Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A balance can be achieved by exposing the eggs for a moderate time ; for example , a 4 h in vivo exposure accumulates analysable metaphases in 50 80% of embryos at the early morula to early blastocyst stage . |
| 2 | It is remarkable that the river Alde immediately south of Aldeburgh is separated from the sea by only about 50 m of shingle at the narrowest part of the spit , which causes a 17 km ( 11 miles ) deflection of the river . |
| 3 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 4 | A rectangular plaque from the Phaistos temple shows , in relief , four animal-headed figures in long robes with tasselled belts ; it was originally fixed to a curving surface , probably of wood , by means of nails at the four corners ( Figure 49 ) . |
| 5 | Finally , if you have a spacious back garden , but less than 2.4m of space at the side , you could consider building a detached garage down the garden , and extending your drive down the side of the house to reach it . |
| 6 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 7 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
| 8 | The consequence is that the nonsensical at the bottom disappears as utterly as the sense in works of art at the top . |
| 9 | In the flyer produced by Oxford University Press , Peter Fusco , Curator of European Sculpture and Works of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum , writes that the catalogue is ‘ a work which every art library and student of sculpture will need to own ’ . |
| 10 | In 1911 the German painter Elizabeth Epstein , a friend of the Delaunays , drew the attention of Kandinsky to the works of Delaunay at the Salon des Indépendants , and later in the year Kandinsky wrote inviting Delaunay to join in the first exhibition of the reconstituted Neue Künstlervereinigung , now known as the Blaue Reiter , which was held in December at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich . |
| 11 | Borrowings largely relate to NGC , which had £80m of debt at the time of takeover and which finances its rapid growth from cash flow . |
| 12 | THE widow of Muppet creator Jim Henson made the volatile Miss Piggy look like a pussycat when she ran into a pair of puppets at the centre of a legal battle , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 13 | The country as well as Mr Major are very fortunate to have such a safe pair of hands at the Foreign Office at a time when the vital question of Britain 's future within the European Union is still being determined . |
| 14 | This year 38pc of students at the college 's six ‘ partner ’ high schools in Birkenhead have elected to continue their education at the college . |
| 15 | 40% of pupils at the school are muslim . |
| 16 | The U.S. Open Champion is one of seven golfers who earned in excess of $1 million in the 12 months leading up to the World Series of Golf at the end of August . |
| 17 | A series of improvements at the site in Barcelona have resulted in the annual rate of three day lost time accidents being reduced by a third . |
| 18 | Instead , we prepared with a series of games at the local level here in B.C. ’ . |
| 19 | BELGIUM is pressing ahead with plans to generate half its electricity from nuclear power by 1985 , despite a series of mishaps at the country 's biggest concentration of nuclear power at Doel , near Antwerp . |
| 20 | Initial flight of the prototype Iris ( N185 ) took place on June 19 , 1926 , this being followed throughout the summer by a series of trials at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment ( MAEE ) , Felixstowe . |
| 21 | Oliver Duddy stopped his man Noel Higgins of Glasnevin during a series of trials at the National Stadium last night . |
| 22 | Conservationists have levelled a series of criticisms at the basic ground rules of these cost-benefit studies . |
| 23 | In addition , there will be a series of screenings at the Ikon Gallery of new experimental work , followed by discussions with some of the filmmakers . |
| 24 | From the beginning of 1791 the London committee held a series of meetings at the Blenheim coffee house which led to the foundation of the Veterinary College on 8 April . |
| 25 | In 1843 , in a series of lectures at the Orthopaedic Institution ( published in 1855 as Lectures on the Deformities of the Human Frame ) he described what became known as ‘ Little 's disease ’ , a spastic paralysis of both lower limbs secondary to infantile cerebral palsy . |
| 26 | In November of 1954 , Williams began a series of lectures at the Public Library , and while the theme of these lectures was by now a familiar one to his audiences ( education in the West Indies ) , the public debate that ensued between Williams and the Reverend Dom . |
| 27 | During the summer of 1967 , Hugo Rune gave a series of lectures at The Rondo Hatton Memorial Hall in Brentford , West London . |
| 28 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 29 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 30 | A council investigation uncovered a series of defects at the Dolphin Centre including weaknesses in the internal and external walls and distortion of aluminium panels in the pitched roof . |