Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the most difficult investigations involve aircraft that crash in deep water , frequently depriving the investigator of much of his evidence . |
| 2 | Scientists worldwide are facing the ever-increasing dilemma of how to handle vast quantities of data that advances in high technology have made it possible to generate . |
| 3 | The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them . |
| 4 | In the breeding aquarium they could suck in the fry and result in heavy losses . |
| 5 | Microworm make an excellent first food for all small fry but because of their size are not able to satisfy the appetite of larger fry unless fed in vast quantities . |
| 6 | In species where fertilization is internal , they are also much less pertinent with genetic relationship of offspring because investing in unrelated offsprings one 's . |
| 7 | Remove the skin from abut 100g/4oz roe and soak in cold water for two hours . |
| 8 | The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms . |
| 9 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 10 | Gobies , small fish that live in tidal rock pools , prove in a particularly convincing way that they have such a thing . |
| 11 | THE PRICE of Royal Enclosure tickets at this year 's Royal Tournament is £23.00 and not £22.00 as printed in last month 's Wavelength . |
| 12 | ‘ The consequence of the combined decision not to recruit expert staff or to invest in extensive training could be considerable . |
| 13 | Were there any different class of people that lived in that part of town then Street and Street and that ? |
| 14 | It is imperative not to accept the subjects of popular interest as the objects of theoretical scrutiny , not to reify a concept of dubious historical provenance , but instead to unpack the powerful rhetoric that hides behind the notion of the inner city , to outline the contours of alternative urban realities and to place this empirical evidence in the political and economic context that will determine the life chances of those people that live in real places in real urban locations today . |
| 15 | The waters of the Sol are notoriously cold , and the hardy people that live in that region are used to the mountains and extreme climate . |
| 16 | The forests are an immense resource capable of feeding and sustaining the people that live in forested areas . |
| 17 | When exposed to sudden changes in medium osmolality , cells behave initially as osmometers , swelling in hypo-osmotic media and shrinking in hyperosmotic media . |
| 18 | The drug squad launched a massive operation costing £17,000 and resulting in 112 arrests — some made by ‘ rozzers ’ disguised as hippies ! — while the manager of the nearby Caversham Bridge Hotel barricaded his premises with 12-foot-high chain fencing . |
| 19 | They are run by separate trustees and staff and compete in various ways . |
| 20 | Rat liver plasma membranes prepared by the method of Aronson and Touster were resuspended in 5 mM HEPES buffer pH 7.5 at approximately 5 mg/ml and stored in liquid nitrogen until used . |
| 21 | So women have to challenge owner-occupation and , in particular , council-house sales and cuts in public expenditure in housing , since it is they as housewives , mothers and single parents who inevitably bear the brunt of reduced decent public housing , and the increased push towards owner-occupation . |
| 22 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
| 23 | It is typical of species that breed in short-lived pools , like the spadefoot toad . |
| 24 | But explosive breeding also occurs in many North American , European and Asian species that breed in permanent pools . |
| 25 | Each autumn , almost half the species that breed in northern Europe start to move south . |
| 26 | Many species that thrive in polar habitats are found also in subpolar and temperate habitats . |
| 27 | The classic brackish water system where oscillation of the neap and spring tides gives ‘ tidal prisms ’ of mixed waters and mixing of the flora and fauna that live in each world . |
| 28 | In 1887 he was appointed district surveyor for Charlton , Lee , and Kidbrooke under the Metropolitan board of works and continued in this post under the London county council . |
| 29 | In recounting his goal-scoring triumphs , Ken Mentle had the unique ability to empty the Duck and Forceps in six minutes flat . |
| 30 | Immersion heaters are generally rated at 3kW and come in different lengths to suit different sizes of cylinder : do n't attempt to economise by fitting a shorter vertically mounted one than you need — it will heat only the water above it . |