Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 2 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 3 | The contracts are among £1.6mworth of research secured by the university last month and brings its total research income to £14m . |
| 4 | On 17 April 1990 , the Daily Record broke the news that Rough had been charged in connection with £5 of meat taken from an Ayr supermarket . |
| 5 | Also exposed are 2Mb of RAM attached to the motherboard , three SIMM expansion slots which you can expand to a maximum of 14Mb , and a 40Mb Seagate hard drive . |
| 6 | The British already pay less tax , relative to GDP , than the citizens of the other main EC countries : 39% of GDP compared with an average of 44% in Germany , France and Italy . |
| 7 | Under the day-to-day surface of ordinary life in Shellerton the fish of murder swam like a shark , silent , unknown , growing new teeth . |
| 8 | Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 . |
| 9 | Much of the £25,000 of equipment taken in the raid was recovered from the stolen car . |
| 10 | The Government 's target is to recycle 25pc of household wastes by the year 2000 , and a new duty would be imposed on councils to give priority to recycling waste , where desirable . |
| 11 | It is also necessary to obtain approval from the water authority to discharge the effluent of a septic tank , by means of land drains into the ground . |
| 12 | Depending on your roof type , and whether your windows need to provide a means of escape to comply with the Buildings Regulations , there are three basic types . |
| 13 | By appropriating political power the bureaucracy took control of the principal means of production : ‘ The means of production belong to the state . |
| 14 | Being a member of a tribe and a kinsman to the other members of the tribe automatically implies having access to the means of production controlled by the community . |
| 15 | European means of representation refer to the experience of taking possession . |
| 16 | This pooled concentrated urine was then centrifuged at 10000 g for five minutes and 1 ml of supernatant chromatographed on a Sephadex G-25 column ( 0.9×43 cm ) in TRIS buffered saline ( TBS ) containing 50 mM TRIS/HCl , 0.15 M NaCl , 3.1 mM NaN 3 at pH 7.3 at a flow rate of 39.5 ml/ hour and 1.056 ml fractions collected and assayed using the APGPR ELISA . |
| 17 | Each subject had 5 ml of blood sampled from a forearm vein immediately before and every 10 minutes for two hours after the onset of the meal . |
| 18 | In 1988 the GEC-Plessey joint company ( GPT ) had the second-largest sales of telephone switches in the European market . |
| 19 | Because the nests are in such orderly rows , scientists at the Museum of Paleontology at Drumheller , Alberta , believe that the same species of dinosaur returned to the site to give birth each year for many hundreds of years . |
| 20 | The study identified a total of 1,868 species of tree involved in the world timber trade . |
| 21 | Even here , some annual changes might be seen such as the amount of detritus that showers down from the ocean surface or the species of animal sheltering in the cave . |
| 22 | The question is not so much with the identity of the species of animal found in the cave but how their bones came to be preserved in the cave in the first place . |
| 23 | The various species of cicada differ in the length of the life cycle but , interestingly , the interval between egg and adult is always a prime number — 13 or 7 years . |
| 24 | In 1985 only 15 species of bird nested on the farm ; in 1992 our breeding list had reached 45 species and we had 156 pairs of birds nesting here . |
| 25 | Of the 21 species of ant attracted to the arillate seeds , there are predatory carnivorous ponerines , which bear off the seeds , like animal prey , to the nest , where the nutritious arils are removed . |
| 26 | in both these instances , the degree of modification varies within a single species of predator according to the relative sizes of predator and prey , the maturity of either predator or prey , and the state of hunger of the predator ; |
| 27 | It suggests that , within the pasture , strains of white clover have been selected by competitive interaction with associated grasses and that different species of grass contribute to the diversifying or disruptive selection operating upon the population of white clover . |
| 28 | Last year , only 21% of glass used in the UK was recycled . |
| 29 | Two men were arrested yesterday after a police launch halted a small boat 10 miles off the Suffolk coast and found two holdalls containing £350,000-worth of cannabis floating in the sea . |
| 30 | It could be argued that one of the reasons for the social division in the area might be the fact that those in charge of the paraphernalia of research did in a sense predefine conflict in this way . |