Example sentences of "[n mass] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passengers boarded another aircraft and finally landed at Faro airport yesterday afternoon , five hours behind schedule . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rotation of the impeller was commenced at 5000 rpm and gradually increased to a maximum of 30000 rpm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tested in isolation with selected data and also run many times . |
| 6 | The presence of Coal Measures and well-developed coaly intervals on the southern margins of the Southern North Sea Basin is known from an examination of available well data and recently acquired seismic data . |
| 7 | The King has disclaimed his love for his offspring and therefore broken the family bond that Cordelia speaks of . |
| 8 | ‘ But you 've comforted many a weary soul , listened to lots of troubled folk and even given one or two the will to live again . |
| 9 | The NME 's resistance to the move was legendary and was reported in The Guardian of May 12 , 1976 , an article by Robin Denselow detailing the fact that the journalists had removed ceiling panels , daubed graffiti and generally run amok . |
| 10 | It was a nice morning and it was good to be able to get out of the barracks and just run ; it became immediately apparent that there were some who were fitter than others , and the Corporals ran at the back encouraging the slow ones . |
| 11 | ERDOGAN KIZILKAYA : aged 23 , on 4 August 1991 he was taken from his home in Kayseri , Central Turkey , to Kayseri Police Headquarters and reportedly interrogated under torture in connection with his alleged membership of the armed organization Devrimci Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) . |
| 12 | Grand cru villages There are seventeen villages in Champagne officially rated at 100% and thus designated grand cru status . |
| 13 | Do n't let the Croaking Gourami 's dull appearance put you off — they are an ideal community fish and often overlooked . |
| 14 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 15 | The mixture was heated for 5 min at 70°C and then allowed to cool slowly to 20°C . |
| 16 | This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population , as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed . |
| 17 | Referral for hearing tests revealed that he had recurrent otitis media and consequently had intermittent hearing loss . |
| 18 | The membrane pellet was then resuspended in buffer B at a concentration of 14mg protein per ml and then subjected to freezing and thawing . |
| 19 | Famed for its gentle , artistic people and elaborately performed ceremonies , the Island of the Gods , Lombok is a mere fifteen minute flight from Bali , but unlike her close sister , this island has been exposed to few tourists . |
| 20 | One thinks of the Moorgate crash in 1975 which killed 42 people and seriously injured 75 ; one thinks of the Goodge Street fire of 1981 and , inevitably , King 's Cross . |
| 21 | I could tell you about the money he has lent to people and never got back . |
| 22 | The facts to be assumed by the House of Lords for the purposes of the appeal were that Shell and others had , in breach of the sanctions order , covertly supplied Southern Rhodesia with oil by other means and thereby prolonged the state of illegal independence and the time during which Lonrho 's pipeline was out of use . |
| 23 | It is possible that this may have been the result of overcommitment of advisory staff and thus arisen from difficulties in attending to this detail . |
| 24 | He tripped on his staff and nearly pitched head first into the water . |
| 25 | In the last two months , Unix International has quietly suffered two bouts of layoffs and fortuitous unreplaced departures that have decimated its staff and effectively shut down much of its offshore operation . |
| 26 | He is a big , genial man of 45 , well liked by the other middle-rank departmental staff and undeniably possessed of excellent craft skills . |
| 27 | He is well liked by the other departmental staff and undeniably possessed of excellent craft skills . |
| 28 | Indeed , the higher a case proceeds in the organization , the more officials rely for their knowledge of ‘ the problem ’ upon a version constructed by field staff and substantially transmitted by the written word ( cf. |
| 29 | Though the final report was dutifully disseminated by the course administration , it was greeted with great scepticism by staff and rapidly forgotten . |
| 30 | Sexual dimorphism will be most developed among strongly polygynous species and least developed among monogamous ones . |