Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] of [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I got one lot of fruit juices and I said to go and get some more and there were six empty on the thing then I chucked them in and then there were another six empty like . |
| 2 | ‘ I know several members of staff at the Versorelli Institute quite well . |
| 3 | I like different kinds of people but I try very hard to be ‘ nice ’ to everybody . |
| 4 | I suppose any number of people could have seen you leave it there . ’ |
| 5 | The spool is once again built up and takes 100 metres of 6lb — I use 150 metres of 4lb . |
| 6 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 7 | ‘ I have fond memories of people being able to talk to Philip . |
| 8 | Because everyone uses one set of data , specifications are consistent , standards are uniform , there will be no inaccuracies caused by recopying , and products can be updated quickly . |
| 9 | Do you want me to open that tin of fruit ? |
| 10 | Brough Park , which last night hosted the final of the 2,000 Guineas , is now preparing for next month 's Northumberland Puppy Cup , which offers prize money of £2,000 for the winner . |
| 11 | According to the joint receiver , Ian Murdoch , of KPMG Peat Marwick , Levack , which made pre-tax profits of £240,000 on turnover of £22 million in 1991 , appears to have been undercapitalised . |
| 12 | But that should be offset by recovery from the bathroom and heating companies which made little-changed profits of £42.6m last year . |
| 13 | Yesterday Johnson Matthey — which announced pre-tax profits of £33.5million — said it ‘ has been authorised by Charter to say that Charter has no present intention of either buying or selling shares in the company . ’ |
| 14 | Yesterday Johnson Matthey — which announced pre-tax profits of £33.5million — said it ‘ has been authorised by Charter to say that Charter has no present intention of either buying or selling shares in the company . ’ |
| 15 | Common Ground is concerned about the decline in old orchards , which grow traditional varieties of fruit , provide habitats for bees , grazing for sheep , geese and pigs and create beautiful landscapes ; their exhibition encourages people to grow their own fruit trees , and plant larger orchards for the community . |
| 16 | There was a twinning arrangement with a local employer which involved one member of staff and a limited number of students . |
| 17 | The Solaris version of Unix uses multitasking , multimedia object management facilities and is able to build true client-server applications , which can be exploited by the Model 116 , which transfers eight bits of data in parallel and also performs byte-to-byte handshaking for increased data integrity . |
| 18 | The vehicle contract hire business , which has net assets of £5.6m , will continue to be operated as separate subsidiary by NWS . |
| 19 | We devote $300m of research and development expenditure exclusively to the systems division , which has annual revenues of $2,360m : that corresponds to an respectable level of 12% . ’ |
| 20 | The courts were re-organized and criminal offences re-classified , reforms which affected large numbers of people , but which had been achieved with a minimum of political controversy . |
| 21 | Lloyds , which declared pre-tax losses of £715,000,000 — the highest in Europe — made provisions covering 85 per cent of its medium- and long-term debt , while National Westminster covered 72 per cent of its total debt . |
| 22 | The administration has expressed satisfaction with the package which includes real cuts of $4.6billion and $6billion in taxes . |
| 23 | Gilroy , for example , has argued against catch-all terms like ‘ Black ’ , ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ Afro-Caribbean ’ which imply homogeneous groups of people whose culture and way of life stands in contrast to some white norm ( Gilroy , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | This attempt is being fully charted with a view to furthering the methodological debate which surrounds this aspect of data production and analysis . |
| 25 | There are , however , a number of reasons why we should be cautious about interpreting the results of tests which use this type of data . |
| 26 | Toshiba , a Sparc RISC win which did some fabricating of Mips chips , is considering developing a 32-bit R3000 variant for use as a portable terminal CPU . |
| 27 | A DISGRUNTLED yellowcoat may have started a holiday camp blaze which put two members of staff in hospital yesterday . |
| 28 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | So far the product is on sale in 2,000 of the chain 's 5,000 US outlets ( which had total sales of $3.2 billion last year ) . |
| 30 | This is the latest in a series of conflicts over the Baltic environment , including an escape of effluent from the chemicals complex on the river Dvina which poisoned large numbers of fish . |