Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At the top of the scale only seven Buckinghamshire parsons were worth £40 or more , compared with a good fifth of the total in Norfolk , where no fewer than four reached three figures . |
| 2 | The vouchers will be worth £1,000 or more , depending on the youngster 's requirements . |
| 3 | Both had superb , doubly dissected leaves , as elegant as the foliage of ferns , hanging down for 2ft or so . |
| 4 | Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman . |
| 5 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 6 | COPIES of the Daily Mirror were changing hands for £1 or more yesterday — and one desperate punter offered £5 to get his hands on one . |
| 7 | But the signals need boosting , ideally after 250m and certainly every 2 km . |
| 8 | Twenty years ago , with your wits about you , you might have bought it for £5 or less . |
| 9 | A asked ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ and was told that he would receive £10,000 if W bought it for £100,000 or less . |
| 10 | Raima 's appeal is to technical users writing complex applications rather than the packaged market , and Unix sales now account for 20% or so of business in the UK . |
| 11 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 12 | A strong bloc of townsmen worth £10 and upwards made the average wealth of Bodmin , Cornwall , a trifle higher than in the rest of Trigg hundred , even though the taxed wage earners , who formed a negligible element in the country parishes , exceeded 40 per cent in the borough itself , numbers which point to a concentration of men who had effectively severed kinship ties with the Celtic extended family that so influenced the social structure of many villages . |
| 13 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 14 | Prices for visitors ' berths until 1 April are ; £9.50 per night for craft of up to 31ft ( 9.5m ) and £11.50 for boats of 31ft or above . |
| 15 | Interestingly , membership of occupational schemes among women in the higher earnings groups is greater than that of men ( 86 per cent compared with 82 per cent among women and men with gross weekly earnings of £250 or more ) . |
| 16 | Not only did David 's suggestion earn him a Winning Ideas Gold Award and the tidy sum of £1,000 but also a luxury trip to the Imola San Marino Grand Prix . |
| 17 | He left Ayr to become player-coach of junior side Glenafton for a fee of £1,000 and less than £100 per match . |
| 18 | Homeowners Friendly Society ( ) has designed the Green Chip Investment Fund for investments of £1,000 or more . |
| 19 | Prize/medallion winners must have gained marks of 80% or above . |
| 20 | Medallion winners must have gained marks of 80% or above . |
| 21 | On May 3rd the Israelis sat down with two Palestinian academics , Ahmed Khalidi from Britain and Camille Mansour from France , who belong to the diaspora of 4m or so Palestinians who live outside Israel and the occupied territories . |
| 22 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 23 | The return shows in all 849 persons of £40 and above , which should yield a net figure of something like 700 possible merchants , since a good many of the assessmented belonged to gentry , clergy , members of non-mercantile companies , or men of unstated occupation . |
| 24 | Each pair handed in before June 13th entitles you to a £20 voucher against any purchases of £60 or more on a new pair form Boots . |
| 25 | To gauge the effectiveness of the appeal of the plaque , consider that of the ten donors of $500,000 or more , only one has forgone the opportunity to take public credit for their magnanimity ; and of the thirty-one contributors of $100,000 or more , all but six , ( three have underwritten exhibition and outreach programs ) . |
| 26 | A line of 4lb or even 5lb b.s. is safer to begin with . |
| 27 | Inevitably there would be areas of the back glass left exposed , and I would use roofing slates to mask these to a height of 10in or more , to prevent flash reflections when taking photographs . |
| 28 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 29 | The New York Times said US Trade Representative Carla Hills would announce taxes of 100% or more on up to £240m worth of luxury European exports . |
| 30 | The New York Times said US Trade Representative Carla Hills would announce taxes of 100% or more on up to £240m worth of luxury European exports . |