Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier ’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . |
| 2 | In 100 women undergoing termination of pregnancy , coelomic fluid was successfully aspirated in 96% of cases at 6–10 weeks ' gestation , 42% at 11 , and 10% at 12 weeks . |
| 3 | ( b ) The problem of sustaining pupils ' independent use of the library after library induction , since it was only manned for 60% of the time , and often there was no one there to mediate between pupils ' needs and the resources . |
| 4 | During the village case study ( July to September ) , gur was only found in 10% of households . |
| 5 | Perhaps surprisingly the use of banks and trade exhibitions was only mentioned by 1% of respondents . |
| 6 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 7 | The fact that they did arrive however , was much appreciated by people in this part of Gloucestershire . |
| 8 | A starter regimen was used , with infusion of 60% of the calculated total caloric requirements on the first day ; this was progressively increased to 100% by the third day . |
| 9 | The individual referred to whose level of participation did not increase until the second datapoint after transfer ( HM ) shows marked increase in use of leisure equipment ; the observers reported that this was very simple manipulation of a guitar and was possibly prompted by staff in an attempt to influence the evaluation . |
| 10 | The sum was later reduced to £300,000 on appeal . |
| 11 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 12 | The deficit in the Personal Motor account was substantially reduced from $20.0m to $3.4m reflecting higher premium levels and lower claims frequency on a better quality portfolio . |
| 13 | Devotion in the Middle Ages was often expressed by means of penitential journeys to famous shrines . |
| 14 | The area underlain by marble was accurately delineated by means of closely spaced specially drilled deep boreholes , and the resulting maps have allowed the town planning authorities to modify their layouts . |
| 15 | The first decade of the Franco regime was appropriately known by people on both sides of the political divide as " the hungry years " ( " los años del hambre " ) . |
| 16 | The AP data was correctly parsed for 73% of cases , the Hansard for 60% of cases . |
| 17 | ( Sir Piers Edgcumbe was indeed rated at £400 for the subsidy , but , equally a Devon man , was absent from Cornwall in 1522 . ) |
| 18 | It is interesting to note that shortly after this study , the top rate of tax on earned income in the UK was indeed reduced from 83% to 60%.4 |
| 19 | Much of this was then recycled to MPs through careful abridgement of the evidence given to parliamentary committees . |
| 20 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 21 | It was subsequently raised to £40 in October 1980 and £50 in November 1983 . |
| 22 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |