Example sentences of "the [n mass] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everything is under control , ’ said Major Edgardo Lopez Grimaldo , a spokesman for the PDF and a senior Noriega aide , as the rebels , in civilian dress , were led from the barracks by members of the 2000 Battalion , the general 's elite combat force . |
| 2 | The assumption which seems to prevail in the literature on conduct disorder is that certain disordered personality characteristics are formed which tend to continue , although the data on continuities in adverse social conditions which would confirm this assumption is by and large absent . |
| 3 | It is also consistent with the data on transits of Mercury that Parkinson 's team used as evidence for the constancy of the solar radius ; according to their data any change has to be smaller than 0.15 seconds of arc per century . |
| 4 | The data on applications at the head of this section can be checked against the information in Figure 2.4 for the Polytechnic as a whole . |
| 5 | Indeed , the data from patients with brain injury that I will be discussing in the final two sections are very puzzling indeed from the standpoint of folk psychology . |
| 6 | Curiously , in their paper suggesting the constancy of the solar diameter , Parkinson and his colleagues did mention that the data from transits of Mercury show hints of a periodic variation in the Sun 's size with a cycle time of about 80 years . |
| 7 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 8 | The very high quality of the data in terms of capacity to provide a good sample of everyday language is of course the major advantage of a participant observation method . |
| 9 | On a select number of occasions the licensing authority has decided not to disclose to the medical profession and patients the data behind reasons for its decisions — for example , those relating to Opren ( benoxoprofen ) and Halcion ( triazolam ) . |
| 10 | A ground party was immediately organised to manhandle the aircraft onto sheets of corrugated iron positioned on the tarmac . |
| 11 | The Pathfinder Platoon is the only brigade sub-unit to use this free-fall technique , Which enhances the chances of avoiding detection and involves leaving the aircraft at heights of up to 25,000 feet , followed by a long free-fall descent and then landing using steerable parachutes . |
| 12 | Original plan was to load the aircraft on barges in the River Cart at Abbotsinch then float them to Greenock via the Clyde for transfer to the carrier anchored in midstream . |
| 13 | Those necessary to establish the attitude of the aircraft in terms of pitch , roll and yaw throughout the reconstructed flight-path . |
| 14 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 15 | The loads are constructed and pushed out of the aircraft by men from the army 's Royal Logistic Corps . |
| 16 | Unless , that is , his motive was to supply the infantry with sprigs of mistletoe to give to their sweethearts at Christmas . |
| 17 | The association between birth weight and β cell function was not significant in the offspring of mothers with hyperglycaemia , possibly because of the confounding effect of maternal hyperglycaemia during pregnancy . |
| 18 | The church also disqualified the offspring of concubines from inheriting , but in allowing Swegen to rule Norway Cnut recognised that he had a claim . |
| 19 | There is a high risk of fetal damage in the offspring of women with phenylketonuria . |
| 20 | Congenital anomalies are uncommon in the offspring of women with phenylalanine concentrations below 900 µmol/l at the time of conception . |
| 21 | He has studied the offspring of women with a history of schizophrenia who have been adopted by non-schizophrenic mothers . |
| 22 | So the 46% of houses in Barnet that the government reckons will be in the top band will all pay the same amount , irrespective of their value . |
| 23 | Time the whole operation carefully , watching the fish for signs of distress . |
| 24 | And acid rain is killing the fish in lakes across the rich world . |
| 25 | After thirty years as an administrator in the National Health Service and an adviser on policing , Miss James was enlisted for service in the corps of commissionaires of British public life . |
| 26 | The first numbers refer to the percent of occasions on which both is included , conditional on a plural reference being made anyway . |
| 27 | They stay on the statistics as villages with ‘ adequate water supplies ’ . |
| 28 | In this move power was taken away from the people as participants in the ritual and invested totally in the god . |
| 29 | So say we put the people into pairs into sets of two . |
| 30 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |