Example sentences of "[prep] data [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical use for DATA and REAd is a name and address list . |
| 2 | Surely we can not ; we must accept what we have as data and work to make the best of what we have , our environment and our circumstances . |
| 3 | It may also include instructions to observe particularly unusual sources ; to repeat collection of data that have been lost or spoilt in some way ; or to take corrective actions based on data already received . |
| 4 | This facility can be used to indicate individual items in a set of data that have to be treated in a special way , different from the majority of items in the set ; a special case is " undefined " items , which have not as yet been assigned a value . |
| 5 | Whenever you want to show a trend , analyse large amounts of data or highlight statistical information in a report , then graphs and charts are the ideal means of presentation . |
| 6 | They divide viruses into the ‘ mostly harmless ’ which display messages , ‘ fatal distraction ’ which mean to display messages but accidentally cause loss of data or crash the computer , and ‘ information terrorist ’ which are designed to do harm . |
| 7 | In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data . |
| 8 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 9 | Aldershot-based Magstore Ltd is badging Philips Electronics NV 's CDD521 write-once compact disk drives in the UK so that software vendors and others can do short-run production of disks : the drives are aimed for both audio and data applications — the 63 minute disks can store 680Mb of data and cost £22 while the 72 minute equivalent holds 750Mb and costs £24 — bit high if you simply want copies of your latest songs to sell as compact disks around the folk clubs ; the drives themselves are priced at £4,450 and the necessary software for MS-DOS , Windows or Macintosh costing around £1,500 . |
| 10 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 11 | Indeed , it may be that the best approach to the design of guidelines for empirical evaluation is to begin with familiar and well-tried procedures for the elicitation and observation of data and see how far they can be adapted to serve a pedagogic purpose . |
| 12 | We could take a piece of data and quantify the hesitations , false starts , repetitions , pauses and so on . |
| 13 | This ‘ growth industry ’ feeds on accelerating social change and the increase of centralized planning and control and is aided by the computer 's ability to store vast amounts of data and produce extensive tabular summaries . |