Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | What guns the unit possessed had been captured in raids on isolated police barracks or ambushes on convoys in which men — his comrades — had willingly risked their lives . |
| 2 | This tome concentrated on the operational side of the type 's history , not just during World War Two , where the aircraft was undoubtedly the best long range fighting aircraft that served on all sides of the war , but through all the other conflicts in which the P-51 participated . |
| 3 | An example of the groundcrew 's efforts is well illustrated by their handling of the last aircraft that arrived on May 1 . |
| 4 | To illustrate how zeros work in practice , TR Technology Trust 's zeros have a market price of 166p and mature on April 30 , 1998 at a projected price of 313p — equivalent to a yearly gross redemption yield of just over 10.5 p.c . |
| 5 | Bandar Khomeini and Kharg were subsequently attacked by Iraqi aircraft and hits on shipping claimed . |
| 6 | Moreover , the advent of low-cost , high-density-storage devices like CD-ROMs may well make substantial data sets available even to those with modest computing power : a CD-ROM , for instance , can hold about 600 megabytes ( i.e. 10&sup6 ; bytes ) , can be reproduced currently for about £1 and read on a device costing about £400 . |
| 7 | He has set up Klesch & Co to trade loans in troubled companies such as Heron and to advise on corporate restructurings . |
| 8 | The executive board of ICI uses an information base which includes limited operational data and concentrates on strategic information . |
| 9 | They could then be converted back into vector form as polygon data and superimposed on the deterministic results . |
| 10 | Our next drafts eliminated the test data and focused on the conclusions . |
| 11 | An understandable desire on the part of model proprietors to produce forecasts and assess their accuracy as quickly as possible leads to a situation in which relationships are estimated on one vintage of data but assessed on another . |
| 12 | This improvement can be achieved by collecting and using access data as explained on page 399 . |
| 13 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 14 | To evaluate the effects of bFGF and sucralfate on ulcer healing , the animals of series A were treated for seven days and the anaesthetised with ether . |
| 15 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON ACUTE GASTRIC LESIONS INDUCED BY 100% ETHANOL , ACIDIFIED ASPIRIN , OR STRESS |
| 16 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON THE NUMBER OF CAPILLARIES AND MYOFIBROBLASTS AT THE ULCER MARGIN |
| 17 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON NUCLEIC ACID CONTENT IN THE GASTRIC MUCOSA |
| 18 | It is a late-maturing breed and bears a superficial resemblance to the Limousin , whose region is fairly close to that of the Parthenais , but it is larger , bulls standing at about 138cm and weighing on average 1,050kg , and cows 135cm and 775kg . |
| 19 | After that , the food chains ( see p 110 ) , can be very long ; fish such as sharks feeding upon fish , which feed on fish , which feed on fish that feed on plankton . |
| 20 | Numerous other predators and pathogens ( viruses , bacteria , protozoa , fungi and nematodes ) are also being investigated and the following are ready for evaluation in the field : Poecilia reticula and Aplocheilus spp. , fish that feed on mosquito larvae ; Bocillus sphaericus , a spore-forming bacterium that attacks mosquitoes ; Culicinomyces clavosporus , a fungus that kills mosquitoes ; and Romano- mermis culicivorax , a nematode worm that inhabits and kills mosquito larvae . |
| 21 | Its latest report lists two agents as likely to be widely used in the near future , Gambusio affinis , a fish that feeds on mosquito larvae , and Bacillus thuringiensis , a bacterium that kills mosquito larvae . |
| 22 | His intention is the cuddly fish that feeds on acorns and sleeps through the winter when nobody wants to go outside and look in their fishpond anyway . ’ |
| 23 | The young of the emperor butterfly fish that live on coral reefs seem to use this system too . |
| 24 | Bulls stand about 157cm and weigh on average 1,200kg ; cows are 136–140cm and 750–850kg . |
| 25 | However , holiday expenditure rose by twenty four percent and spending on overseas trips rose by fifty percent . |
| 26 | I make no apology for repeating the fact that a farmer 's living comes from the soil and the crops and livestock that grow on it ; and not from buildings , machinery , and equipment . |
| 27 | Copepods Parabroteas sarsi and Pseudoboeckella poppei overwinter only as eggs in water bodies that freeze completely or become anoxic ; in large lakes they are active year-round , breeding in late winter to produce nauplii that feed on the early plankton bloom . |
| 28 | Actuaries are well qualified to analyse the relevant statistics and advise on appropriate premium and reserving bases . |
| 29 | Most of them simply release their eggs and sperm and rely on the surrounding water to bring them together . |
| 30 | Mark bought an elephant , Tara , for £4000 and embarked on a 600 mile trek with five eccentric Indian companions , from Konarak on the shores of the Bay of Bengal to Sonepur by the mighty River Ganges . |