Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A subset of the data is now being incorporated into a multinational comparative data set being compiled by Professor Gershuny at the University of Bath , which for the first time enables comparisons of trends in time use , for similar social groups , across time and across countries .
2 Two of the women had their throats slit after the rapes , ’ the report states.Victims have been assaulted in different situations , said Ms Hampson .
3 Rewards totalling £20,000 have been offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible .
4 Grants of up to £20,000 have been offered in London .
5 A Philips stack hifi system and CDs worth £850 have been stolen in a burglary at a house in Haughton Road , Darlington .
6 A television , two cameras and lenses , a Chinese rug , cutlery and jewellery worth £1,405 have been stolen in a burglary at a house in Elmfield Terrace , Darlington .
7 Provisions amounting to £5.1m have been made against Harland Simon 's total exposure of £5.1m at 31 March 1992 .
8 Data have been exchanged with international seismological agencies based in Boulder ( Colorado ) , Newbury ( England ) and Strasbourg ( France ) , and also with Norway and participants in an EC exchange network comprising Ireland , Denmark , The Netherlands , Belgium , Luxembourg , France and Germany .
9 Data have been compiled on computer about the career and demographic backgrounds of all those who have held positions of leadership in the hierarchies of the Chinese communist Party , the state administration , and the People 's Liberation Army at provincial and regional levels .
10 As I have said before , the results of the testing will be published when all the data have been evaluated in the new year .
11 Data have been obtained from all government and other offices which regularly produce information relating to the local economy .
12 Data have been obtained from some 1,550 diary respondents and preliminary analyses reported in the committee 's journal , The Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , pp. 387-413 .
13 The lexicon notion explains the word frequency phenomenon by assuming that each entry has a threshold for recognition , and that recognition occurs only when sufficient data have been collected about the word for this threshold to be exceeded .
14 Extensive data have been collected through interviews with individual students ; analytic schemes have been developed that are grounded in that data , rather than in single learning theories or externally prescribed theoretical frameworks .
15 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 .
16 Equal-area projection of group-mean data ( stars , lower-hemisphere projections ; reverse-polarity data have been inverted to normal polarity ) with α 95 confidence cones for South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) , and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) .
17 Vitrinite reflectance data have been used in structural studies with the principal applications being the estimate of removed overburden at unconformities and the recognition of repeated section caused by faults ( Dow , 1977 ) .
18 If the data have been ordered into contigs then the positives should occur in overlapping runs ( Fig 3 ) , and inconsistencies in the data are immediately apparent by eye because all the hybridisations to each clone are visible , including those which do not fit well with the current order of clones and probes .
19 The techniques for displaying spatial data have been reviewed in previous chapters .
20 This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another .
21 If the economy is weaker than it now appears — because , as some economists suggest , the government 's data have been inflated by unseasonably warm weather in January and February — then shares could fall sharply to reflect continued declines in company earnings .
22 It must be borne in mind that the majority of these data have been derived from subjects younger than 65 years ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) so that the effect of hypotensive drugs in the older age-groups regardless of their blood-pressure status was largely unknown until the recent publication of the European Working Party Trial which did show significant benefits in the elderly ( Amery et al , 1985 ) .
23 Maturity data shown here for the Peel and Beatrix areas of the Netherlands ( Kuyl and Patijn , 1961 ) are not directly comparable with the other Carboniferous data as these were derived from volatile matter determinations ; the data have been transformed to vitrinite reflectance equivalent for display purposes using the relationships established by McCartney and Teichmüller ( 1972 ) .
24 Automated techniques for studying data have been provided in some software .
25 Attention is also drawn to the fact that since late 1984 a Soviet air unit composed of BADGER and BEAR aircraft and a squadron of FLOGGER aircraft have been deployed at Cam Ranh airfield .
26 The aircraft have been held for a week because Paramount owes Bristol and Birmingham International airports £1.7million .
27 Experimental mice the ‘ SCID-hu mice ’ ( Severe Combined Immune Deficient human tissue mice ) , which can transmit genetic information for HIV into their offspring have been cultured in America : a potential boon for AIDS research .
28 Sumisho Electronics Corp is is to distribute the parallel database servers from Bracknell , Berkshire-based White Cross Systems Ltd in Japan : three orders worth £750,000 have been placed for the 9010 Deskside Server — two for customers , one for Sumisho 's own Tokyo office .
29 Sums of up to £10,000 have been earmarked for both Pocket Theatre and Durham Theatre Company pending further discussions .
30 Jewellery and cricket memorabilia worth £10,000 have been stolen from the home of Jim Parks , the former England wicketkeeper , in Worthing , Sussex .
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