Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being allocated the entire dark continent as a sales territory for one man is a bit like being asked to cut the grass at Hampden Park single-handedly with a pair of nail scissors . |
| 2 | As cellarer to the abbey it was Brother Oudart 's responsibility to manage these estates together with a staff of some 130 women and 20 men . |
| 3 | This project will investigate all 74 cases together with a series of long term detention case under the 1964 Act . |
| 4 | We stop seeing prayer merely as a means of asking for things from God — important though that is . |
| 5 | For all his doubts and self-irony , Palomar still wants to penetrate the secrets of the world and , to this end , what is seen acts only as a means of activating the thoughtfulness of language . |
| 6 | Duke wrestled with the torrential whitewater , spinning his Papa nui — a sixteen-foot , hundred-and-fourteen-pound semi-hollow Tom Blake board — upside down in an Eskimo roll to let the broken waves pass over him . |
| 7 | Were his words intended to fire her imagination with racy images of the two of them burning up calories together between a pair of scented sheets ? |
| 8 | A roving exhibition is planned for the future along with a series of talks to schools and other groups by the council 's dog warden . |
| 9 | can be obtained from thebaine only by a series of elaborate and inefficient chemical processes . |
| 10 | We arrive at the club only after a series of sluggish and difficult turns around compact city streets . |
| 11 | P&R are planning a big push on Rockman gear together with a series of demonstrations and workshops featuring guitarist Jim Barrow . |
| 12 | There were ways of treating prisoners properly , and of recognising that they had certain claims upon their captors ; there were also rules about the taking , sharing , and disposing of booty and pillage ; there were signs of formal war , such as the unfurling of banners or the setting off of a cannon at the start of a siege , which informed all those present that a certain legal situation now existed , hostilities having been formally declared . |
| 13 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |
| 14 | This latter recommendation is tied up with the setting up of a Media Enterprise Board which would provide funding — funding derived from an advertising levy — for all newly established media . |
| 15 | BAT Industries ' Brian Hutchinson went to the top of the class to mark the topping out of a £400,000 sports hall at Middlesbrough 's City Technology College . |
| 16 | Typical operations on data : put data into a data structure take data out of a data structure ask questions about the data in a data structure |
| 17 | Teaching which gives primacy to form and uses words simply as a means of exemplification actually denies the nature of grammar as a construct for the mediation of meaning . |
| 18 | Since there is only one opening the base has a simple podium on each side instead of a series of pedestals . |
| 19 | It views writing essays not as a series of isolated events but as the dynamic process of developing a skill . |
| 20 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 21 | CADBURY Schweppes is building up its presence in the Spanish and Portuguese soft drinks markets with the £45.3m acquisition of several brands together with a fruit plant and bottling plant , writes Terry Wilkinson . |
| 22 | The linking together of a series of sounds . |
| 23 | L–1049H N6937C Save-a-Connie and L–749/VC–12N N494TW , the latter in a highly-polished natural metal Military Air Transport Service ( MATS ) scheme , thundered around the Oshkosh circuit together in a series of low level flypasts , filling the air with the sound of radial engines . |
| 24 | Practise opening more airbrake during the hold off as a means of getting the glider down fully held off , but without such a long float . |
| 25 | For instance , a buzzer will sound , followed one second later by a series of flashes of light , which the subject has to turn off by pressing a button . |
| 26 | I 've written two articles now in a series that 's supposed to be practical and is intended to get you knitting on your ribber and we 've not yet knitted a single row . |
| 27 | From Pip being infatuated with Estella and this causing him to turn against his upbringing and background though she harbours no feelings of this sort for him due to her upbringing by Miss Havisham solely as a means to break the heart of men as Compeyson once did to her . |
| 28 | The next strongest performance has been by Giorgio de Chirico , up 690% at an average price of £55,000 even after a 25% fall last year . |
| 29 | The concession , near or complete , is denied in the statement ‘ we do not see the co-opted directors primarily as a means of resolving deadlock ’ . |
| 30 | On the other hand , a stock of components can avoid the frustration of being held up on a project because a mundane integrated circuit is temporarily unavailable , or because you have managed to break one lead away from a 100m capacitor . |