Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Declaration undoubtedly broke new constitutional ground when it stated that " the raising or keeping of a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace unless it be with the consent of Parliament is against the law " ; the Militia Acts of 1661 and 1662 had invested control of the armed forces in the hands of the monarch alone with no suggestion that Parliamentary consent was needed to maintain an army in peace time . |
| 2 | The non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is also strongly conserved between the five CsA molecules with average r.m.s.d. values of 0.27Å for all atoms and 0.15Å for the eleven C α atoms . |
| 3 | By the third quarter of the fourth century the cavalry commanders of the ‘ solo horsemen ’ and ‘ four horsemen ’ form an officer class with political privileges ( SEG ix.1 ) . |
| 4 | Both Rennenkampf and Samsonov had distinguished military records as cavalry commanders in Manchuria , but they had quarrelled and become bitter enemies . |
| 5 | Imagine , in some generation in the past , that a species contains N individuals , and hence 2 N copies of some particular gene , say the gene for cytochrome C. Let the total mutation rate per gene be m ( that is , the chance of a mutation of some kind occurring somewhere in the gene in a given sperm or egg ) . |
| 6 | The Thurlstone militia returns of 1806 name 129 men , of whom forty-one were weavers and twenty-one were clothiers , each of them humble men who worked at a loom in their own home . |
| 7 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 8 | It would be beneficial to warn people to change their ‘ alien ’ notes to familiar currency during the Christmas period so they know where they are and do not give the opportunity to the fast buck merchants of lining their nests . |
| 9 | The movie is released next week by Warner and we have six £60 copies of it to give away . |
| 10 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 11 | After all , New York State has attracted more foreign companies than any other state , from headquarters operations to manufacturing operations . |
| 12 | Other detachments headed south from northern , rebel-held cities in an advance on Madrid , only to find themselves humiliatingly held by urban militia groups in the Guadarrama mountains north of the city . |
| 13 | National Grid plans to put up 400kv lines on 150ft pylons across Cleveland and North Yorkshire from Lackenby on Teesside , to Shipton , near York to take electricity from a new power station on Teesside to the south of England . |
| 14 | The Borrowby Pylon Action Group hopes the figure will draw attention to the National Grid Company 's plans for 400kv lines on 150ft pylons across Cleveland and North Yorkshire . |
| 15 | Eugenics , Human Genetics and Human Failings : The Eugenic Society , its Sources and Critics in Britain by Pauline M. H. Mazumdar Routledge , £40 THANKS to Hitler , schemes for purifying the race by selective breeding are now associated with ‘ ultra-right ’ politics . |
| 16 | For an N-phase motor excitation of each phase in sequence produces N steps of rotor motion and at the end of these N steps excitation returns to the original set of stator teeth . |
| 17 | Grants are available for a wide range of capital investments and the rates do not appear to vary with the type of investment but with the nature of the production system ( average rates of 22.4% for milk cows , 28.3% for beef cows and 31.2% for sheep units in the Auvergne ) and the LFA zone ( 34.0% in the ‘ montagne ’ and ‘ piedmont ’ ; 28.5% in the ‘ hors montagne ’ and 21. 1 % outside the LFA ) . |
| 18 | In the cavalry skirmishes against Kalmyk , Kirgiz or Mongol horsemen , who almost lived in the saddle and were ‘ a numerous , highly manoeuvrable and well armed foe , a serious and dangerous enemy ’ , Russian firepower proved of very little advantage . |
| 19 | An alternative explanation might see these fortified sites being used as bases for the storage of spare equipment and horses plus food and fodder for mobile cavalry units of the late Roman field army in Britain . |
| 20 | It 's usually worth protecting those high-cost cavalry units with a banner of Arcane Warding or Protection . |
| 21 | Autotrol Corp has reported fourth quarter net losses of $4.6m up from losses of $1.3m last time , after $3.2m losses from discontinued operations , including $2.6m from their disposal this time and $1.9m losses from discontinued operations last time , including $2m from their disposal , on turnover up 8.2% at $7.8m ; net loss for the year to December 31 was $3.9m , up from $448,273 last time , after $3.4m losses from discontinued operations this time and $2.5m losses last time , including $2.2m from their disposal , on turnover up 9.7% to $33.5m . |
| 22 | They are all criminals , those who live in the barracks huts of the camps , and those who will join them when the train reaches the platforms of Barashevo . |
| 23 | , ( Mackay Hugh ) Baillie ( 1865–1945 ) , architect , was born at Beard 's Hill , St Peter 's , near Ramsgate , Kent , 23 October 1865 , the oldest of the fourteen children of Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott , a Scottish baron who owned sheep ranches in Australia , and his wife Martha Waters . |
| 24 | It was intended that he should manage his father 's sheep ranches in Australia , but in 1886 he was articled to Charles E. Davis [ q.v. ] , city architect of Bath , where he remained until 1889 . |
| 25 | The infant was heir to a rapidly diminishing but still substantial fortune accumulated in the fifteenth century when the Spencers were among the wealthiest sheep traders in Europe . |
| 26 | Thorn EMI was the star performer , surging 13p to 872p thanks to booming U.S. music sales and favourable comments from brokers . |
| 27 | Cognitronics Corp has reported first quarter net losses of $379,000 against profits of $602,000 last time , after $471,000 charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change and $283,000 losses from discontinued operations this time and $45,000 losses from discontinued operations last time , on turnover up 19.8% to $5.1m . |
| 28 | The £44,000 Arts in Healthcare initiative is designed to aid workshops where artists work with staff and patients , and the commissioning of works of art . |
| 29 | Burton 's History of Leicestershire ( 1622 ) noted that Foston had some of the finest sheep pastures in the county and that the village community consisted only of the squire , the parson and three or four labouring families . |
| 30 | He began feeding 9mm shells into the magazine . |