Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 2 | He received no part of the purported consideration of £24,500 nor any benefit therefrom save that £1,800 or thereabouts had been expended in discharging his liability under the local authority mortgage . |
| 3 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 4 | The new electronic models fall into 100 , 200 or 300 watts for all sizes groups , where aquaria up to 24″ × 12″ × 12″ or 60 × 30 × 30cm or near require a 100 watt electronic heaterstat , 36″ or 90cm aquaria need 200 watts and larger tanks need 300 watts or better still , two separate 200 watt models . |
| 5 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 6 | Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car . |
| 7 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 8 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 9 | This is a type of aircraft that really reminds you what your feet are for . |
| 10 | Since the GCBS waybill lacks the spaces for the data that usually accompanies combined or multi-modal transport , it is suitable only for port to port and through transport . |
| 11 | These include geochemical data that now cover the whole of the North Sea . |
| 12 | Parachutes do not fall within the definition of aircraft and neither do hovercraft so they , too , are excluded . |
| 13 | Her husband grunted but Valerie Stevens then skilfully changed the subject , asking Rachel questions about the factory and the Coachliner aircraft and finally bringing the conversation round to the group from Conway House . |
| 14 | The passengers boarded another aircraft and finally landed at Faro airport yesterday afternoon , five hours behind schedule . |
| 15 | Well in in general er the original work plan had divided up the production work to share out the technology and this meant that components were being shipped around more than actually they they needed to be or that was economic and it was found that there was the potential to concentrate manufacturers sub-assemblies for each of the major components of the aircraft and subsequently assemble the major components in one country rather than several . |
| 16 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 17 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 18 | Two er requirements for the future that er seem to be er er desirable are stealth and what could be stealthier than the present generation of aircraft and secondly to prevent you having to go over your target you 're likely to be shot down so that you need a stand up weapon capability , er if the payload is somewhat limited can it still carry stand off weapons that are effective ? |
| 19 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 20 | Bob Hoover 's well-known P-51D Mustang Old Yeller had a reserve of $1m and only reached $500,000 in the bidding . |
| 21 | Those who believe Gerstner is a good choice for IBM point to his skill at cutting corporate expenses and willingness to pare payrolls , implying that IBM is a good but bloated company and conveniently forgetting that Akers cut IBM 's payroll by 25% and still ended up with unacceptable results . |
| 22 | The trouble is that the newer pilots , and many of the older ones , cruise their engines at too high an rpm and often leave their mixture rich during an entire flight … |
| 23 | Rotation of the impeller was commenced at 5000 rpm and gradually increased to a maximum of 30000 rpm . |
| 24 | So , if you want to reduce your airspeed from 120 mph/kts to 100 mph/kts , you will reduce your power by 400 rpm and gradually raise the nose of the aircraft to achieve an attitude change of 1 bar up . |
| 25 | When Rc is in left hand half of dial , it is sometimes easier to note the number of degrees Rc is left of 0° and then subtract that number of degrees from your HDG. 9 . |
| 26 | Attitudes could be elicited aplenty and could , contra the views of many of the early survey researchers who thought them unlikely material for social research in being basically subjective opinions , provide valuable data if suitably measured . |
| 27 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 28 | Sections of ethanol fixed tissue were prefixed in periodate lysine ( 2% ) paraformaldehyde for 10 minutes at 4°C and briefly washed in isotonic phosphate buffered saline ( pH 7.5 ) before use . |
| 29 | So funct the functional form test will see erm will tell us whether we ought to possibly log the data or whether we ought to unlog the data and just do a regression in er er in absolute levels as opposed to logs . |
| 30 | Tested in isolation with selected data and also run many times . |