Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | BBC1 is very popular , while UTV goes into well over 50pc of homes in the Republic . |
| 32 | A new poll commissioned by the Birth Control Trust showed that 82pc of people in the province thought abortion should be legal where it was necessary for the physical or mental health of the woman . |
| 33 | Gastric blood flow averaged about 62 ( 5 ) ml/ min/100 g of tissue in the oxyntic portion of intact mucosa . |
| 34 | This project will now generalise its findings to the graphical teaching of more powerful logics and to the choice of media of expression in the design of computer interfaces . |
| 35 | Interactionists made much of how such variations could lead to a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ : if the public ( informed by the media of rises in the criminal statistics ) believes crime to be on the increase and more of a problem they may be more sensitive to it , report more to the police who will then record more and therefore produce a further rise in recorded crime , which is then fed back to the public by the media , and so on ( see Wilkins , 1964 ; and Young , 1971 ) . |
| 36 | Microsoft 's selling costs amounted to 33% of sales in the nine months to the end of March , up from 27% three years earlier . |
| 37 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 38 | The democratic vision of President de Klerk needs the support by all people of goodwill in the forthcoming referendum . |
| 39 | It is clear that prophecy was part of the experience of the people of God in the Bible ( see Numbers 11:20,1 Samuel 19:20 , Joel 2:28 , Acts 2:18 ; 15:22 ; 19:6 ; 21:9 , 1 Corinthians 11:4–5 ; 12:28 ; 14:1 and 24 , Ephesians 4:11,1 Thessalonians 5:20 for just a sample of instances ) . |
| 40 | Jesus gathered a small band of followers and , through God 's power , they were to become the people of God in the kingdom of God . |
| 41 | The gift of the messianic Spirit , promised to the people of God in the end-time , depends upon the Messiah accomplishing his mission . |
| 42 | Eyes are another means of expression in the horse . |
| 43 | Communism found its first means of expression in the various international organizations ( the Internationals ) that were established by Marx and Engels and their followers from the 1860s on . |
| 44 | The landlord , being in the stronger bargaining position ( even in the commercial setting ) , may be able to impose onerous requirements upon the tenant by means of covenants in the lease . |
| 45 | ( 1 ) Through the establishment of a monetary union between the contracting parties , the Deutsche Mark shall be the means of payment , unit of account and means of deposit in the entire currency area . |
| 46 | It is not unusual for a researcher to ‘ trail ’ the main publication by means of articles in the learned journals . |
| 47 | In advanced economies the cheque and associated electronic transfer techniques have become the chief means of payment in the business world . |
| 48 | Marx 's analysis of capitalism shows that the system of exploitation of workers by capitalists appears inevitable because of a previous concentration of the means of production in the hands of the capitalists . |
| 49 | Its task was to organise relief and rehabilitation efforts for the victims of that war who had lost their homes , fishing boats , cattle and other means of production in the north-east of Bangladesh . |
| 50 | Chapter 3 outlined the development of the impersonal capital as arguably the dominant mode of possession of the means of production in the contemporary British social formation . |
| 51 | It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation . |
| 52 | ( iv ) Place 20–40 eggs in 1 ml of medium in the central well of a 60 x 15 mm organ tissue culture dish ( Falcon 3010 ) , and culture under 1 ml of sterile paraffin oil ( BDH lightweight 0.840–0.860 g ) at 37-C in a high humidity gassed incubator ( 5% CO2 in air ) . |
| 53 | With land improvements in the LFA until recently attracting 50% grants and drainage attracting either 60% or 70% of costs in the UK ( plus guidance premia for farmers with Development Plans ) , a higher proportion of land improvement costs overall has been borne by the state than by the farmer . |
| 54 | Much of the work in subject studies is taught by staff of faculties in the University other than Education . |
| 55 | Such measures could lead to more sales of euroissues in the US as well as enabling issuance to take place there . |
| 56 | The Alberta Land business achieved a turnover of $12.3 million as a result of the sales of properties in the Calgary and Edmonton areas . |
| 57 | It lost £270,000 on sales of £6.7m in the year to December 1989 , and lost £935,000 on £5.7m sales the previous year . |
| 58 | In fact there are only about three species of tree in the rainforest that have been definitely aged , in terms of their lifespan . |
| 59 | There are approximately 3000 species of cricket in the world . |
| 60 | During the afternoon bird walk , escorted by the resident ornithologist , you will see some of the 400 species of bird in the Baringo area . |