Example sentences of "the [n mass] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 2 | The grouse were to be a special feature on the menu . |
| 3 | Only the graffiti was of the present , but even that had its roots in ancient hatreds . |
| 4 | From the other side of Portman Square I heard a police siren , which meant that the cavalry was on its way but with the traffic plugged solid it would take them a while . |
| 5 | On 30 May the king announced that the militia was to be mobilised and might — an important innovation — be required to serve where ‘ occasion shall require ’ , i.e. if necessary outside their own counties . |
| 6 | The rhino is in great danger because they 're so far apart , they do n't getthe chance to come together and breed |
| 7 | At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide . |
| 8 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 9 | The fry are at 2″ , almost full colour replicas of their father . |
| 10 | The fry are on the small side , so they , too , are well camouflaged . |
| 11 | Although the yolk sac will still be evident , there will not be a great deal of nutritious value left in it , as they will have been used up while the fry were in the pit developing . |
| 12 | But I suppose it would mainly worthwhile concentrating on English , because that 's where most of the data 's from . |
| 13 | And now that all the data is on the database , if I want to get that information back it is not a problem . ’ |
| 14 | The most satisfactory fit to the data is for the hybrid model with CDM and three neutrino species , two massless and one massive ( HDM ) . |
| 15 | However it is possible in some cases to obtain a broad indication for 1985 of the contrast between firms with over 1000 and those with less than 100 employees although the data is for manufacturing industry rather than all employees . |
| 16 | It is necessarily of the same quality as the data used to support managerial control , because it is that data , used for a different purpose ; and because the data is of a type already in currency , its use needs no special explanation or defence . |
| 17 | The computer programme used in the preparation of the data is to be SCSS , the interactive version of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences ( SPSS ) . |
| 18 | Select the option again if the data is to be changed and modify the appropriate fields , before pressing RETURN . |
| 19 | These factors alone could make the book most valuable but the data is by no means complete , and as such could be misleading by its omission . |
| 20 | The question as to whether a specific hypothesis is confirmed or not confirmed by the data is in principle different from the issue of whether the research findings can be generalized to a wider population . |
| 21 | All the data is in character format and , since the files will not be read by other versions of BASIC , no extra control characters have been added . |
| 22 | This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them . |
| 23 | The data are to be collected at the Patent Office in London . |
| 24 | The database itself is structured according to the uses to which the data are to be put ( Section 2.4 ) . |
| 25 | However , the conclusions drawn from the data are of some concern . |
| 26 | Much of these data , however , are also suitable for hypothesis-testing — indeed the data are of higher quality than those generally used in research studies because it is not usually practicable to ask academics from a wide range of areas to adopt uniform teaching , assessment and reporting practices solely to permit educational research to occur . |
| 27 | ( iv ) The data were to be taken from source documents , thus avoiding transcription and the possible errors associated with that task . |
| 28 | to the extent that such adjustments could be made if the data were to be used in an accountants ' short form report , the guidance in the CFM on the procedures to adopt for short form reporting should be followed . |
| 29 | The data were off loaded to a computer ( Amstrad PC1640 , IBM-compatible ) and processed using the Esophagram software ( Gastrosoft Ltd , USA ) . |
| 30 | The data was for five-minute intervals on 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 . |