Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also titled Howard Carter : before Tutankhamun ( British Museum Press , £12.95 p/b £9.95 for visitors to the museum during the period of the exhibition ) , it is an anthology of Howard Carter 's writings illustrated by his own photographs , drawings and paintings . |
| 2 | Earlier this year BICC paid £106million for BRIntec in the US . |
| 3 | We have shown that knowledge of immunohistological reactivity with a panel of six antibodies to tumour markers can predict the primary site of origin correctly in 70% of tumours in men and 58% of tumours in women with specificities ranging from 68% for breast tumours to over 90% for tumours in the gut , lung , prostate , and thyroid . |
| 4 | On Jan. 5 , 1990 , full civilian rule was restored when Rabuka gave up his post as Minister of Home Affairs and returned to barracks as head of the armed forces [ see p. 37189 ] . |
| 5 | During the first half of the year , Aoun 's " war of liberation " against Syria had degenerated into a bloody and pointless battle with the Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia for control of the Christian heartlands . |
| 6 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 7 | The bad-debt provisions are expected to knock £25m off profits for the year ending February . |
| 8 | Under the joint venture between the British Agrochemicals Association and the UK Agricultural Supply Trade Association , farmers will be able to dispose of chemicals at the rate of £20 for disposal of the first 5kg and £2.90 for each kilogram thereafter . |
| 9 | Minister of Finance Abdul Rahman Mahmoud Hamdi , in London on April 18 for talks with United Kingdom Overseas Development Minister Lynda Chalker , appealed for aircraft for use in the Sudanese relief effort ; the UK authorities said that they regarded an airlift as unnecessary but that they would release British equipment and spare parts for the repair of the Sudanese railway system . |
| 10 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 11 | [ 75/25 ] of the amount of Advance Corporation Tax ( ‘ ACT ’ ) which could be utilised against Group taxable profits for accounting periods ending before or on [ date ] as reduced in respect of the profits for the period from completion to [ date ] and to the extent that the dividend reduces the audited consolidated net assets at completion below [ x ] the consideration will be reduced £1 for £1 by the deficiency . |
| 12 | This Convention attempts to harmonise data protection legislation among the signatory states to remove the need for restrictions on the free flow of data between states on the grounds that personal data is not protected . |
| 13 | As Figures 4–6 , above , show , the proportion of deliveries in this category ranged from 1% for items housed in the Main Building and the Annexe , to 3% for material from the Advocates ' Library . |
| 14 | The General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) is a 30-item psychiatric screening instrument which collects data about symptoms in the previous few weeks . |
| 15 | This volume therefore will provide comprehensive data about retirement in the US for researchers . |
| 16 | We are seeking biologists to join the team which prepares data for inclusion in the database . |
| 17 | The aggregation hierarchy has as its root a highly abstract object node which has some similarity to a node in hyper-text terminology comprising a chunk of data for presentation to the user . |
| 18 | As many have found , often only in retrospect , a good deal of thought must be given to the preparation of data for presentation to the machine . |
| 19 | We believe that using the prescribing unit to adjust practice data for factors outside the practice 's control and subsequent comparisons with family health services authority or national averages is unhelpful . |
| 20 | Data files included punched cards ( as data files , not just for input ) ; the computer was dated , overloaded and likely to be replaced by one from a different manufacturer ; there was little real-time access to data ; management information was scarce ; there was little in the way of computerized records for Polytechnic students on non-modular courses , and that little was unintegrated with the modular system ; there were no benefits or access to data for offices besides the registry ; the file structures could no longer cope with the then size of the course ( 1,100 students ) ; and the data structures were arcane ( for example , over-zealous use of bit-packing ) . |
| 21 | Most of these files hold data for use by the program . |
| 22 | A program object which must precede all lists of data for use by the READ statement . |
| 23 | In the fasting state , G17 represented only 23% of the total immunoreactive gastrin in molar terms in the presence of H pylori and this fell to less than 10% after eradication of the infection . |
| 24 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 25 | Saga shares jumped 66p to 293p after news of the approach . |
| 26 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 27 | Local projects to benefit include the Alton Sports and Social Club who will receive £1,000 towards extensions to the Harry Baker pavilion ; Medstead Parish Council , who have been awarded £1,500 towards extensions to the village sports pavilion ; and Old Alresford Cricket Club , who have been given £100 to upgrade windows in their pavilion . |
| 28 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 29 | For example while Denmark had saved 30% and France 25% of energy in the industrial and housing sectors the UK had managed only 17% . |
| 30 | He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting . |