Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baroness Hooper , the Government 's junior health spokeswoman , put her name to a press release which effectively said people could eat sugar without worry . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 3 | Kimura ( 1973a ) observed the movements which right handed people made with their hands during five minutes of conversation and during five minute periods of silent verbal and non-verbal problem solving . |
| 4 | Changes occurred as a by-product of war emergency which greatly affected people 's view of the secondary selection system . |
| 5 | Only other aircraft in the sale , was Slingsby Grasshopper glider XK824 , which only reached £650 in the bidding and was unsold . |
| 6 | The 43-year-old Alton woman faked her spouse 's signature on 29 transactions which together totalled £1,155 . |
| 7 | This increase partly reflects the benefits derived from the issue of preference capital in September 1992 and March this year , which together totalled $250m , and the acquisition of the Prudential non-life business in Canada . |
| 8 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid , net investment income in sterling terms increased from $102.7m to $115.6m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.3% , partly reflecting the benefits derived from the issue of preference capital in September 1992 and March this year , which together totalled $250m . |
| 9 | The most active counties continued to be Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire which together provided 56% of the total number of classes and students . |
| 10 | The Mitterrand ‘ current ’ or faction , which once controlled 60% of the party , has split . |
| 11 | He had not acted on impulse since his time as a young captain in Morocco , anxious to make his mark in an institution which deliberately massified people and subjugated their individuality . |
| 12 | This was because the landscape is flat , or gently undulating , and so there were few places which specially attracted people . |
| 13 | John Riehl , executive director of an aid group called AmeriCare , said Bowe paid $94,000 ( £65,000 ) to charter a flight from New York to Nairobi which also carried $1.8 million worth of medicine . |
| 14 | But against the almost universal acceptance within the established political networks that nuclear energy was ‘ safe and sound ’ , there was a sense of powerlessness which inevitably drove people to the barricades . |
| 15 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 16 | In the gilts market the only seller was the Bank of England , which officially off-loaded £1.6 billion of paper . |
| 17 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |
| 18 | A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers . |
| 19 | Fourth , we 've heard from Mr Williamson his interpretation of what strictly controlled means . |