Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 2 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 3 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 4 | Rotation of the impeller was commenced at 5000 rpm and gradually increased to a maximum of 30000 rpm . |
| 5 | Such a debate over localization reflects the conflicting evidence from human data but now translated into a cellular language . |
| 6 | Exxon also agreed to make a further payment of up to $100,000,000 if further damage from the oil slick was discovered in the five years after this period ( 2002-2006 ) . |
| 7 | Equity Capital is available in amounts from £100,000 and normally consists of a mix of preference share capital and ordinary equity . |
| 8 | The employee 's contribution is therefore £1,284.40 and roughly equates to the sum of the Class 2 and Class 4 contributions paid by a self employed person on the same income . |
| 9 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 10 | And er therefore er w we made the most of it , my chum and I , Sid , we were in nineteen thirty two I would think we would be o one of the first hundred people or so to go with a , a week 's f er tour to Paris by air . |
| 11 | Today we launch our campaign , as the Community Care Act causes more elderly people than ever to rely on the six million people who care for relatives at home . |
| 12 | I set her down on her usual perch and slowly walked in a straight line to the far perch , some ninety feet away . |
| 13 | ‘ All seated stadia will put the game beyond many people and inevitably lead to a back door ban on away fans as capacities are drastically reduced . ’ |
| 14 | Instead of the eight grand pay-out we had all expected , what we got was seventy quid and nowhere to shelter from the rain . |
| 15 | In the same counties , with the addition of Cornwall and Rutland , the median for eighty-five esquires was about £60 compared with £80 from 124 feodary surveys ; several men were worth upwards of £200 and clearly correspond with the first group of gentlemen in the table . |
| 16 | Indeed , the higher a case proceeds in the organization , the more officials rely for their knowledge of ‘ the problem ’ upon a version constructed by field staff and substantially transmitted by the written word ( cf. |
| 17 | It is a feature of most surveys concerned with older people that they enumerate the care received by older people but rarely ask about the care that is provided by older people themselves . |
| 18 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 19 | It is a often a nursery for fish species that normally live in the separate worlds of freshwater rivers or the sea . |
| 20 | My idea of heaven is a meal starting with champagne and smoked salmon and then followed by a whole series of pudding trolleys rolling up one by one ! ’ |
| 21 | The most recent study of Neratius ' regulae has argued that while this passage is unobjectionable , the work as a whole was not written by Neratius , but rather excerpted principally from his works and probably published in the early fourth century . |
| 22 | But this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3–0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent . |
| 23 | A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first-innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3-0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent . |