Example sentences of "[n mass] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A taxi driver was attacked and robbed of £35 by two men as he left his office in Coperative Terrace , Backworth , North Tyneside , early yesterday . |
| 2 | They bought 21 UK groups for £918m in the nine months , which compared with 62 deals worth £382m by British companies in France . |
| 3 | The Milne and Stewart Consultancy 's survey provides data by socio-economic groups for 1977 and 1983 . |
| 4 | For staff , because the process involves a protracted process of consultation with the local authority , sometimes other agencies , and the careful scrutiny of all relevant data by other personnel , internal policies might be seen as wanting and senior staff viewed as incompetent . |
| 5 | The proponents of the scheme — Nuclear Free Scotland — which co-ordinates nuclear policy for the majority of Scottish councils — has expressed frustration with the delay in the provision of pollution data by British authorities . |
| 6 | And tobacco is eighty seven percent by four companies . |
| 7 | Tea is eighty five percent by three companies . |
| 8 | The Figure shows that 25% of patients with ulcerative colitis exhibited low grade dysplasia on at least occasion by 17 years after diagnosis of ulcerative colitis , 50% by 25 years , and 75% by 38 years . |
| 9 | Most were big institutions ; at the end of 1988 30% of junk outstanding was held by insurance companies , 30% by mutual funds and 15% by pension funds . |
| 10 | The data on the consumption of food antedate mortality statistics by 10 years , and include all foodstuffs with high sugar content , like honey , syrup , and glucose , in proportion to their sugar content . |
| 11 | We will increase choice for elderly and retired people by encouraging openings in voluntary and part-time work , and widening the availability of education , the arts and recreational facilities . |
| 12 | The provision of homes for old people by local authorities is still for only about twenty places per thousand old people in an area , and many of these will be for very old and frail disabled people . |
| 13 | The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops . |
| 14 | Increasing concern was expressed throughout the year by women 's groups , academics and journalists about the extremist views of the FIS and the lawlessness of its shorta Islamiya ( Islamic police ) , and about intimidation of women and young people by Moslem extremists . |
| 15 | The Swiss embassy in Tehran , which after November 1979 had also represented US interests in Iran , was closed on Dec. 29 in protest at restrictions and alleged harassment of Swiss diplomatic staff by Iranian officials , following the arrest of an Iranian in Switzerland . |
| 16 | External sales by chemical Products in Western Europe apart from the UK account for no less than 39 per cent of the total , and a further 31 per cent goes to non-ICI customers in Britain itself . |
| 17 | Going against the trend of static or falling sales by other newspapers , our October circulation was up a fabulous 57,403 on the same month last year . |
| 18 | Examples of different reasons for selling include sales by individual vendors who are retiring , sales by individuals who have inherited a family business , management buy-outs , group reorganisations , unbundling or demergers as defence mechanisms against a hostile bid , group rationalisations and sales by receivers and liquidators . |
| 19 | This would be true if there are more purchases of dollars by risk-averse buyers in the forward market than sales by risk-averse sellers . |
| 20 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 21 | However , the points covered are also relevant for sales by sole traders and by partnerships . |
| 22 | This is facilitated by the Stock Exchange Money Brokers ( SEMBs ) , described above in Section 3.2.4 , and enhances the ability of GEMMs to supply large amounts of stock on demand without having always to hold large inventories of stocks or without having to offset large sales by matching purchases in intra-market business . |
| 23 | Last month 's inflation fall — the biggest since 1967 — was the result of desperate summer sales by hard-pressed shops . |
| 24 | Over the period 1957–65 for US manufacturing , extra sales by overseas subsidiaries counted for an estimated 13 per cent of the total increase in production ( additional exports accounted for only a trivial 2 per cent ) . |
| 25 | For example , the encouragement of council house sales by Conservative governments under the terms of the Housing ( Finance ) Act 1972 and subsequently by the Housing Act 1980 has boosted owner-occupation . |
| 26 | Locally produced sales by American firms in Japan , however , do not count as exports , nor do their local purchases of inputs count as imports . |
| 27 | Barphone — currently controlled 62% by the Apchin family and 28% by institutional investors — reported 1992 revenues equivalent to $63.6m and a net profit of $3.3m . |
| 28 | With IBM France SA 's $450m — currency fluctuations have turned that to $465.6m by some accounts — recommended offer for CGI Informatique SA , yet another of IBM 's bluffs have been called . |
| 29 | Brame and Lorenceau , Paris , are showing forty-six works by major exponents of the school from 7 to 30 October , including paintings by Daubigny , Diaz , Huet and Millet , with eleven by Théodore Rousseau including a beautiful little ‘ Paysage à la colline ’ from a London private collection and a freely-worked ‘ Bourg en Auvergne ’ from a Basel private collection . |
| 30 | Works by major artists such as Brueghel , Aertsen , Mor , Rubens , van Dyck , Jordaens , Snyders and Teniers will be shown alongside less well known artists such as Van Balen , Diepenbeeck , Van Thulden and Boeckhorst . |