Example sentences of "a [n mass] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria Henderson has given Harvard a 50% interest in the holdings she amassed with her late husband Gregory , an American diplomat stationed in Korea for many years . |
| 2 | Supermarket rivals Safeway want to develop a £15m store on the outskirts at Bland 's Corner . |
| 3 | The project aims to develop a data bank on the origins , career patterns , wealth and creative role of business leaders in England and Wales from the last four decades of the nineteenth century to the generation of business leaders who retired in the 1970s . |
| 4 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 5 | Although the revolt lasted less than a month and its effects were confined to a small region , Gubec became a folk hero to the peasants . |
| 6 | OFFICIALS from the Group-of-Seven largest seven market economies will gather in Frankfurt today to put the finishing touches to a plan designed to lead to a $35billion increase in the resources of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 7 | THE long-awaited new organ can now be built in Chelmsford Cathedral thanks to a £100,000 donation from the Pools Promoters Association 's sports and arts foundation . |
| 8 | This included a 100 per cent increase in the numbers following the Evening Degree Programme , which attracted a £100,000 grant from the Universities ' Funding Council — 10 per cent of the total UK funding . |
| 9 | Nor was the state monopoly prepared to drop its prices in response to tougher competition from road hauliers ; recession has put many of these out of business , and brought a 20% fall in the rates demanded by the rest . |
| 10 | It was agreed that there would be no partnership salaries or interest on capital and that Frost would be entitled to a 20% share of the profits/losses . |
| 11 | The Data Discman , as it was originally called , is described in detail in chapter 3 but it is clear that with upgraded devices now being launched by Sony and a multimedia player in the wings , Sony 's handheld platform will be the basis of a new generation of powerful electronic book players . |
| 12 | ‘ In Scotland , a 5pc swing against the Conservatives would reduce our numbers from 11 to two and that would make it virtually impossible for a Conservative Government to govern in Scotland . ’ |
| 13 | She set up the business with her husband Jeremy after receiving a £3,000 grant from the Princes Trust and help from Darlington Business Venture . |
| 14 | The ICM survey shows a 7pc swing from the Conservatives to Labour overall , and in some areas the swing is as high as 10.5pc . |
| 15 | Mrs Fenton , who runs a wine business and lives in a £500,000 house on the outskirts of Stratford upon Avon , admitted careless driving , failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident . |
| 16 | In 1945 , the subscriptions rose from five to seven guineas ( four guineas to five guineas for ladies ) , close on a 30% increase for the Men and 25% for the Ladies only one of whom had a handicap at the end of the War . |
| 17 | In 1990 ( 1979 ) , 6079 ( 4678 ) elderly people were enumerated in 241 ( 133 ) establishments , a 30% increase in the numbers of elderly people in residential care and an 82% increase in the number of establishments between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 18 | Central American Cichlids by Dave Sands says to use a 200W heater/stat for a 24″ × 15″ × 12″ tank , and 2 × 150W for 36″ × 18″ × 12″ . |
| 19 | He likes a staff nurse on the children 's ward . |
| 20 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 21 | DONNA MULLER gave birth to a boy in a staff lavatory at the stables where she worked after keeping her pregnancy secret for nine months . |
| 22 | A vendor technology reference programme for product testing will be introduced by year end and SAG will embark on a sales campaign for the specifications . |
| 23 | Prepare a sales presentation for the briefcases . |
| 24 | Point B represents a state of labour market clearance : the curve which passes through point B is the usual notional demand for labour function which would apply if employers were not subject to a sales constraint in the goods market . |
| 25 | The curve , by contrast , is the effective demand curve for labour : firms , considered in the aggregate , can not sell more than Y units of output on account of a sales constraint in the goods market , which in turn is the result of a deficiency of aggregate demand . |
| 26 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 27 | Caesars Hotel Casino in Atlantic City was fined $250,000 on Wednesday for removing black women from a dice table for a high-stakes gambler who wanted to gamble only with white , male dealers . |
| 28 | In the last Bookish Portfolio article , published on 13th September 1991 , it was necessary to explain a 37% rise in the shares of that company between 28th September 1990 and 28th June 1991 without the author of the article or the editor of the Organ being served with expensive writs . |
| 29 | The Securities and Investments Board proposes a £50m contribution to the Investors Compensation Scheme for the proposed Personal Investment Authority . |
| 30 | The educational centre , at the edge of the industrial estate , has won a £1-for-£1 pledge from the Sports Council to back its fund-raising efforts for the £17,000 roof project . |