Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whether the companies are the private Olympia & York , Heron or Speyhawk the name of the game from now is an orderly disposal of properties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The system can either access cache data or allow the client 's disk to act as a personal NFS server . |
| 7 | RAF Gate Guards ( Airlife , 203pp , illus , hbk , £19.95 ) by Jim Simpson is a handy guide to all the aircraft that guard the gates of RAF establishments at home and abroad . |
| 8 | It is certainly an aircraft that requires a good sized landing strip as approaches have to be made fairly flat . |
| 9 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 10 | Farnborough 1990 is featured with some interesting in flight cockpit shots of Su-27 and MiG-29 , plus the Russian aircraft that dominated the 1990 show , the Antonov An-225 . |
| 11 | However , the aircraft that caught the Stark was a French Mirage . |
| 12 | The mere act of assembling data on a range of interventions gives greater prominence to the cost effectiveness data than does the reporting of the studies individually . |
| 13 | Backed by a team of British academics and journalists which includes Melissa Benn , daughter of Labour MP Tony Benn , and other leading feminists , Ms will sell at £2.95 and carry no advertising . |
| 14 | The sinker is normally less than 2.70m and resembles a surfboard . |
| 15 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 16 | ‘ The FA has therefore fined Mr Jones £20,000 and imposed a suspension for a period of six months , suspended for three years . |
| 17 | The rule is , use the automatics and you 'll stay well ahead of the aircraft and keep a clear understanding of past , present and future situations . |
| 18 | The pilots were required to complete twenty arrested landings at El Toro both to gain or regain currency in the tailwheel aircraft and to test the aircraft structure for weaknesses . |
| 19 | The Mildenhall aircraft veered away to the left and into a flying club canvas hangar full of light aircraft and churned the lot into kindling . |
| 20 | In four hours of tough talks the Premier persuaded Chancellor Helmut Kohl to back the European Fighter Aircraft and secure the future of the EC 's aerospace industry . |
| 21 | Robertson then attacked another Ju87 from dead ahead , a bullet from the dive-bomber 's forward guns hitting his aircraft and puncturing the main fuel tank in the port wing . |
| 22 | What was needed was a small bomb capable of blowing a hole through the wing of an aircraft and igniting the fuel in the tanks inside . |
| 23 | Cranking the aircraft around in order to spot the rest of the attacking aircraft and determine the damage caused to the target , the Blenheim stayed in the Bremen area for 10 minutes , attracting a great deal of flak and being hit about 20 times . |
| 24 | But their troops were badly trained and inexperienced and rain and fog turned the ground into a quagmire , which prevented the use of their aircraft and impeded the advance of their lorries and tanks . |
| 25 | A soldier who feared flying was fined £600 yesterday for endangering a civil aircraft and disobeying the captain 's orders . |
| 26 | As they finally drove away from the scene , Paddy Mayne was observed to jump out of his jeep , run across to a parked aircraft and place a bomb on the wing . |
| 27 | One thing I did not like about the aircraft was the flap lever which is mounted on the left side of the aircraft and needs a hefty pull to operate . |
| 28 | On the base leg the captain took control of the aircraft and retarded the throttles . |
| 29 | ‘ The next day you are on an aircraft and having a bumpy ride . |
| 30 | From here the route climbs steeply to the summit of Craiggowrie at 2,240ft and follows the undulating ridge south east to Creagan Gorm at 2,403ft . |