Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how did she feel about becoming corps officer ? |
| 2 | In 1981 John Bryce , a former partner in an Edinburgh firm of investment managers , pleaded guilty and was given an absolute discharge after depositing £1400 compensation . |
| 3 | Bradley Cowling of Byron Street , and Brian Goldsmith , of Wayman Street , both Southwick , were arrested after stealing £220 worth of clothes from two high street stores . |
| 4 | Thieves left a pushchair in a garage after stealing £1,500 worth of tools . |
| 5 | Thousands of disappointed customers were kept waiting for free tickets to America after buying £100 vacuum cleaners . |
| 6 | Check : He has $15 after getting $3 tip and $15 — 3 = $12 . |
| 7 | They had penetrated the giant Catterick Garrison , North Yorks , after scaling 10ft perimeter fences topped with razor wire . |
| 8 | The firm represented Paula when she was given a conditional discharge for causing £570 damage to a taxi in a drunken rage . |
| 9 | Borland has obviously found a way around the problem of maintaining data integrity , performing operations on the data in those fields without causing logical conflicts within the databases . |
| 10 | Occasionally agency interviewers may adopt a jaded and cynical approach , the result of seeing people day after day and forgetting that each one is an individual who should be assessed individually . |
| 11 | With you aboard , I would n't dare turn my back for fear of becoming fish meal . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't say I was enamoured of the prospect of paying £150 entrance fee and about the same in annual subscription , but keen to do the right thing , I asked Robert Balfour , then Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and Dawyck Haig to propose and second me . |
| 13 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 14 | The robots were doing a lot of turning people back , and the guard-manned point was thronged with a wedge-shaped queue of complaining travellers . |
| 15 | As one IBMer said : ‘ You ca n't build a $60billion corporation out of selling $400 networking cards . ’ |
| 16 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 17 | Kevin Maxwell also faced two charges of stealing £6,939,885.46 worth of securities from Mirror Group Pension Trustees and 1,000,000 Berlitz International shares from the US Macmillan publishing company . |
| 18 | Next week , Erin Sloman will be back again , talking about ways of teaching people computing . |
| 19 | Two quotes help to illustrate the importance of giving people belief in their own cultural values . |
| 20 | A system of giving staff time out of their normal managerial duties , operated , for example , on a rotation basis within a given specialty area would enhance nurses ' appreciation of their colleagues ' clinical fields , and encourage improved communications and understanding . |
| 21 | MPs have welcomed the action , but some people on the Blackbird Leys Estate have accused the police of harassing youngsters.Mike Rowbottom reports . |
| 22 | Several methods of implementing pen.loop control , including a microprocessor.based scheme , are introduced in that chapter , so in this Section we can concentrate on the relative merits of software and hardware.intensive systems for the detailed control of stepping rate . |
| 23 | Still it 's nice to know that there is a way of achieving 100% industry compatibility and serial mice are very cheap at the moment . |
| 24 | Optical discs are soon likely to become the standard means of storing multimedia information . |
| 25 | AT&T CONFIDENT OF WINNING $30M ORDER FROM SOUTH KOREA |
| 26 | There is also a free three year Maintenance Plan , where you are given next day on-site support with the option of claiming £50.00 compensation per day should Ti'Ko fail to meet this obligation . |
| 27 | ‘ The companies we have today are capable of delivering 15% turnover growth a year . |
| 28 | The time/distance you flew from 030° to 060° equals the time/distance from the station along the second line of bearing 060° relative ) . |
| 29 | On-line handwriting recognition requires some kind of digitising data tablet to capture the script as it is written . |
| 30 | It was the culmination of two years of mounting media attention for Beattie . |