Example sentences of "[n mass] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fully developed hedgehogs can grow to a length of around 225mm and weigh between a half and one kilo . |
| 2 | & Bar ( r ) , who had been credited with shooting down 11 German aircraft and sharing in the destruction of two more . |
| 3 | Moreover , the advent of low-cost , high-density-storage devices like CD-ROMs may well make substantial data sets available even to those with modest computing power : a CD-ROM , for instance , can hold about 600 megabytes ( i.e. 10&sup6 ; bytes ) , can be reproduced currently for about £1 and read on a device costing about £400 . |
| 4 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 5 | After washing and filtration , the nuclei were stained in propidium iodide solution ( 50 µg/ml ) containing RNAase ( 1 mg/ml ) for 30 minutes at 4°C and analysed in an EPICS CS flowcytometer ( Coulter Corporation ) . |
| 6 | Census data and estimates from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys were used wherever these were available . |
| 7 | They could then be converted back into vector form as polygon data and superimposed on the deterministic results . |
| 8 | Instead , meaning and order is imposed on our lives as our behaviour , experiences , thoughts , feelings , and so on , are transformed into statistical data and interpreted within a scientific framework to which we have no access unless we 've been trained in the technical language of psychology . |
| 9 | Double check with supplier 's data and look at the part itself to confirm the pinouts . |
| 10 | They are well aware of the amount of variation possible in ‘ scientifically produced ’ data and look with a certain scepticism upon laboratory results , especially when they diverge markedly from their own intuition or their expectations based on past knowledge . |
| 11 | Our next drafts eliminated the test data and focused on the conclusions . |
| 12 | ‘ I give them aspirin and hope for the best . |
| 13 | She made herself some tea and took some aspirin and paced about the flat . |
| 14 | David Buckley , 29 , of Speke , Merseyside , was giving a friend a lift when his car clipped the kerb , somersaulted 15ft and smashed through a lamp-post . |
| 15 | Tom Rosenthal , chairman and managing director of Deutsch , warned that a tax on books could raise prices by 20% and lead to the abolition of the Net Book Agreement . |
| 16 | One to look out for — Game Over is a new book by David Sheff , which is just published in the US by Random House at $25 and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal : it is subtitled How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry , Captured Your Dollars , and Enslaved Your Children . |
| 17 | The man is described as 5ft 10in and dressed in a black or navy anorak and dark trousers . |
| 18 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON THE NUMBER OF CAPILLARIES AND MYOFIBROBLASTS AT THE ULCER MARGIN |
| 19 | This over-the-head version weighed only 14 oz and went into a neat little stuff sack . |
| 20 | And yesterday he sat shame-faced in Leicester court as he was fined £225 and banned from the road for three years . |
| 21 | The caravan already has a busy diary for the summer but anyone interested in having it along to a community event , or simply to visit a neighbourhood , should contact their local divisional police headquarters and ask for the crime prevention officer . |
| 22 | They will have to be separated from Koi and goldfish and housed in a separate pond or large tank : if they , too , bear parasites , these will have to be individually removed ( tweezers for anchor worm , cotton buds for fish-lice ) . |
| 23 | Its rich pastures are cropped by semi-wild sheep and fertilised by the prolific bird life . |
| 24 | Jack fired into the air and the dog left off chasing the sheep and ran towards the wood . |
| 25 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 26 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 27 | Typical was the hexagonal tile , painted by Picasso with a bull and inscribed to Cooper , estimated at $6–8,000 and sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) , the lot of eight lithographed greeting cards by Braque , sold for $15,000 ( £8,300 ) ( est. $2,000–3,000 ) , a nine-item lot of small drawings and autographed and inscribed photographs by Picasso , Miró , Braque and Leger , sold for $8,000 ( £4,400 ) ( est. $500–700 ) and a lot of three delicate watercolours by Picasso 's mistress Dora Maar ( est. $600–800 ) bought by Paloma Picasso , the artist 's daughter by his subsequent mistress , Françoise Gilot , for $5,000 ( £2,800 ) . |
| 28 | He was a bright boy with a gift for mathematics , and was sent to Gresham College to study engineering , but soon after the outbreak of war in 1914 joined the Royal Flying Corps and served as a flight-lieutenant in No. 73 Squadron in France . |
| 29 | Weekends would be spent " Specialing " ; taking services in various corps and talking about the work . |
| 30 | Seal foil around fish and bake in a moderate oven for 15–20 mins . |