Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] be [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the years immediately preceding this meeting AIB had been involved in a number of foreign investigations conducted abroad concerning foreign registered aircraft that were not manufactured in the UK . |
| 2 | Such sources are valuable for the wide-ranging data they provide and , particularly , for the historical dimension they add to primary data that is necessarily bound to the present day . |
| 3 | In principle these recorders are not so very different from a normal domestic tape recorder , but they too are installed in the tail end of the aircraft and are heavily protected from crash damage . |
| 4 | The fire spread to the rest of the aircraft and was only extinguished by the aircraft sinking . ’ |
| 5 | The percentage of positive staining cells was about 10% and was not changed by IL-6 treatment . |
| 6 | Bile acids were hydrolysed under alkaline conditions at 220°C and were subsequently neutralised with hydrochloric acid and extracted with diethylether . |
| 7 | Skirlaugh church school was built in 1861 at a cost of £1,000 and was originally supported by the Langdale Charity . |
| 8 | Ornamental pool fish that are commonly sold to the pond owners usually live amicably together , irrespective of size or species . |
| 9 | The Victoria Dock was completed at a cost of £200,000 and was officially opened in July . |
| 10 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 11 | The Pittsburgh group incorporated a radioactive ‘ label ’ into the coat proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus ( a virus that causes a mild disease in livestock and is much used in interferon research ) . |
| 12 | As a medium , therefore , TV is subject to a variety of pressures — commercial , political and technological — that have the potential to generate considerable changes ; and because TV is such a powerful medium , these pressures ensure that it changes almost as much as other media that are less constrained by technological straitjackets . |
| 13 | But as such just because you 're hiring people that 's still going to be , in Marxist terms , seen as exploitation . |
| 14 | You know , very often you hear the people that are actually talking about the things they 've done are normally the ones that have n't quite got there . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ There are certain characteristics of the Fijian people that are ideally suited to sevens — their amazing ball skills and tremendous explosive pace . |
| 16 | Secondly , migration from the cities has in net terms been removing the types of people that are least affected by increasing unemployment . |
| 17 | Sally uses mixed media and is still experimenting with other materials . |
| 18 | All the studios and apartments sleep 2–4 people and are comfortably furnished with private bathroom facilities and a balcony with sea view . |
| 19 | All rooms sleep 2–4 people and are fully equipped with cooking facilities , fridge and private bathroom . |
| 20 | Duke Berthold of Zähringen was now put up as the candidate of the Welfs because he appeared a man of means and was well known for his hostility to the Staufer . |
| 21 | NCA can undertake a wide variety of specialist role modifications to the Caribou and are currently working on a palletised anti-pollution system that would enable an operator to maintain the capacity of the fuselage , but to change to oil-slick dispersant status very quickly . |
| 22 | It accounts for some 8.5 per cent of all take-home lager sales and is also sold in draught . |
| 23 | ‘ Their effect will be to require the same accuracy of description in relation to property sales as is already required of sellers of goods and other service providers . |
| 24 | In some species that are heavily preyed upon , such as the Polynesian blue-tailed skink , the tail colour is unusually retained right through into adulthood . |
| 25 | Dabs , flounder and whiting are three species that are often caught in great numbers from the shore yet often fail to make the measure . |
| 26 | Does n't it ever strike you as faintly ludicrous — the pursuit of happiness by a species that is less equipped for it than anything in nature ? ’ |
| 27 | But both polar regions support vegetation and land fauna that are well adapted to their environments ( Chapter 6 ) and varied enough to keep generations of ecologists interested in them . |
| 28 | Look at the stuff he 's holding on to : he is n't selling any of his great Minimal works , his Carl Andres or Donald Judds , but those are works that are still climbing in value . ’ |
| 29 | American elder ( Sambucus canadensis ) is a closely related species and was widely used by American Indians as a folk medicine . |
| 30 | The assailant demanded money and the victim handed over £6 and was then punched to the ground . |