Example sentences of "[n mass] on the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before , Cati had fallen asleep sitting with her mother and Rosa on the balcony in the cool of the evening ; when her mother had given her a gentle push to rouse her ; she found her slightly feverish and put her to bed . |
| 2 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 3 | Mark the positions of the 20 l.e.d.s on the front of the tie using a pen . |
| 4 | Look , heron on the edge of that alfalfa field . ’ |
| 5 | More deliberate ( as one would expect ) is the oscillation of another ruler disguised to enquire into the behaviour of his subjects , King Henry V. On the eve of Agincourt , dressed as a commoner , the King moves among his soldiers speaking prose . |
| 6 | General Robert Scott is still alive and has sent Dick a hand written description of his first aircraft on the back of a photograph he had of himself with his P-40 . |
| 7 | On Oct. 2 , 128 people including 37 foreigners died when a Boeing 737 belonging to the Civil Aviation Administration hit two other aircraft on the runway during an emergency landing at Baiyun airport in Guangdong after two hijackers had ordered the crew to fly to Taiwan . |
| 8 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 9 | For the 1984–88 series , data on alcohol and tobacco consumption were recorded in the hospital records but there was insufficient data on the quantity of consumption to allow detailed analysis . |
| 10 | A broader economic analysis [ over a range of markets ] of secondary data on the pace of technology change and market structure . |
| 11 | There is now ( as we have seen Tiger and Fox recognising ) a wealth of anthropological data on the evolution of man as a conceptualising , language-using animal . |
| 12 | The lack of regression of gastric metaplasia in the bulb , however , is biologically compatible with the current data on the evolution of acid secretion after eradication of H pylori . |
| 13 | In 1982 , the IWC introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling on the basis of incomplete data on the size of the population and whether it was sufficient to sustain commercial activity without risk to the species . |
| 14 | The data on the consumption of food antedate mortality statistics by 10 years , and include all foodstuffs with high sugar content , like honey , syrup , and glucose , in proportion to their sugar content . |
| 15 | The Commons 's select committee on transport recommended ‘ in view of the present lack of empirical data on the performance of road pavements capable of carrying more than 20 million standard axles this appears to us to be an extremely short-sighted cutback by the Department . ’ |
| 16 | In 1915 Townsend was appointed assistant director of the London county council 's civic survey , a scheme to employ architects deprived of work by the war in the collection of social and physical data on the structure of the city . |
| 17 | Recent data on the stratigraphy of the top surface of the Carboniferous and its depth below the Permian , Mesozoic and Cainozoic cover , as well as new gas fields ( found since 1978 ) have likewise been incorporated . |
| 18 | Hard data on the degree of protection afforded by the homoeopathic remedies , therefore , does not exist . |
| 19 | Subgroup analyses from 433 patients in the SCATI trial provide the only available mortality data on the addition of heparin to thrombolysis in the absence of aspirin . |
| 20 | At present , the only available data on the addition of intravenous heparin to full-dose aspirin plus thrombolysis are from non-randomised comparisons . |
| 21 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 22 | This program was begun in 1985 to harmonize the collection of data on the state of the environment in the European Community in order to improve environmental policy formulation and implementation ( Wyatt , Briggs and Mounsey , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Existing data on the location of GH5 in the nucleosome are conflicting . |
| 24 | By performing Markov chain analysis on bibliometric data on the field of symbolic logic , Goffman derived curves which represented the growth of major concepts , and the oscillation of research activity . |
| 25 | MacDonald claims that the only located source of systematic collection of data on the progress of non-traditional students over a period of years was at Glasgow Polytechnic for the BA Social Science course . |
| 26 | Experimental data on the influence of temperature and pressure on phase equilibria can be represented by phase diagrams . |
| 27 | Previous data on the influence of Helicobacter pylori on synthesis of eicosanoids have been inconclusive . |
| 28 | Data on the proportion of college-aged young people at universities and colleges differ slightly because of the accuracy of statistics available at any one time , the definitions of the group in question and the types of course and institutions included . |
| 29 | National data on the proportion of households sharing kitchens , bathrooms , and other amenities have only been available from the census since 1951 . |
| 30 | There are little data on the nutrition of abyssal ophiuroids ( Litvinova & Sokolova 1971 , Litvinova , 1980 ) or of their predators or parasites . |