Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 2 | list , to the extent that in many instances the weights recorded for each species in the two lists are quite different . |
| 3 | Prior to the close of business on the redemption date , the debentures can be exchanged for common shares of Southern New England Telecommunications Corp at a rate of 8.358 shares for each $1,000 in principal , subject to Sprint 's right to pay cash equal to a five-day average of the closing price of Southern New England 's common shares . |
| 4 | Though production is steadily increasing , Britain 's IT firms provided work for 186000 people in 1980 , 20000 fewer than 10 years previously . |
| 5 | we 're hoping to get tax cut for tall people in Germany — things are more expensive if you 're tall , but you 're not paid a salary proportionate to your size ! |
| 6 | Only in high-tech R&D units do they work as technical staff in any numbers without supporting technicians . |
| 7 | For example , we have already held a seminar for administrative staff in colleges mounting 1988 pilots ( a short account of this event follows this article ) . |
| 8 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 9 | Increases in the costs of transport , housing and health charges and other costs for food , heating and clothing , are becoming unbearable for retired people in my part of the world . |
| 10 | The National Deaf and Dumb Society , the first ever national organisation for deaf people in Britain , had had a very short-lived existence — a mere 6 years — before it dissolved in internal strife in 1885 . |
| 11 | Then a workshop for deaf people in Scotland offered to print the information from the pack into book form . |
| 12 | This is at least untrue in the USA , where there is a comprehensive system of further education for deaf people in which the medium is an accepted form of ASL which hearing instructors use . |
| 13 | MILKMEN around Darlington are planning to pick up groceries and medicine for needy people in Russia . |
| 14 | Elsewhere they form isolated patch reefs up to about 1.5 km in diameter and about 30–100 m in thickness ( Füchtbauer 1972 and 1980 ; Peryt 1976 ) . |
| 15 | Of particular interest is the availability of both powerful browsing and searching facilities , the recording of all information concerning user trails as persistent data in fully-fledged data-base tables , and the dynamic variation of text unit size to meet changing user demands . |
| 16 | At a stroke , the need for 300 staff in the health benefit unit could end and they could be redeployed to improve other parts of the service . |
| 17 | In addition there are ten , flat-floored seminar rooms with capacity for 30–50 people in classroom-style arrangement . |
| 18 | Ariana is the brainchild of Roger Haddad , who previously founded Metrologie , probably one of the most successful value added hardware and software distribution networks ever created in Europe , with sales worth some $1bn in 1990 . |
| 19 | The software component of its business is now worth some £215m in total , split 49% , 36% and 15% between operating systems , information management ( including CASE and databases for example ) and applications ( like OfficePower ) respectively . |
| 20 | Unless and until more knowledge is gathered concerning the aspirations , capabilities and limitations of schools and the people who work in them , and until sufficient flexibility is built into syllabus planning to allow for the necessary variations that are inherent in planning and providing learning for different people in different contexts , the gap between prescription and reality will remain an unconscionably wide one . |
| 21 | Different moral considerations might apply for different people in the face of similar moral dilemmas . |
| 22 | A more satisfactory explanation might be that different moral considerations apply for different people in similar situations . |
| 23 | This point has been made strongly about the Home Help Service , arguably the most crucial support for old people in the community , by Goldberg and Connelly ( 1982 ) , and more recently by the Audit Commission ( 1985 ) . |
| 24 | Thus we can see that an uncertainty exists about formal support for old people in the community which contrasts oddly with the general acceptance of accountability for those in residential care , even in the private sector . |
| 25 | Of course the reverse may also be possible , that hostility and resentment build up , but this is all the more reason that a social worker should continue to be available for old people in residential care and the families . |
| 26 | The assay was done for 30 min in the presence of either 0.1μM free Ca 2+ and 0.9mM sodium deoxycholate ( + ) , or 10μM free Ca 2+ and 3.4mM sodium deoxycholate ( ++ ) . |
| 27 | ( vii ) After 5 — 10 min , drain off all excess fixative and wash the slide for 30 sec in 0.4% Photoflo from a wash bottle . |
| 28 | COS 7 cells ( 2 106 ) were transfected with 1 µg DNA and 500 µg DEAE-Dextran ( Pharmacia ) in 1 ml Hanks-balanced salt solution ( Kantonsapotheke Zürich ) for 30 min , shocked in 25% DMSO solution in Hanks for 3 min and then incubated for 30 hr in fresh DME-Medium containing10% FCS . |
| 29 | In the meantime Dezotti , who has scored eight goals for lowly Cremonese in the Italian First Division , has a chance to stake his claim to Valdano 's old position . |
| 30 | In the meantime Dezotti , who has scored eight goals for lowly Cremonese in the Italian First Division , has a chance to stake his claim to Valdano 's old position . |