Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 GIBSON Byrdland , sunburst , 1962 , Venetian cutaway , all original , excellent condition with case , £2,250 or swap other guitars .
2 BOSS RPQ-10 preamp/parametric equaliser , half rack effects processor , sell £60 or swap for A-1 condition wah-wah pedal .
3 At the time , we are told by ‘ MRCVS ’ that the College buildings were low and plain , and bleak even to bareness , suggesting a warehouse , barracks or mews rather than a seat of learning ( the brick front facing College Street was not stuccoed until much later ) .
4 What guns the unit possessed had been captured in raids on isolated police barracks or ambushes on convoys in which men — his comrades — had willingly risked their lives .
5 It extended the EC 's observer mission into Croatian territory and envisaged the withdrawal of the JNA , the Serbian guerrillas and Croatian National Guards out of each other 's range before returning to barracks or demobilizing .
6 They offered at £6.15s.0d. , I countered at £7.5s.0d. , confident of settlement at £7.0s.0d. , their counter was £6.15s.0d. or forget it !
7 The first thing that heralds the approach of Autumn is that you are outside one evening , not too late , thinking you 've time to mend the fence , move the sheep or clean the goat pen and suddenly someone turns the light off !
8 The field where the outbreak has originated may be grazed by sheep or rested until the following June .
9 The legs look like the sort of legs that spend most of their time running round after sheep or clasped ( for dear life ) around a large horse .
10 It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about .
11 IBANEZ RG560 , flightcase , excellent condition , £250 or swap for Les Paul Studio 1 model .
12 Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags .
13 BOSS HM2 heavy metal pedal , £35 or swap for CS3 compressor with cash adjustment .
14 This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair .
15 For valuation and appraisal of art collections , and for statistical analysis of 500 individual artists and schools of painting write to : P O Box AMR , The Art Newspaper , Mitre House , 44–46 Fleet Street , London EC4Y 1BN or Fax 071 254 5619 .
16 When you 've been driving a car , and hirpling about on motorbikes using L plates , as aged car users are allowed to with anything under 125cc or possessing a sidecar , you think you know it all .
17 SPECTOR LS-5605 bass , fireglow , A1 condition , £550 or swap for Musicman Stingray or Warwick .
18 Whether the companies are the private Olympia & York , Heron or Speyhawk the name of the game from now is an orderly disposal of properties .
19 To a family in the Lebanon whose house has been bombed by Israeli jet aircraft or destroyed by a CIA-backed bomb the definition probably does not matter much .
20 CHANDLER custom built superstrat type Soloist , one humbucker , 2 single coils , recessed trem , £850 or swap for Jackson USA .
21 They divide viruses into the ‘ mostly harmless ’ which display messages , ‘ fatal distraction ’ which mean to display messages but accidentally cause loss of data or crash the computer , and ‘ information terrorist ’ which are designed to do harm .
22 So , whichever way we bob and weave , I 'll be able to re-jig the data or reporting structures to come up with a new geographical analysis or responsibility centre , whatever way we want to report . ’
23 Well if you have other applications running the reason is obvious — you are cutting them off in their prime without giving them a chance to save data or clean up any temporary files that they might be using .
24 The latter are not exclusively practical in the sense of always utilizing apparatus , but instead might include tasks such as reading tabular data or looking for number patterns .
25 Ray Davis or Peter Sheppard are sent out with any ‘ go-team ’ involved in an investigation of an aircraft fitted with either a flight data or cockpit voice recorder .
26 Whenever you want to show a trend , analyse large amounts of data or highlight statistical information in a report , then graphs and charts are the ideal means of presentation .
27 We regret that we can not provide data or answer queries on articles or projects that are more than five years old .
28 We regret that we can not provide data or answer queries on projects that are more than five years old .
29 We regret that we can not provide data or answer queries on articles or projects that are more than five years old .
30 We regret that we can not provide data or answer queries on projects that are more than five years old .
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