Example sentences of "[n mass] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This impressive aircraft is but a ‘ try out ’ for their current project . |
| 2 | That 's down in erm er I do n't it 's where the gasworks is and that 's on erm I do n't remember the road , the other end of the town . |
| 3 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 4 | Smith says the message from Soviet data is that one year is the most people can take . |
| 5 | What is also of interest in the Birch data is that the rate of job destruction and creation is higher in those industrial sectors and geographical areas ( again the data relates to the USA ) where the rate of economic growth is higher . |
| 6 | A further point to remember in the presentation of data is that most people can not ‘ take in ’ lists of figures , so ensure that they are always presented in a diagrammatic form to show clearly proportions , relationships and trends . |
| 7 | His interpretation of his data is that the deaf child is linguistically deprived from the very beginning and it is this early lack of language stimulation which creates the problem . |
| 8 | By three to five years after surgery the actuarial survival rate exceeded that of a control population.This enhanced survival may reflect the fact that patients referred for surgery were highly selected , and an important limitation of these data is that the selection criteria were not explicit . |
| 9 | One outcome of this narrow view of data is that there is a concentration on ‘ artificially contrived sentences isolated from their communicative context ’ ( see Preface to Givón ( ed. ) , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | The implication of these data is that resources should be invested by purchasers in treatments which produce QALYs at low cost . |
| 11 | The observers ' interpretation of these data is that staff had understood the principle of normalization ( Wolfensberger , 1980 ) as meaning primarily that the people served must be offered choices to do valued activities . |
| 12 | A minor criticism of the use made of the data is that , of the 21 couples participating , the same handful are quoted over and over . |
| 13 | With the Omni SQL Gateway that er you 'll be be able to access D B two data is that still going through the Open SQL Server or is that actually going D R D A or are there plans to go D R D A compliant ? |
| 14 | The problem with using incomplete data is that should a transition occur that was absent from the training corpus then the model would assert that such a transition was impossible , assign zero probability and produce errors . |
| 15 | MAS policy on the presentation of financial data which differs from audited data is that : |
| 16 | Having had the opportunity to discuss the international trade market , my understanding of requirements for market data is as follows : |
| 17 | His relational model is a theory of what data is and how it can be stored and retrieved . |
| 18 | other news on norw.players is that Roger Nilsen of Viking , Stavanger who earlier this week look set to go to Sheff Utd is also really wanted at Aberdeen — he was in fact discussing terms with Bassett&co last night when suddenly Aberdeen called … |
| 19 | A criticism levelled at these fish is that they are not too attractive — but I feel an active male and female pair in the well-planted tank under optimum light have their own beauty . |
| 20 | Pressing her finger against a four foot display tank , she said , ‘ What type of fish is that please ? ’ |
| 21 | He also explains that the reason he is happy to accept minimum portfolios of £25,000 is because ‘ time and time again , small investors who come to us are pleased with the service and come back five or ten years later ’ , having inherited substantial sums . |
| 22 | But what really distorts the official statistics is that they are based almost entirely on the state economy . |
| 23 | The fourth element in the pattern of criminal statistics is that recorded crime is largely a working-class phenomenon . |
| 24 | On this point , a central problem with criminal statistics is that they only cover what is officially defined as crime at any one time . |
| 25 | The thing that disturbs me about statistics is that they can be interpreted to mean anything . |
| 26 | A further quirk in the Notts approach to gathering statistics is that until 1982 they counted as TIC those offences offered to the court but denied by the offenders ! |
| 27 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 28 | Liverpool Trading Standards chief Peter Mawdsley says the massive gulf between injury statistics is because the DTI estimates findings from certain hospital casualty units . |
| 29 | The problem for the media is that they find it very difficult to secure agreement across the political spectrum as to what would be accepted as impartially presented news . |
| 30 | In reality , the only difference between the two media is that the public knows how newspapers get their stories — though they do n't know that it 's exactly the same way as people in television get them . |