Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chassis has mixed abilities , too . |
| 2 | And a top detective at RUC headquarters has echoed Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley 's claim that the law is helping the terrorists . |
| 3 | Centralized control by headquarters has forced field staff to yield some power over the routine disposal of cases . |
| 4 | The sheep has stopped crying . |
| 5 | Debt nominally worth about $150m has changed hands , say market sources . |
| 6 | If your amaryllis has produced seed pods , you may fancy raising seedlings . |
| 7 | But this does not mean that any undue ‘ stretching ’ of the data has taken place . |
| 8 | And in peacetime , the aircraft has brought aid to areas of famine , and joined in other humanitarian missions — the latest to wartorn Sarajevo . |
| 9 | Meanwhile an expert on historic aircraft has paid tribute to both pilot and plane : |
| 10 | A proportion of the fry had changed colour pattern . |
| 11 | A survey of the US top 100 firms by Public Accounting Report showed that almost 25% had seen revenue fall over the past 12 months , with a further 20% reporting growth of less than inflation . |
| 12 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 13 | German aircraft had parachuted mines into the Thames estuary . |
| 14 | Bombing was already an established function of airpower ( as early as September 1914 German Taube aircraft had bombed Paris ) , and the Germans had the machines available . |
| 15 | Sporadic fighting was reported during the rest of October , and on Oct. 26 Interfax cited the Karabakh news agency as having reported that Azerbaijani MiG-25 aircraft had bombed Stepanakert , the Nagorny Karabakh capital . |
| 16 | On May 30 Honduras protested officially to El Salvador over an attack on a Honduran patrol in Honduran waters on May 23 and the violation of airspace on May 29 when , it said , a Salvadorean aircraft had dropped propaganda leaflets on refugee camps in the border area . |
| 17 | Sadly , Z2033 was to suffer a minor accident even before the aircraft had left Staverton . |
| 18 | The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries . |
| 19 | While Chorus is signing up some impressive allies , including the Santa Cruz Operation , Tandem , ICL and Inmos , Carnegie-Mellon 's Mach has found favour with the US defense industry . |
| 20 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 21 | A considerable proportion of euro-credit lending takes this form but the granting of large loans of over $50m has encouraged banks to provide funds via loan syndication . |
| 22 | AN unofficial fast lap of over 119 mph has put Phillip McCallen in the right frame of mind to grab the glory in tomorrow 's Coca Cola North West 200 over the Portstewart-Coleraine-Portrush circuit ( roads close 11.00am ) |
| 23 | The laser cannon had stopped firing . |
| 24 | ‘ Interest rates are not going to fall much more , and prices for properties under £100,000 have reached rock bottom . ’ |
| 25 | I know that some folk have had cases from America which have not been too well done , and , in fact , felt that they were over-embalmed and no make-up . |
| 26 | 12% have had in-patient stays in the first 9 months in the community . |
| 27 | The overfishing of herring and other fish has caused problems for bird species dependent on these stocks , particularly in wintertime . |
| 28 | I later discovered this is the colouring of juvenile specimens and the darker colouring should appear after the fish has reached 20cm — mine duly obliged after about a week . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Fish has slammed councillors who blocked the club 's plans for a Monday market at the team 's Boothferry Road ground . |
| 30 | Of the fifty two children entering the school in September 1991 only six percent had received nursery education , compared with thirty nine percent from families who have moved in to in the past . |