Example sentences of "[be] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ties are made by a company called Valenti and are 100pc silk . |
| 2 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 3 | Erm well two of them are cod liver oil . |
| 4 | Charges are 3% initial and 0.5% annual ; minimum investment is $2,000 . |
| 5 | Charges are 3% initial and 1% annual . |
| 6 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp 's MS-DOS 6 , which will be available on Wednesday , will be offered at $50 for the first 60 days , and $130 thereafter , the company said : the two most compelling new features , the company says , are data compression to double hard disk space , and improved memory management ; it also includes the capability to back up files , protect against viruses and reorganize files on the hard disk — the back-up technology was licensed from Symantec Corp 's Peter Norton group , and the anti-viral technology from Central Point Software Inc — but unlike Symantec 's Norton Back-Up , the back-up feature in MS-DOS 6 is n't automatic and does n't support tape drives , and is also slower — and about 300 new viruses have been discovered since Central Point 's virus detection technology was frozen in MS-DOS 6 code ; both companies hope to sell enhancements to the built-in products to users . |
| 8 | The terms are 225p cash a share — 20 times brokers ' 1992 earnings forecasts — but five of Worcester 's top managers , including chairman Cecil Duckworth , are exchanging most of their holdings for a 32 p.c. stake in the new Bosch subsidiary that will own the business . |
| 9 | Other species which may occur are Alchemilla alpina and Salix herbacea . |
| 10 | The sockets are 16mm diameter , and the eight outer ones are 8mm from the groove . |
| 11 | Any-way in September 1990 I decided to further my career in Horticulture and started a college course full time at Houghall College , County Durham , which meant having to live on a Educational-grant My expenses weekly are £29 rent , bus fares to college £25 , HP £10 , electric £5 total £69 weekly this is without food . |
| 12 | Founder members not already mentioned are 3M Co , Active Voice Corp , Advanced Technology Laboratories Inc , Banyan Systems Inc , BBN Software Products Inc , ComputerLand Corp , Compuware Inc , Digital Communications Associates Inc , Dun & Bradstreet Software Inc , Maxtor Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Silicon Graphics Inc , Sybase Inc and something called WSIPC . |
| 13 | For parcels to Jersey , the maximum weight is 10kg whilst the maximum dimensions are 1.07m length and 2.0m length and girth combined . |
| 14 | Charges are 4% initial and 1% annual . |
| 15 | The best-fit values for parameters are given in Table 1 ; the uncertainties are 68% confidence , if all the other parameters are allowed to vary . |
| 16 | The National Association of Probation Officers went into Long Lartin in Worcestershire to interview and examine the personal files of men who insist they 're innocent.Anne Nankivell reports . |
| 17 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 18 | The two leading concepts in the analysis of animal societies are kin selection ( Hamilton 1964 ) and evolutionary game theory ( Maynard Smith & price 1973 ) . |
| 19 | In sections 6.2 and 6.3 , these two approaches are considered.in turn . |
| 20 | Hardware requirements to run the shrink-wrapped Unix are 8Mb RAM , 200Mb disk and a tape streamer — prices for the system software start at £1,000 . |
| 21 | But however plausible the concept of stylistic embellishment appears , even in a favourable case like this there are difficulties.The elaboration of form inevitably brings an elaboration of meaning . |
| 22 | Butter , margarine and oil are obviously high in fat — in fact they are 99% fat . |
| 23 | I am 5ft mumble-mumble . |
| 24 | Regulars expected to be in the thick of things are 500cc Champion Robbie Fuller , Shaun Nichols , Neil Scopes and Adrian Mower , all from Woodbridge MCC . |
| 25 | Minimum investment is £1,000 ; charges are 5% initial and 1 ¼ % annual . |
| 26 | Minimum investment is £5,000 and the charges are 5% initial and 1.25% annual . |
| 27 | Charges are 5% initial and 1% annual . |
| 28 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 29 | Targets already announced for the year are 4705m capex , and savings of $150m , which will include job cuts and savings across the board . |
| 30 | There will thus have been £1M worth of relevant income . |