Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] found [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. M. Henry , in his classic A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon , puts forward this argument to explain why the birds that have developed as separate species and subspecies are found in the southern , mountainous half of the island . |
| 2 | The required data are found in tables 5.6 and 5.9 : In the above example the experimental value for the standard molar enthalpy of hydrogenation of ethene is – 137 kJ mol-1 . |
| 3 | Most of this required data is found in a dictionary , and over the past few years more paper dictionaries have become available in machine-readable form . |
| 4 | Police issued a warning yesterday after a forged £20 was found in Great Ayton . |
| 5 | Deletions of chromosome 17p are found in 75% of colorectal cancers and are highly correlated with mutation of the remaining p53 gene . |
| 6 | These fish are found in Guatemala and Honduras areas of South America . |
| 7 | These fish are found in the Peru area of South America . |
| 8 | There are instances where black , bronze , and silver-sided bream are found in the same water . |
| 9 | 13% were found to be cognitively impaired . |
| 10 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 11 | Around 2,000 plants worth £200,000 were found on the site at Lower Avenue in Bowers Gifford , near Basildon . |
| 12 | The puffer fish is found in warmer parts of the world both in sea water and fresh water . |
| 13 | The primary site becomes apparent in 20% of patients during their lifetime and 75% are found at necropsy . |
| 14 | The majority of public relations staff are found in London or regional consultancies and within commercial companies . |
| 15 | During a long process of assimilation , the means were found for reinvesting the physical world with spiritual significance . |
| 16 | Drugs with a street value of £1,600 were found in the car and £2,070 worth were discovered in the house . |
| 17 | Patients with stones of any composition , size and number contained in a thin walled gall bladder with a fasting volume greater than 15 ml were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 18 | The bodies of at least 30 people were found in the streets , an army officer said . |
| 19 | Laslett ( 1972 ) has demonstrated unambiguously that three generation or extended households were not the norm in pre-industrial times for the simple reason that comparatively few older people were found in the population before the later part of this century . |
| 20 | One particular station , at Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania , had actually been officially stopped from operating after the control room staff were found to be falling asleep on the job . |
| 21 | A complete media is found in many Palaeozoic fossil insects and in the Ephemeroptera among recent forms . |
| 22 | It is desirable that a means be found of revising the Supplement text to bring it into line with the OED in this respect . |
| 23 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |
| 24 | One of the rarest birds in Europe , a number of sub species are found from northern Europe to south-eastern Asia . |
| 25 | They honour no geographical boundaries and the same species are found in the pools of Africa , Asia , America and Europe . |
| 26 | Between closely related taxa , resource partitioning is found as in the case of squirrels in Gabon , where two of the nine coexisting species are found in special habitats , the other seven being taxonomically rather diverse : four of these are essentially arboreal , the other three ground foragers , and in each group there are differences in size such that food is partitioned by hardness and size . |
| 27 | Dr Vickery 's research may have wider relevance , as similar species are found in Western Europe , North and South America and the Western Pacific islands , allowing dippers to be used as a cheap and easy test of stream acidity . |
| 28 | Most studies of this type have yet to evaluate the efficiency of such species as dispersers rather than visitors or feeders , but in cloud forest of Costa Rica , where three pioneer tree species were found to be visited by six bird species , only three left seeds in a viable condition , the ‘ seed shadows ’ , found by radio-tracking , extending up to 500m from the parent tree . |
| 29 | This species is found in the eastern United States , Texas , Britain , Canada and Australia . |
| 30 | In India and Sri Lanka this species is found in shallow ponds and ditches , with clear and slow-moving water . |