Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teer accepted £4,500 from the supporters ' club , £1,500 of which will go to the Geddis Memorial Stand Fund . |
| 2 | Most of the increase is to cover higher county council spending plans £19.66 of it will be spent by the county while only £1.61 will go towards borough expenditure . |
| 3 | In Bradford the Conservative vote in 13 wards was more than 10% above what would be predicted from the character of those wards , despite the positive swing to Labour noted earlier . |
| 4 | The accumulation of such data in itself might form the basis for an evaluation of Compact . |
| 5 | No doubt computers will be utilized to manage and track the inevitable masses of information and to provide comparative fitness testing data on what could be a pool of more than 100 players in the three categories . |
| 6 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |
| 7 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 8 | Creative Technology Ltd , Singapore sound board maker , says said it plans to file with the Securities & Exchange Commission for a public offering of about 5m common shares , 2m of which will be new . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if so 's you 're to do wi' Brownies an' you could bring yum back to t' dale , ma'am , folk like me would be much obliged , ’ said Aunt Nellie . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a subject on which judges need , and should have , expert assistance from a clinical psychologist and not be left to flounder through what may be an ill-informed and perfunctory form of inquisition before the child gives evidence . ’ |
| 11 | As reported on Aug. 23 a $244,000,000 economic aid agreement had been signed with the USA to support the economic recovery programme , $130,000,000 of which would used towards payment of debt arrears . |
| 12 | Fifty percent of you will die of heart attacks , twenty plus will die of cancer , and ten percent will die of strokes . |
| 13 | Labour voters have not changed their minds in such high numbers 83pc of them will still vote Labour and only six per cent have switched to the Tories or to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 14 | Strike statistics by themselves may not reflect the often violent background to the annual Spring wage negotiations . |
| 15 | In addition , you will need good relations with the media for you 'll often find yourself ringing a newspaper asking for a couple of hours " grace . |
| 16 | If the intention , in the week before the election , was to scare people about what would happen if the Tories won again , it did n't work . |
| 17 | One knows that disabled people from the War are getting older and there possibly are n't quite so many of them , but we felt as a Trust that there were still a number of people about who would benefit from having this sort of accommodation . |
| 18 | In Leeds , local councillors have been sheepish about releasing plans to local people for what might just prove to be one of the most inspired and humane post-war city centre redevelopments masterminded by the architects Terry Farrell and Rob Krier for the Dutch developer MAB . |
| 19 | He was a great Wotan and Hans Sachs of his time , but he assumed many more characters , as this disc sketches in , by means of what can only be called ‘ random ’ arias . |
| 20 | Specifically , the products may be gross substitutes in demand : increased sales of one will detract from sales of the other . |
| 21 | I 'm going to start off by suggesting why people like yourselves ought to be much more pro-active , take a much more lead in terms of doing things with the media . |
| 22 | For , she thinks , if privileged spoiled people like her ca n't get off their backsides and put their money where their mouth is … |
| 23 | People like her should live near the shops . ’ |
| 24 | he said impatiently to Burt , describing the impossibility of dealing with such turncoats , ‘ they were determined that people like me should never comc into our own . |
| 25 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 26 | Home home counties people like me could go anywhere . |
| 27 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 28 | Then I 'm off to see Alexander O'Neal — people like him would never travel to Australia . |
| 29 | ‘ Steve Cram and people like him should be there . |
| 30 | When they were asked about any credit arrangements which they knew people like them could use to buy things , these were the proportions which named each of the following : |