sheep predominate in the former and cattle in the latter ) . |
| 9 | Archaeologists have discovered the Jewish headquarters located in a complex of hitherto unexplored caves in the Wadi Phara , six miles north-east of Jerusalem . |
| 10 | There was no one more adept at tracing and rescuing sheep trapped in snow drifts . |
| 11 | In the control group all occurred in hospital diabetic clinics whereas for the prompted group 67% occurred in general practice . |
| 12 | In her booth the cashier sat knitting behind a tank in which a solitary goldfish swam in desultory circles . |
| 13 | Even the youngster 's goldfish perished in the blaze at his home in Saltaire , near Bradford . |
| 14 | Zimbabwean conservationists have successfully completed a programme of rhino de-horning , a technique first developed in an effort to reduce rhino poaching in neighbouring Namibia . |
| 15 | Here , the potato cod congregate in one area , attracted by the possibility of food . |
| 16 | The fry hatch in 24–48 hours , depending on the temperature of the water and are free-swimming on the third or fourth day when their first food should be rotifers , liquid fry food or other small foods , followed by newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Table 3.2 Relative proportions of postcranial elements : summary of data given in the Appendix |
| 19 | ( The data given in this chapter was collected during the first six months of 1985 and employers should , therefore , bear this in mind when determining their relocation policies . ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 22 | The drafting of an internal report based on raw data given in the form of graphs , notes , press cuttings , charts , tables , etc . |
| 23 | This is particularly important given that the explanation of the data given in Chapter 4 in terms of attention focusing relied on assumptions about memory being enhanced for some aspects of the stimuli and impaired for other aspects . |
| 24 | Using the method of comparing population proportions given in Exercise 5 of Chapter 5 and the fact that about one in five twins are identical , check the assertion that the Danish Twin Registry data given in Section 16.1 show evidence of a genetic effect even for ‘ other acute infections ’ . |
| 25 | The fry remain in the streams for a few weeks , feeding on the flush of insects and crustaceans that appear in the warming waters . |
| 26 | Especially because of all the evidence that different species , and different processes within a single organism , use variants of similar molecular mechanisms to carry out specified tasks , those with the good fortune to have the time to think about the data accumulating in the literature would probably reap a rich harvest of understanding . |
| 27 | The data examined in this study give a consistent picture of behaviour changes among homosexual men which have led to a continuance of HIV transmission in this group in England and Wales . |
| 28 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 29 | LIKE DATA MISPLACED IN A FILE . |
| 30 | Without them some data gathered in orbit will have nowhere to go . |