Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bad debts alone cost £2 million , the departing chief executive , Graeme Odgers , admitted yesterday . |
| 2 | The reason for their non-availability will not surprise anyone who has dealings with an insurance company — the policies apparently attract people who make claims . |
| 3 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 4 | In 1294–7 , it has been calculated , the laity and clergy together yielded £280,000 in direct taxes to the king . |
| 5 | Satellite channels already claim 1.2m subscribers , and Britain 's cable-television operators another 115,000 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're departing from the idea that microcomputers will be a fantastic source of telecommunications traffic in the future , ’ said Jean-Jacques Damlamian , France Telecom 's sales director , citing a study by DG Conseil that shows France 's 420,000 networked personal computers already generating $160m per year in revenues for all types of telecommunications traffic . |
| 7 | Whilst it is certainly true that any process is better than none , awareness of all four aspects best equips people to deal with all eventualities . |
| 8 | If we take these characteristics of perception into an organizational setting , then the verbal and non-verbal signals still provide data for interpersonal relationships . |
| 9 | ‘ Coping with stress ’ books often offer people a prescription : lots of techniques and good advice that are claimed to have been tried and tested and of proven value to all . |
| 10 | Foreigners now own 3% of all listed shares ( nearly 5% , if indirect ownership through funds is included ) . |
| 11 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |
| 12 | ‘ None of the farm lads really understand sheep . |
| 13 | Bargain books now form 10% of its turnover , and were partly responsible , according to Barbara Gaskin , for the book department 's 8% rise in sales in 1992 . |
| 14 | The Spiro family arrived in Rancho Santa Fe 18 months ago telling people he was a broker in anything from rice to sweaters to cigarettes . |
| 15 | It is the kind of system with which experts can quickly get to grips but it is also targeted at non-technical authors , enabling them to quickly edit text , sound and images either to create multimedia presentations or to produce interactive multimedia applications . |
| 16 | Seve Ballesteros clinched his biggest cheque in six months when pocketing £16,000 for winning the Canon Shoot-out final at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 17 | The reason for such nonchalance is that the snakes seldom bite people and , even if they do , rarely inject much venom . |
| 18 | The CAPs currently generate 3% of the firm 's turnover , but Brossa plans to double the number of centres in the near future . |
| 19 | Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud . |
| 20 | We are asking Local Education Authorities not to make sales of school playing fields in future unless there is no evidence of long-term need . |
| 21 | Japan 's trade surplus with the USA in 1989 had been $49,000 million ( exports of less than $100,000 million against imports just exceeding $50,000 million ) . |
| 22 | It states , ‘ … grassland accounting for more than 70% of the total utilised agricultural area , a stocking rate of less than 1 livestock unit ( 1 cow over two years old or 6.6 sheep ) per forage hectare and farm rents not exceeding 65% of the national average … and a labour income per man — work unit exceeding 80% of the national average ’ . |
| 23 | BellSouth Telecommunications also issued $450m of 10-year 6.25% notes non-callable for life , at $99.557% to yield 6.31% via Morgan Stanley & Co Inc as lead manager , and said that it plans to redeem two outstanding bond issues on June 7 . |
| 24 | Companies often recruit staff from speculative letters they have kept on file , and your letter may arrive just at the right moment . |
| 25 | Furthermore , many trusts now enable people to invest regularly either through savings schemes or lump sums . |
| 26 | Some enlightened companies now penalise people who do n't . |
| 27 | Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft . |
| 28 | Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft . |
| 29 | In 1986/87 universities alone raised £630 million from all non-governmental sources : an increase of 18 per cent on the preceding year . |
| 30 | No convincing answer has been given as to why picnickers only pay £2 . |