Example sentences of "[n mass] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early eighteenth century , Russian fur-trappers began to work in Svalbard , even overwintering in order to trap Arctic fox and polar bear , and to hunt walrus and seal . |
| 2 | What a start to their reign poll tax up £35 and council rents £2.50 a week . |
| 3 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 4 | With debts rising above £6.5m and spending money to be found for Kevin Keegan 's summer team-building mission , fans are being expected to pay part of the price of the club 's mismanagement . |
| 5 | Burglary at homes has gone up by 23pc and fraud , shoplifting , and car crime are also rising rapidly . |
| 6 | Onto the deck of the good ship Polar Star comes a net of fish , 40 tons of cod and pollock , flatfish and crabs . |
| 7 | It would be cod and ling and maybe haddock , I do n't ken . |
| 8 | Benat Arroyabe , a young chef from San Sebastian , proved a notable exception during the last year by producing food of great elegance and flavour ( witness capiscums filled with fresh cod and parsley sauce ) in the Basque-oriented Guernica restaurant at 21a Foley Street , London W1 ( 01-580 0623 ) . |
| 9 | Mr Hogan would wash his hands in the downstairs cloakroom and always profess pleasure at the lamb chops , the bacon and cabbage , or the plate of cod and parsley sauce on a Friday . |
| 10 | Varieties : pasta , chicken and mushroom , beef and cream sauce , marinated beef and vegetables , cod and parsley sauce , spaghetti bolognese , vegetarian goulash , beef bourguignon , vegetable stew and vegetarian stroganoff . |
| 11 | But the floor was wet and I slid along before colliding with a slab of sprats , cod and ice which showered over me . |
| 12 | But according to a Greenpeace scientist , the amount of cod and capelin taken by the seals is insufficient to account for any significant decline in cod numbers . |
| 13 | She feels that I should take my cod and coalfish , garfish and grayling , salmon and sole and even the shark steaks , and install them in the old deep freeze in the garage . |
| 14 | Very little from Portland rock marks with the exception of Church Ope cove where odd cod and coalfish landed . |
| 15 | The Cod and Lobster Inn at Staithes has been washed away and rebuilt three times — best get in there quickly before the next storm strikes … always a good excuse . |
| 16 | It 's fun ambling among the dripping-wet mountains of cod and mullet ( or rabbits and pheasants during the hunting season ) , but the serious eating goes on elsewhere in town . |
| 17 | The £100,000 project — including a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 18 | The £100,000 project — which has a Scottish Arts Council grant of £20,000 and funding from the Gaelic Television Committee and the National Gaelic Arts Project — is the brainchild of Alisdair MacDonald of the Aberdeen-based Invisible Bouncers Theatre Company and the Gaelic actor and writer Domhnall Ruadh , now infamous nationwide as the anti-hero of Gaelic' first soap opera , Machair . |
| 19 | With 235bhp and 285lb ft of torque , it delivers a top speed of 139mph and 0–60mph acceleration of 8.3secs . |
| 20 | The ammunition drums were loaded with a mixture of incendiary , explosive and tracer rounds , which proved to be a lethal cocktail when used against aircraft and road transport . |
| 21 | Happily , the UK is well supplied with good aeronautical engineers , chiefly as a result of the excellent training schemes of the major aircraft and engine manufacturers . |
| 22 | Casein became a recognized adhesive in aircraft and yacht work some time around 1930 . |
| 23 | I just look at the aircraft and wonder ‘ Is this one going to stay up there ’ . |
| 24 | Among proposals to combat noise pollution are alterations to road surfaces , reductions in aircraft and vehicle noise , controls over burgular and car alarms , better sound insulation in buildings and a " quiet neighbourhood " scheme are proposals to be examined to combat noise pollution . |
| 25 | Equipment is defined by s. 1(3) as including any plant and machinery , vehicle , aircraft and clothing . |
| 26 | The Belfast aircraft and missile plant became a bone of contention between Margaret Thatcher and John Major in 1988 when he was Chief Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 27 | Its aircraft and cruise missiles have pounded installations throughout Iraq and Kuwait by day and by night . |
| 28 | The previously-announced £1 billion cost of rationalising BAe 's heavily-loss-making regional aircraft division led to a £1.2 billion pre-tax loss at the aircraft and defence group in the year to December . |
| 29 | Yes well if we take for example er probably the largest of the packages which we have priced converted to a fixed price basis so far which was package number three , er the tooling for the development aircraft and roll equipment which is erm er forty eight million pounds , that was priced in August nineteen ninety two when eighty percent of that work had been done . |
| 30 | We believe that certainly for the time being , the combination of the fighter aircraft and rapier will provide an acceptable level er of air defence with a much reduced air threat to the U K er which now exists . |