Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also planned to rationalise operations in the UK , but Mr Heneaghan gave an assurance that Edinburgh , where his company employs five people , would remain as headquarters for the combined operation . |
| 2 | In a confused and confusing holiday price structure , it may be useful to translate these figures into pictures , do a Jack Horner on the holiday pie and pluck out some typical plums , pinpoint what the 1990 market offers for £250 per head . |
| 3 | THOUSANDS of students could have their studies disrupted following the decision by the largest lecturers ' union last night to reject the latest pay offers for staff in further and higher education colleges and polytechnics . |
| 4 | He himself lived off fruit with sugar , yoghurt , cereals , eggs , instant coffee , and he often ate toast three times a day . |
| 5 | Corticosteroids would not usually be prescribed for people with Aids , since their immune response is already suppressed , but recent reports suggest they can reduce the inflammatory process associated with PCP . |
| 6 | Perhaps some of the cooks who fought as infantry at Maleme , Crete , could drop us a line . |
| 7 | The trench will need to be around 500mm wide and 600 to 700mm deep — allowing for 100mm of bedding material |
| 8 | This knowledge is communicated between people by the use of shared models . |
| 9 | Gristy had been trolling for mackerel since dawn , and had had one of his best catches ever . |
| 10 | He had taken her to most of the local beauty spots ; arranged for cannon to be fired over the lake for their echoes and the quaint museum to be selectively open when they visited the place . |
| 11 | ARRANGED for £96,000 of union cash to be paid into his pension pot to give him inflation-proofing and a two-thirds pension on his final £55,000 salary . |
| 12 | Pharaon , holder of 25 percent of CenTrust 's shares , allegedly arranged for $25,000,000 of the issue to be placed temporarily with BCCI to mislead regulators into believing the entire issue had been sold . |
| 13 | Priority booking can be arranged for staff by contacting the public affairs department at John Wood House . |
| 14 | Videos and computer games , hi-fidelity television and quadrophonic sound are the sort of toys developed for people with nothing better to do . |
| 15 | The February 1971 auction saw the majority of the Tora fleet sell for $2,000 to $5,000 , depending on type and aircraft time . |
| 16 | Sell the 5,000 units to Noxid and reduce their other sales of units that sell for £22 by 556 units ; this would result in a total contribution of or : |
| 17 | IBANEZ RG-560 , white , Floyd Rose , 6 months old , hardly used , superb condition , £500 new , sell for £380 with case . |
| 18 | WASHBURN Jumbo acoustic , sunburst finish , current price new £550 exc case , sell for £275 inc case , mint condition . |
| 19 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 20 | KS lesions on the face can be distressing , but can be covered with special make-up formulated for people with disfiguring birth-marks . |
| 21 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 22 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 23 | The government retained a minority share in the Sicartsa rolled steel mills which sold for $170,000,000 to the Villacero Group , while Grupo Acerero del Norte bought Altos Hornos de Mexico for $350,000,000 and took over $350,000,000 of its debt . |
| 24 | A more prurient depiction of childhood was Bouguereau 's ‘ Retour des Champs ’ , of a tousled-haired girl carrying a bundle of what seems to be herbs , which sold for $180,000 to the trade ( £103,400 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 25 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 26 | A pair of mahogany and ebonised doors by Alfred Waterhouse from the Natural History Museum in London sold for £1,700 to the Fine Art Society itself ( est. £800–1,200 ) , while an oak corner bookcase by Waterhouse brought £8,500 ( est. £2–3000 ) . |
| 27 | Breaking the five-figure mark again , he sold for 10,800gn to the judge , Roger Hazard , Grantham , Lincolnshire . |
| 28 | One lot of five Continental cross bulls offered through Wright-Manley sold for 118.5p per kg but another bunch of 16 failed to reach their reserve . |
| 29 | Saw children into playground and checked for staff on duty . |
| 30 | But health , education and social security together account for 61% of public spending . |