Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancelling fractions is when somebody ha gives you somebody says erm you say , How much pizza did you get ? three twelfths. three twelfths make it a bit more simple oh well it 's just the same as three three twelfths is |
| 2 | He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize . |
| 3 | The climb-out is shallow ( about 300 ft/min ) and flown at 50kts with the engine pulled back to 2250 rpm to conserve it a little — max rpm ( and thus 38hp ) is at 2625 rpm . |
| 4 | These variable data give us a basis for examining processes of change , since they suggest initially that either the higher or lower variants are innovatory , or — more properly — that the direction of change is either raising or lowering of /Ε/.; |
| 5 | However , by using different assessment methods , the concept has been refined to include how managers perceive their world , how they search for and select data , and how they conceptualize with that data to give it a framework and meaning . |
| 6 | Stockmar took care not to get involved in court favours , such as the bribe offered by an MP of £10,000 to obtain him a peerage . |
| 7 | Li Yuan studied them a moment , trying to get the key to their relationship — something more than could be gained from the summaries in the file — then returned to the desk and sat , leaving them standing . |
| 8 | Continuity in marketing can count for a lot , but not if consumer attitudes are going through a sea change , and BMW 's light-footedness in launching the 3-series earned it the brand of the year award for durables . |
| 9 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 10 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 11 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 12 | After Flavia had stated , baldly , that she had fallen in love with someone , Therese gave her a look . |
| 13 | The Western Systems offered more bang per buck : £1,115 buys you a faster machine . |
| 14 | The statistics confirm what a detailed reading will tell us , that the majority of the Sonnets move with astonishing frequency on the axis from I to You and back again . |
| 15 | If you go down to Newman Mobray , and walk down that little alleyway , Rose Place , you see what is the frontage of that house , and it 's very fine , and you can tell these are important people building themselves a fine house . |
| 16 | His financial skills were freely given to the work of the church and the warmth of his welcome to visitors and his genuine interest in people made him a host of friends . |
| 17 | Ms Jeffreys said : ‘ Deaths have all occurred since the rave scene began and people made it a dance drug . |
| 18 | It was an unsuitably domestic scene for two people labelling someone a murderer . |
| 19 | I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable . |
| 20 | At the Guildford DSS office , staff found it a little difficult to grasp the nature of their new client . |
| 21 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 22 | It 's cost-effective and lets people know what a car does when it 's out of control . |
| 23 | ( A sentimental view if one contrasts it with Nina Hamnett 's , who said that most people found him an awful nuisance . ) |
| 24 | As she increasingly became a historical figure herself , people found her a fascinating source of history for the inter-war period . |
| 25 | Eventually , John summoned up courage to ask permission to use different music : Ravel 's two-handed piano concerto in G. Presumably he was happier working with that , but few people found it an apt choice for the subject of the ballet , about a witch who destroys her lover . |
| 26 | PEOPLE send me the funniest letters . |
| 27 | Few people realise what an enormous achievement Concorde represents , even after it has demonstrated its capability of flying from New York to London or Paris in about three hours over a sustained operation for many years . |
| 28 | The media dub it the ‘ slimming disease ’ , and shake their heads in dismay at foolish girls ( and now boys ) who ‘ suffer from ’ this ‘ bewildering ’ ‘ illness ’ . |
| 29 | Q. Why do some people do everything the food experts tell them and still have high cholesterol levels ? |
| 30 | Summers says so , but he has n't seen the pictures , and there are always problems with stories that emphasise the power of Meyer Lansky ; he became a kind of bogeyman , credited with old crimes to boost a reputation which helped people do what the Mob wanted . |