Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [n mass] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average British Holstein type of cow stands 145cm at the withers and weighs 655kg , while the bull is up to 183cm and 1,360kg in extreme cases . |
| 2 | David Quelch of Buntingford , Herefordshire , admitted using the device to remove fish at a pit in Haddenham , Cambridgeshire without consent but claimed he was carrying out a health check on behalf of the owners . |
| 3 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 4 | Ford 's bull-whip has played no mean role either — the whip raised £12,500 at an auction in aid of new archaeological science laboratories for the Institute of Archaeology at University College London . |
| 5 | The church cost £2,000 at the time . |
| 6 | She lost her sight following smallpox at the age of eighteen months . |
| 7 | At that time it was very similar to the modern Devon in conformation and colour : Garrard 's engraving in 1800 showed a dark red Devon ox standing 152cm at the withers , but the bull was 135cm and the cow 119cm — similar to the ‘ Suffolk Polled ’ of the time but smaller than the Hereford and Sussex ( each about 142cm/130cm ) . |
| 8 | It would be possible for these records to be analysed in order to produce statistics at the Local Authority level , which could then be used to improve the specificity of the estimates . |