Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhabitants of Tali-fu are mostly Min Chia , a population with a distinctive language of their own , and to Hsu 's personal dismay he was treated as a stranger : " though regarded sympathetically , I was always an outsider , despite the fact that as far as physical appearance is concerned I seemed no different from those who made up the community " . |
| 2 | These days , of course , huge numbers of interactive terminals are also available for simple transactions such as automated bank telling , but these are rarely multimedia applications and we will not cover them here . |
| 3 | The source , destination , and editing pattern are all byte strings , and the editing pattern has four possible entries : digit selector ( DS:binary 00100000 ) , significance starter ( SS : binary 00100001 ) , field separator ( FS : binary 00100010 ) , and message character ( MC : any other binary pattern ) . |
| 4 | The shop 's profile is reflected in the sales , which over any given trading year are largely 50% books and 50% non-books . |
| 5 | Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation . |
| 6 | They 're basically 55mm diameter Street Bones . |
| 7 | I B , C are both pos. def. , unc is real , finite , an positive . |
| 8 | She then appointed two people , one was Edwina Currie as a Junior Minister , and the other was Norman Tebbit as Party Chairman , who are both media people . |
| 9 | I am nearly 5ft 11ins tall and should be around 11 stone but barely weigh 9st 7lbs ’ , he complains . |
| 10 | Tawny owls eat more or less equal quantities of many different prey types , whereas long-eared owls are vole and bird specialists , short-eared owls are mainly vole specialists , and barn owls are vole and shrew specialists . |
| 11 | A recent survey by Proshare-Mori reveals that there are now 9.26m shareholders in Britain . |
| 12 | I 'm not naturally slim , and any excess weight I do put on shows because I 'm only 5′ 1″ . |
| 13 | IBM said that the cost of the actions will be approximately $2,100m net , on top of the $2,100m that it will take to cover the cost of the voluntary redundancies , the $4,200m total to be offset by adoption of Financial Accounting Standard 109(a) , which will allow the company to write back to the profit and loss account about $1,900m in money set aside for deferred taxes . |
| 14 | CW reported that Brazilian group consumable costs will be approximately £200 p.a . |
| 15 | It is hard to imagine Greeks letting basic decisions about their future be taken by a European parliament that would be about 97% non-Greek . |
| 16 | Oilseed production is likely to be about 12.8m tonnes , compared with 12.4m tonnes last year . |
| 17 | Argentina 's crop could be around 10m tonnes . |
| 18 | Modern harbourside developments are increasingly popular.At Admiral 's Quay in Falmouth , part of the old waterfront , six flats and four houses in Phase I are new and only a minute 's walk from the town . |
| 19 | ‘ At present there are around 3m households supplied with hampers and we are steadily increasing our share . |
| 20 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 21 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 22 | The investigation included soil gas surveys and core drilling , and showed that modern industries were not responsible.The pollution probably derived from an engineering works that was closed some IS years ago . |
| 23 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 24 | In fact I pointed that out to the grave-diggers , but they were already 4ft 6ins down at the time . |
| 25 | Its dimensions were also 52ft 6in by 9ft . |
| 26 | The gang of baddies were originally deer stealers ; and it was The Food programme , discussing the increasing availablity of game in High Street supermarkets , who had pointed out that at one time British prisons held more poachers than all the prisoners in France put together . |
| 27 | Of the 1,533 men under 5ft 6ins , 118 of them suffered a heart attack compared with only 62 of the 1,533 men who were over 5ft 10ins . |
| 28 | Very similar to L. heterophylla , the main difference being that L. indica , when grown emersed , bears dark green , fleshy , feathery leaves which are not divided . |
| 29 | Currently the EEC Nine is only 64% self sufficient in lamb and mutton and around 95 — 97% in beef . |
| 30 | Membership is only £5 p.a . |