Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This category gives the pupils even greater control over the learning process by allowing the input data and manipulate it in various ways . |
| 2 | Otherwise a data collection exercise is necessary to capture the data and store it in the database . |
| 3 | The information comes from selecting data and presenting it in such a way that it is meaningful and useful to the user . |
| 4 | I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment . |
| 5 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 6 | The child held out a cloth , and took the fowl and wrapped it in the napkin , and handed the package back to Davide . |
| 7 | I removed this fish and put it in a quarantine tank and I treated both the Damsel and the fish in the main tank with Cuprazin . |
| 8 | If you have been unable to detect the early symptoms and the disease has progressed ( very common with ponds where fish can easily hide or where water clarity is poor ) you will have to catch all the affected fish and treat them in a salt bath . |
| 9 | Two alternatives are possible , either to sell the machine now for £4,200 or use it in a new project that is currently under evaluation . |
| 10 | ANEW study of the poet of Xanadu and The Ancient Mariner has won the Whitbread Biography of the Year prize , earning its author £1,750 and leaving him in the field for the Book of the Year £20,250 prize , to be announced on January 24 . |
| 11 | If you need to teach people or compel them in some other way to repress their natural demand for acknowledgement as rational , competent , authoritative human beings then you have no answer to the charge of some malefaction between bad faith and dreadful wickedness . |
| 12 | I hate these people that catch you in the street ! |
| 13 | ‘ In despair , Rol asked them what he could do for his people except lead them in the killing of others in the land . |
| 14 | In an interview contemporary with the novel , Brooke-Rose explains that ‘ Amalgamemnon is in fact about the violence which we all commit when we 're always trying to amalgamate people and put them in a category ’ ( 1984b ) , but the novel also turns this strategy back on itself and uses ‘ amalgamation ’ to shatter categories . |
| 15 | Structured dependence is associated with a particular stage in the capitalist mode of production , and imposed by a paternalistic state through universalist social security provision that both protects older people and keeps them in poverty . |
| 16 | ‘ We are trying to educate young people and point them in the right direction and I do n't think we are fulfilling our duty very well when we have a rule like this . ’ |
| 17 | As parents , teachers , and librarians , we wish to encourage young people and to support them in their search for understanding , expression , and confidence . |
| 18 | Very similar to BOGIES used to chastise children , hobyahs kidnapped people and imprisoned them in caves , where they had to mine for fairy gold before they were eaten for their pains . |
| 19 | It is BP 's policy to employ suitably qualified disabled people and to help them in overcoming their handicaps at work . |
| 20 | I 've spotted it in lots of people and suspected it in most others . |
| 21 | Such a response involves sharing information with staff and involving them in decisions , some of which have budgetary implications . |
| 22 | I removed the Lionfish and put him in a quarantine tank , but he died . |
| 23 | As well as good documentation and ‘ driving ’ information for the user , as described on page 35 , it is also very important to document the computer program as a further aid to those who wish to understand how the program works or modify it in some way . |
| 24 | Recent field studies of the extant great apes by Wrangham , MacKinnon , and Dian Fossey allow us to formulate new models of the relations between social organization and ecology of these species and to present them in terms of the reproductive and social strategies of individuals . |
| 25 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 26 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |