Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [noun] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 7 Baker and Shevardnadze confirmed that the " loose ends " concerning the number of combat aircraft and helicopters had been " tied up " , although neither gave details . |
| 2 | A major user of NASA data and skills has been the UN Environment Programme . |
| 3 | CANNON and Ball have been lined up as the latest Christmas cracker for North-East pantomime fans . |
| 4 | Sheep and cattle rearing is a feature of the hills and moorland areas of Scotland , Wales , and northern and southwest England . |
| 5 | Ostensibly asexual lineages of fish and salamanders have been shown by analysis of their mitochondrial DNA to be of some antiquity ( 4–5 million and 100,000 years , respectively ) . |
| 6 | Deaths of trout and salmon have been connected with acid input to streams in spring and autumn . |
| 7 | Two of the different angles of bend that are available : 90° and 135° shown is an offset elbow |
| 8 | A variety of media and substrata have been used but these will not be reviewed here because most experiments involve straightforward tissue or organ culture techniques which are well described elsewhere ( e.g. ref. 11 ) . |
| 9 | Today is the European Day for disabled people and campaigners have been demanding improved facilities in city centres . |
| 10 | It has also shown that these groups of people and institutions have been involved in widespread breaches of the law . |
| 11 | They need far more people and morale has been low . |
| 12 | Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies . |
| 13 | Cooperation between their staff and students has been extremely effective in providing a critical mass for generating ideas and implementing new teaching methods . |
| 14 | For example , one partner facilitated the removal of carpet tiles so that our staff and parents have been able to carpet most of the school . |
| 15 | for instance , could staff and equipment have been used more effectively ? |
| 16 | Staff and residents have been praising her bravery in trying to stop the thief . |
| 17 | The famous TV-am sofa is to go to the Museum Of The Moving Image on London 's South Bank , but staff and contributors have been invited to put in sealed bids for everything else . |
| 18 | Crowds milled around , about one third of all University staff and employees had been invited to the buffet luncheon . |
| 19 | And today staff and patients have been talking about their victory over the health service bureaucrats : |
| 20 | Several important works or environments have been recreated . |
| 21 | A has been paid wages of £12,000 and B has been paid £6,000 in wages . |
| 22 | Previously , items such as tea , coffee , cocoa , sugar , jam , canned fruit , salmon and sardines had been sold from the same counters as their perishable equivalents . |
| 23 | FEARS that a power-generating barrage across the Mersey could seriously damage the estuary 's international status as a wintering home for wildfowl and waders have been partly eased by preliminary studies of bird habits . |
| 24 | Thanks to the Kantian Schopenhauerian critique of Socratism , an infinitely more profound view of ethics and art has been developed , which amounts to a conceptualized form of Dionysiac wisdom . |
| 25 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 26 | I have a look in the gutter to see if any fruit or stuff has been chucked away . |
| 27 | Thus what began as a specific and separate set of issues involving such matters as landscape change , pesticide use , urban and industrial development , resource depletion , recreational demand and the preservation of rare flora and fauna have been linked together in a much more comprehensive debate about environmental matters . |
| 28 | At the moment , shippers ' only guarantee that their fruit and vegetables have been grown organically , without the use of any chemical fertilisers , fungicides or pesticides , is to buy those packaged with The Soil Association 's organic mark of approval . |
| 29 | The ingredients in these pies are of similar high quality but the fruit and seasonings have been changed . |
| 30 | Interest charges fell from £2.5 million to under £500,0000 and gearing has been held at 29 per cent . |