Example sentences of "with [n mass] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 2 | Institutions were asked to return the questionnaire if possible by 30th September , 1985 , with data relating to the academic year 1984–85 . |
| 3 | Now the amount received does n't look so wonderful with £600 coming from the regular saving and the measly £97.70 coming from interest earned . |
| 4 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 5 | Afterwards , about five , when the club started to fill up with people arriving for the daily hockey and cricket matches , played always , by personal decree of the Consul-General , in the cool of the evening , he returned to his office . |
| 6 | The difference in height between the two groups with means standardised to the same age distribution has already been calculated by analysis of covariance which controls for age ( table II ) . |
| 7 | Top cash are on offer to professional and amateur players with £150 added for the highest break in the competition by bookmaker Joe Suckling . |
| 8 | The giant American-owned company , based in Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , confirmed that a £16.8m ‘ surplus ’ had been moved to its general fund with £11.2m handed to the Inland Revenue . |