Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the occasions when there was an epidemic of sheep scab we all went to the sheep dipping tub kept by the Fawcetts , and later the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt , to double dip them in a special drench . |
| 2 | The findings are the result of an eight-year , £550 million survey conducted by the nuclear waste consortium , UK Nirex . |
| 3 | 35mm compact camera found below the summit of Stac Pollaidh on Sunday , August 4 . |
| 4 | The chair of the Russian Central Bank , Georgy Matiukhin , announced on Jan. 10 that Russia wanted a deferral of interest payments on the $84,000 million debt owed by the former Soviet Union to commercial banks and western governments , in addition to the deferral of principal repayments agreed on Dec. 17 [ see p. 38656 ] . |
| 5 | Following its announcement earlier this year of a version of its FM-Towns multimedia personal computer aimed at the fireside market for connection to the family television , Fujitsu Ltd has established an in-house Multimedia Project Promotion division , drawing in researchers from its Research Laboratory as well as staff from its systems and sales divisions : Fujitsu cites figures from Dataquest forecasting growth in the world 's multimedia market at an average of 31.6% annually over the next four years and says it is ready to exploit its strengths in multimedia base technologies such as its Subaru computer graphics system and signal processing chips for high definition television , as well as user interfaces based on virtual reality , in the development of multimedia point-of-sale systems , software and automatic teller machines . |
| 6 | JOSE CANSECO 'S 484ft third-inning home run in the fourth game of the American League Championship play-off series helped Oakland Athletics to a 6-5 victory against Toronto Blue Jays . |
| 7 | Water Guardian ( pictured above ) is a 16.5m floating laboratory built for the National Rivers Authority to monitor water samples from Berwick to Flamborough Head . |
| 8 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has followed IBM Corp in introducing five new DPX/20 servers and an entry-level two-dimensional colour graphics diskless workstation based on the Power RISC architecture and a RAID technology disk array subsystem — presumably the CLARiiON one it its buying OEM from Data General Corp ( CI No 2,110 ) . |
| 9 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has followed IBM Corp in introducing five new DPX/20 servers and an entry-level two-dimensional colour graphics diskless workstation based on the Power RISC architecture and a RAID technology disk array subsystem — the CLARiiON is being bought from Data General Corp . |
| 10 | The lower half of the figure is a schematic view of the 5.6 kb EcoRI fragment derived from the genomic DNA clone GE5.1 . |
| 11 | The linewidths of the components of 1,290 , 1,322 , and 1,435kms -1 remained nearly constant for half a year , indicating saturated maser emission , but the line-width of the 1,385kms -1 component varied with the flux density , S , roughly as S — 0.5 , suggesting an unsaturated maser . |
| 12 | Put simply , £100 received today could be invested at 10% per annum and so be worth £110 next year compared with the £100 received then . |
| 13 | The potential £40 million value put on the treasure was not an aphrodisiac for a country that did not , and still does not , have an art market . |
| 14 | In this illustration the personal sector channelled its surplus of £500 million to the financial sector ( banks , insurance companies , building societies , etc. ) and the remaining funds originated from the foreign sector which lent its £1,000 million surplus derived from the excess of its exports over imports . |
| 15 | Although the 80ft British sloop charged through the fleet yesterday morning , it is still 68 miles behind the leader , Fisher & Paykel . |
| 16 | He believed that she pressed a clenched fist against the 2in deep knife wound during the three-mile journey in her killer 's car from the telephone to the embankment at Twyning , Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | The NAO report concentrates on the £18 billion bill faced by the industry in closing down and dismantling stations ( of which the government has agreed to cover a third ) . |
| 18 | The protest follows the row about the Chancellor 's £4,700 legal bill paid by the taxpayer , and overspending on his credit card . |
| 19 | The company has won a £24 million contract awarded by the United Overseas Bank for an extension and extensive alterations to its 38-storey Plaza 2 offices in Singapore . |