Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [conj] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The installation comprises four Sequent S2000/200 processors , 5Gb of storage and 64Mb of RAM and will help modernise the network 's central communications node , which is causing serious bottlenecks and long delays in sending local messages . |
| 2 | Some of you I know are working but some now Roger are people of leisure and will therefore I hope er be able to find more space in their diaries to quaff the glass of er cheap wine and er raise it |
| 3 | Changes in technology have made it possible to imagine means of communication that would have been unthinkable two hundred years ago : radio broadcasts , instant word-processing , telephone conversations , etc . |
| 4 | The regulation is thus achieved by defining roles , or areas of responsibilities , for individuals and groups , and formalizing the means of communication that can pass between them . |
| 5 | How you look at someone , the attention you give them and your body language are all means of communication and can have a strong effect upon the recipient , even if he only perceives it on a subconscious level . |
| 6 | It is the theory that linguistic communication consists in conveying mental things — ideas — from one person 's mind to another person 's mind by means of things that can be heard or seen , things which if one accepts the theory , are called ‘ signs ’ or ‘ symbols ‘ . |
| 7 | What he is concerned with is the discovery of the right formulation to ‘ fashion it thus ’ , a means of presentation that will persuade an audience that Caesar needed to die and was killed by actions undertaken in the public rather than in a private interest . |
| 8 | The local radio is another useful means of advertising that can reach a wide audience of potential customers . |
| 9 | In this way Miliband argued that power was derived not just from ownership of the means of production but might also derive from position as a politician or bureaucrat in the state 's institutions . |
| 10 | Walking is the only means of transport that can claim to be universal … yet the pedestrian is the most neglected of travellers … ironically , it is perhaps because walking is so commonplace that it is neglected — pedestrians are so universal as to be almost invisible . |
| 11 | The current drug of choice is oxybutynin , which in divided daily doses of between 5 and 15 mg may improve symptoms in up to 70% of patients but will make only half of them continent . |
| 12 | As a black hole got smaller and hotter , it would emit a larger and larger number of different species of particles and would produce an explosion perhaps 100,000 times more powerful than the one calculated on the quark hypothesis . |
| 13 | There are hundreds of species of fish that can be called ‘ brackish ’ because they live where two water worlds meet — the estuaries . |
| 14 | It is also stipulated in the agreement that the only works of art that may not be transferred to Bilbao from New York are those that are subject to American legal restrictions , or works that are too fragile to travel . |
| 15 | After returning the painting to the icon shop , the dealer subsequently received two contradictory letters , the first stating that ‘ his ’ Wtewael had been placed on the national index of important works of art that could not leave Germany , and the follow-up , which noted that the Wtewael had been taken off the index , and that it could , therefore , be exported . |
| 16 | We created works of art that could not even be imagined by lesser races ; we pushed our bodies even further and devised whole new theories and systems to improve our way of life . |
| 17 | The module provides up to 16Mb of memory and will boot from LAN Manager , NetWare and Unix environments . |
| 18 | TOMATO CONTINUE to impress with a pair of releases that may be label mates but , in relationship to each other , go no further than holding hands . |
| 19 | Our next stop comprises a pair of gems that would be world famous were they more amenably located , but that would be to detract from the peerless setting in which both Aldeburgh and Thorpeness golf clubs find themselves . |
| 20 | A small pair of scissors that will cut in awkward little corners , etc. ; |
| 21 | The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last . |
| 22 | But he 's even becoming a complete , in the holidays when I 've got the housework to do and meals to cook , and him to look after if there 's another pair of hands that can take him out for an hour |
| 23 | The five stories which catch our eye will win the author a pair of tickets and may appear in the magazine in future months . |
| 24 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 25 | The maid fled to her room but could still hear Mrs Putt 's shrill voice until there was a brief , muffled scream , followed by a whole series of sounds that might have been a fight . |
| 26 | You are also about to embark on a series of exercises that will start you on the road to a more beautiful body — a body of which you will be proud . |
| 27 | John suggests a series of moves that will bring her closer and closer to Otto with each phrase . |
| 28 | WESTERN EUROPE is to decide this month on a series of satellites that will provide data for weather forecasts until well into the 1990s . |
| 29 | We set about a series of innovations that would give them access to that understanding , by means that were practicable within an already existing framework . |
| 30 | But his dream of reaching the White House was haunted almost from the start by a series of disclosures that would have wrecked the career of another politician . |