Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the EC offered in August 1990 to abolish all support for projects involving aircraft of under 100 seats , and to reduce all other development aid by one-third , the US government threatened in mid-1991 to take the issue to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 2 | The build-up of the Binbrook Canberra Wing in 1951 meant that Bomber Command had entered the jet age ; the Lincolns and Washingtons were being replaced by an aircraft of very different character and performance . |
| 3 | Bleeding from colonic varices is a rare clinical problem but may account for up to 25% of bleeding ectopic varices , particularly in cirrhotic patients . |
| 4 | ‘ However , with the most recent figures showing less than 40pc of even full-term infants being breast-fed at six weeks , human milk is the standard that milk-manufacturers need to aim at . ’ |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the attractiveness of the United Kingdom as a location for telecommunications headquarters of internationally mobile companies . |
| 6 | If two mountain sheep of markedly different size meet each other , the smaller one will behave as a subordinate and retreat . |
| 7 | Soon thereafter , Time magazine told its readers that the Milwaukee Project ‘ offers persuasive evidence that mental retardation in the offspring of mentally retarded mothers can be prevented ’ . |
| 8 | Since 84% of apparently localised cancers of the prostate progress if left untreated some centres advocate radical prostatectomy for early cancer . |
| 9 | The army plan envisages a corps of about 150,000 US troops remaining in Europe . |
| 10 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , each season fish of much greater size are caught and the monsters that made St John 's famous are still there , waiting for your well-presented cast . |
| 12 | Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size . |
| 13 | First it is intended to examine the statistics of how young people from different ethnic groups are dealt with by the police and the courts in a city outside London . |
| 14 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 15 | Much is heard and read in the media of essentially anecdotal evidence about the apparent interdependence of markets and the existence of a global securities market . |
| 16 | The mass media and particularly television can create the aura of charisma around people of otherwise unexceptional personality . |
| 17 | It is the least satisfactory feature of collegiate universities that for all social and administrative purposes — meals and meetings and life in Common Room — the academics minx not with those who share their intellectual preoccupations but with people of completely different disciplines . |
| 18 | Even among the Europeans mass intercontinental migration was confined to the people of relatively few countries , in this period overwhelmingly to the British , the Irish and the Germans , and , from the 1860s on , the Norwegians and Swedes — the Danes never emigrated to the same extent — whose small numbers conceal the enormous relative size of their demographic drain . |
| 19 | Occasionally we hear of people of very advanced years who appear and act as if they were in their prime , both mentally and physically . |
| 20 | The CRE organised a series of three seminars in order to bring together people of very different points of view and evolve a broad consensus on some of the large issues raised by the Rushdie affair . |
| 21 | Part of him wanted to take lessons from people of more decided character . |
| 22 | Although the inland wonders of the North American continent were well known to hunters and fishermen , it was the railroad which brought areas of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada within reach of people of more moderate means . |
| 23 | In other words they usually , ‘ dance classically from their feet to the waist and above that are free to express themselves as people of more definite behaviour , work , play and age ’ ( de Valois in a lecture to teachers , 1947 ) . |
| 24 | That surely has been testified to today when the very convenor of the panel on doctrine admits that he does n't want the statements to be too clear so that they can be understood and used by people of radically different persuasions . |
| 25 | Montenegro , which had partially maintained its independence for many centuries , was another added area of people of mainly Serbian characteristics . |
| 26 | No one was at fault ; it was simply the result of putting together two people of totally different conditioning . |
| 27 | Of course , not all the information written on Interview schedules will be by means of completely pre-determined answer categories . |
| 28 | Advertising aims to attract attention and subsequent purchases by means of persuasively communicating product information via the media ( the press , radio and television , direct mail and outdoor posters ) . |
| 29 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 30 | With the minor forms so far described it is possible to investigate causes by means of almost full-sized experiments , but the formation of dunes proper involves the usual sort of inferential argument based on field observation commonly employed by geomorphologists . |