Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stronger , less compromising , position is that it is enough to have a problem , possibly due to lack of data or thrown up by another 's findings , and plausible ways of solving it . |
| 4 | The same console will enable the teacher to retrieve data or generate more meaningful reports almost instantaneously . |
| 5 | The purpose of this wing was to test aircraft that came out after a form of garage servicing ; this was before the garage system introduced by Bennett in the earlier days of Pathfinding at RAF Wyton . |
| 6 | The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ . |
| 7 | Written by one who is obviously in love with gliding , the author takes the reader through the history of gliding in Australia , from kites in the early 1900s to the high performance aircraft that abound today . |
| 8 | Just as missiles can be guided from aircraft that did not launch them , so jamming can be done by someone else on the bomber 's behalf ; division of labour pays off in battles , too . |
| 9 | We 're all taught when learning to fly that we should initiate turns using a little rudder , often in aircraft that do n't really need it . |
| 10 | Harry laughed about this , saying that childbirth was like shelling peas to a woman , and that he 's be better off at sea after the mackerel than moping about at home and getting in the way of the womenfolk . |
| 11 | It is better to report that you had insufficient time to collect certain data than to produce half baked results . |
| 12 | But logs have a vital role to play in data analysis , providing one of the most useful ways of re-expressing data that straggles upwards . |
| 13 | Another aspect of the data that has not been adequately explained is known as odd-even staggering . |
| 14 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 15 | Thus to bar from the courts data that have not appeared in a peer reviewed journal could be foolhardy . |
| 16 | Moreover , there is a danger than data that presented very little pattern originally can be smoothed into an artefactually interesting story ; exercise 9.4 has been designed to enable you to explore this point . |
| 17 | How much to put in depends on the population of fish , including other species , for you can not prevent roach , perch , tench and carp etc. , from feeding on your offerings . |
| 18 | The non-turbo is expected to put out about 250bhp and to cost closer to £30,000 . |
| 19 | Priced at about £20,000 and aimed mainly at the American market , the expedition promises not only the now commonplace deluxe basecamp and satellite telephone links , but a 24-hours service , complete with VDE , providing constant information about share price movements on Wall Street . |
| 20 | On hearing the Cherokee 's electric fuel pump still operating the instructor asked the Cherokee pilot to return to his aircraft and turn off the fuel cock and battery master switch . |
| 21 | The pilot dipped the nose of the aircraft and dropped down behind the van , close enough to be able to read its registration number : only a delivery van from the nearby town . |
| 22 | The United States , Britain and France are preparing a strongly worded warning to Iraq to ground its aircraft and pull back anti-aircraft missile batteries that have been moved to the north , where allied patrol aircraft protect the Kurds . |
| 23 | In November 1985 North shipped out of America two Boeing 707-loads of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles , ostensibly for Israel although by now the pretence was wearing thin and they were simply transferred to Israeli cargo aircraft and flown straight on to Iran . |
| 24 | Woolley levelled off two hundred feet from the burning aircraft and flew parallel . |
| 25 | The US-led Coalition poured in troops and aircraft and carved out an area where , so the theory went , the Kurds could find respite from Saddam 's savagery . |
| 26 | THE former Soviet Union 's Aeroflot is by far the world 's largest airline-it has up to 1,500 aircraft and provides about a tenth of all air travel . |
| 27 | I invite the student of the air war to compute Harris 's achievements with 1,625 aircraft and consider how much sooner we could have achieved victory in Europe had he the support of the promised 3,500 aircraft , and the entire Chiefs-of-Staff Committee . |
| 28 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 29 | Six armed and bombed-up B–17s took off at 1140hrs and flew southwards to seek the enemy , unfortunately they went in the wrong direction . |
| 30 | Once again I admire my dummy heron and think how realistic he is and what a great job he does scaring other herons away . |