Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is little point , for instance , in turning on an artistic , enlightened medieval king because he also enjoyed slaughtering hundreds of deer in a day 's hunt and daubing the fresh blood on his own face and those of his friends . |
| 2 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 3 | Agree that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide that the Society may require up to 50% of a client 's profit costs all disbursements and VAT to be paid during the process of application for a Remuneration Certificate , in accordance with guidelines to be issued by the Adjudication and Appeals Committee after consultation with the Lord Chancellor . |
| 4 | But there are many more affordable and comfortable holidays in Inghams ' brochures too , with good four-star hotels typically costing £400 to £550 for a week 's half-board holiday out of peak season . |
| 5 | A recent study by Bradford De Long of Harvard University concluded that the presence of a Morgan partner on a company 's board added up to 30% to a share 's value . |
| 6 | In 1979 , the largest holiday operator , Thomsons , charged up to £145 for a week 's high season full board in Majorca — the most popular foreign holiday destination now and then . |
| 7 | Server configurations start at $17,000 — £13,600 — for a uni-processor Sparcserver 10 ( £44,300 for four CPUs ) rising to £118,000 for a Sparcserver 690MP with four processors . |
| 8 | Employers also have to contribute equivalent to 18% of a worker 's salary to the Central Provident Fund ( which provides finance for pension , healthcare , tertiary education and certain approved investments ) and a further 1% levy for employees earning less than S$750 per month to be used by the government 's National Productivity Board to fund skills training . |
| 9 | JOYRIDERS were chased by police at 100mph through a motorway 's contraflow system during the rush hour yesterday . |
| 10 | Specifications for Signal Computing System Architecture are documented in a manual , available licence-free at $125 including a year 's updates . |
| 11 | Indeed in Moralice ( London ) Ltd v ED and F Man [ 1954 ] 2 Lloyds Rep 526 , it was held that where the price is payable by means of a bankers ' commercial credit against the shipping documents , the maxim de minimis has no application as between the seller and the bank . |
| 12 | Semi-thin sections were prepared by means of a Reichert OmU3 Ultramicrotome and stained with toluidine blue : in our experience this technique provides particularly easy to read histological pictures . |
| 13 | It seems that Louis-Napoleon , through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking , overestimated the strength of Bonapartist feeling in France and foolishly decided to attempt the overthrow of the government of Louis-Philippe by means of a coup d'état . |