Example sentences of "[n mass] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company said end of year financial results — which recorded its first profitable quarter , thought to be around $1m on revenues of $45m — will give it the opportunity to concentrate on software . |
| 2 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
| 3 | Original plan was to load the aircraft on barges in the River Cart at Abbotsinch then float them to Greenock via the Clyde for transfer to the carrier anchored in midstream . |
| 4 | L.G.M. Rees , the pilot of the Sunderland reported : ‘ My aircraft was launched at last light the evening before the sortie since it was dangerous at that time to leave an aircraft on moorings in daylight where it could be easy prey to enemy aircraft . |
| 5 | Markusen 's ( 1987 ) data on changes in non-agricultural employment , for example , demonstrate striking variations among the standard census regions ( table 5.1 ) . |
| 6 | The report , written by consultant Geoffrey Sinclair , used four sets of government data on changes in land use to give " consensus " figures . |
| 7 | A limited amount of data on changes in ΔC p [ 13 , 16 , 26 , 31 ] on melting RNA and DNA duplexes equate with small contributions from the hydrophobic effect ( ΔG h ) to duplex stability of between 0 and -12 kJ mol -1 per base pair ( contrast no observed heat capacity change for single strand melting ) . |
| 8 | The assumption which seems to prevail in the literature on conduct disorder is that certain disordered personality characteristics are formed which tend to continue , although the data on continuities in adverse social conditions which would confirm this assumption is by and large absent . |
| 9 | A cross national analysis of data on women in Maternity Care Monitoring Programmes determined that anaemia was twice as prevalent among women of fourth and higher order as among those with three or fewer children . |
| 10 | The project is building and extending large computerised collections of data on patterns of births and deaths and trades and occupations . |
| 11 | It is therefore all the more significant that , among the few statistics it does contain , data on variations in performance between providers feature so prominently — 50% variation in acute hospital treatment costs , for example , or 100% variation in general practitioner prescribing costs . |
| 12 | Historical data on claims for night visits were derived from the manual payment ledgers of the family health services authority for each quarter for the 10 years beginning October 1982 . |
| 13 | They are however unable to provide any satisfactory data on differences in degree performance associated with gender . |
| 14 | Twite ( 199Oa ; 1990c ) analysed four years of daily closing price data on futures on the Australian Stock Exchange All Ordinaries Share Price Index , computing returns as the natural logarithm of the price relatives . |
| 15 | The APU has data on difficulties in written tests within live 20 per cent attainment bands . |
| 16 | The project is therefore a time-series analysis of socio-economic change , based specifically on a follow-up sample of informant households and supported by comparing wider data on structures of power , tenency and labour relations . |
| 17 | Though government data on accidents at work do not distinguish between manual and non-manual workers , they differentiate according to industries . |
| 18 | It may be , says George , that the public should be privy to the codes which doctors use to rustle up data on drugs on their TV screens . |
| 19 | The aim was to provide important benchmark data on trends in social attitudes , a sort of continuous subjective social accounting to supplement the objective accounting of the Blue Books . |
| 20 | The mainframe will back up data on PCs on LANs ’ . |
| 21 | The first school of thought tended to examine data on outcomes in order to find an explanation . |
| 22 | The data on applications at the head of this section can be checked against the information in Figure 2.4 for the Polytechnic as a whole . |
| 23 | Data on breaches of the taboo in small-scale communities are sparse and largely considered as cases of individual deviance . |
| 24 | refer to information books , dictionaries , word books or simple data on computers as a matter of course . |
| 25 | Data on deaths in the UK from volatile substances abuse ( VSA ) have been recorded by a team from the Department of Public Health Sciences , St George 's Hospital Medical School , London , since 1971 , and these data have been collected in a ‘ stable and systematic ’ manner since 1983 . |
| 26 | Many of them must have died in infancy and childhood , but we have no data on deaths before 1951 . |
| 27 | As we have noted earlier , the lack of any data on transfers within the family means that we can not look at some of the interesting questions concerning the distribution between individuals ( e.g. , between men and women ) . |
| 28 | Because LEAs are not required to provide data on units to the DES as they are , for example , in respect of special schools , it is impossible to say how many teachers work in them . |
| 29 | This study will continue the analysis of data on aspects of Unit infants ' experience that might explain the developmental strengths and weaknesses demonstrated in the main study . |
| 30 | This project first develops a methodology to enable the annually-published data on levels of expenditure and provision to be used , freed from distortion by inflation and changed definitions . |