Example sentences of "[n mass] [am/are] [vb pp] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to pay more attention to what we believe is an increasingly serious health problem is a product of the way in which occupational mortality data are recorded and analysed . |
| 2 | The difficulties of integrating data are compounded by the fact that there are few standards governing the way in which geographical data are collected and reported . |
| 3 | This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity . |
| 4 | The ease or otherwise with which test data are interpreted and related to behaviour in the market depends on the type of test . |
| 5 | When survey data are coded and punched for analysis by computer it is all too easy to ask the computer to carry out a range of cross-tabulations of one factor by another . |
| 6 | Official statistics are gathered and recorded in different ways between one country and another . |
| 7 | For example , on the diagram the points corresponding to concentration c 3 are joined and extrapolated to intersect with an imaginary line corresponding to the value of k′c 3 on the abscissa ; similarly all points measured at 90° are joined and extrapolated until the point corresponding to is reached . |
| 8 | It has not been one of those lives where people are rejected and say , ‘ I 'll show them . ’ |
| 9 | Almost all individualists are willing to concede that actions have some causal antecedents , since they allow that people are shaped and constrained by environmental factors which form their personalities and affect what they do . |
| 10 | Such progressions were termed ‘ job ladders ’ , and economists describe the way in which people are selected and promoted up these ladders as internal labour markets . |
| 11 | People are born and raised within one country , without considering the question of choice . |
| 12 | The means by which people are caught and recruited into the underclass has changed . |
| 13 | It is only when people are shown and offered things that excite their brains and imagination that standards go up . |
| 14 | Youth has always been the ideological sign of pleasure because it is a time of irresponsibility , possibility , change ; young people are envied and feared and so feature in the organization of consumption as a recurring adult fantasy . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've always bought when other people are squeezed and have got to sell . |
| 16 | Certainly , people are seduced and abandoned by the media , by its lush images — but you have to deal with that , infiltrate ideas in , give people back their vertebrae . ’ |
| 17 | There is a convincing body of research indicating that people are educated and trained more effectively if they are able to interact with the educational or training medium . |
| 18 | Much too may be achieved by ensuring that people are educated and trained to operate in an environmentally sensitive way . |
| 19 | Staff are underpaid and know next to nothing about wine . |
| 20 | This means the boats , equipment , operating methods , safety standards and staff are examined and approved annually by the highest UK National Authority . |
| 21 | Ward staff are invited and encouraged to participate in the learner 's project and to attend the presentation . |
| 22 | The provision of goods and services costs less , and their quality is improved : staff are highly motivated , leading to greater loyalty and job satisfaction and lower staff turnover ; the staff are respected and rewarded for using their initiative and suggesting improvements , and customer complaints are reduced . |
| 23 | ‘ As species are produced and exterminated by slowly acting causes , and not by miraculous acts of creation ; and as the most important of all causes of organic change is one which is almost independent of altered and perhaps suddenly altered physical conditions , namely , the mutual relation of organism to organism — the improvement of one organism entailing the improvement or the extermination of others ’ . |
| 24 | Tesco recognise this and are taking considerable steps to make sure flora and fauna are protected and conserved . |