Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Last year a Harrogate firm was fined more than £6000 for importing cheap drugs without a product licence .
2 Kelly , 24 , of Coledale Road , Berwick Hills , Middlesbrough , was fined £250 after admitting assaulting PC Brown , occasioning him actual bodily harm , outside Middlesbrough Town Hall .
3 These are to : — demonstrate achievement of results by comparing performance data to standards , targets and goals ; — plan operations and budget resource requirements by providing data for comparing present and proposed methods and procedures ; — provide a rational basis for pricing goods and services ( when charges are made ) ; — make trade-off decisions between efficiency and the level of service ; and — indicate to employees and supervisors what results are expected .
4 Quarmby et al. ( 1988b ) also discuss the use of SPOT data for monitoring urban land-use change in south-east England .
5 I think er it 's got to be er linked certainly to the rate of inflation , er and in some way linked to the way that the fire service er has their pay formula , and they 're actually linked to 25% of the top 25% of schooled manual workers , er we 'd be looking at some sort of deal like that , or if it was n't er tied up with percentage rates I think we need , definitely need an independent pay review body for the ambulance service .
6 An accounting presentation that does not , in effect , distinguish between recourse and an option to buy-up the residual 10% of performing securitised assets seems to me misguided .
7 To test the appropriateness of the model by empirical study of data from leading international companies in the same or related manufacturing sectors and set up comparisons with consumer-orientated companies ( e.g. electronics , electrical goods ) .
8 Michael O'Neil , the project 's manager , concluded that Bow Valley 's information systems , based on ageing mainframe computers , prevented data from crossing functional and divisional boundaries .
9 A useful research exercise would be to compare the use of census and PAC data in deriving quantitative risk assessments and this is an interesting research problem .
10 As BHC says , it has moved from building low-flying aircraft to making high-flying boats .
11 Take advantage of saving 25% by ordering all 4 volumes at the price of only £52.80 .
12 He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money .
13 The captain , F/L K I Foster , saved the aircraft by using evasive manoeuvres to extinguish the fire .
14 The ESRC Data Archive 's raison d'etre is to promote the widest use of the data by providing efficient flexible user service , and by sharing information and encouraging the use of the data by means of workshops , bulletins , usergroups , and networks .
15 We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data .
16 An interesting feature of the method is that the functions and are obtained in terms of the prescribed initial data by solving generalized versions of Abel 's integral equation for the tautochrone problem of classical particle mechanics .
17 We saw lots of people picking up stones erm from around , by the edges of the roads and making little piles and they would then get picked up by lorries and I should think they 'd get a , a couple of pence through doing that .
18 On 15th February 1988 a Press Report stated that — two men from Nottinghamshire were fined £700.00 each and a third man £500.00 for killing two badger cubs — a crime to which they pleaded guilty .
19 The District Court in Topeka , Kansas , fined James and Linda Newton $75,000 for spreading false and malicious statements associating Procter & Gamble with satanism , one more in a long line of lawsuits the company has filed .
20 In 1988 the operations lost £100,000 after meeting central group charges .
21 At Southend , Essex , jobless Arthur Snow , 29 , got a £560 Oriental rug for £10 after waiting outside Keddies since Christmas Day .
22 The drama unfolded as newsagent Philip Grace became trapped by up to 15ft of rising floodwater in his Llandudno Junction shop .
23 While the High Wycombe , Berkshire-based group spent £4.3m in closing loss-making businesses and selling surplus properties , this was partially offset by £3.4m gains following the sale of 329,000 common shares of GTI .
24 So , for example , in the current tax year , individuals aged less than 65 may receive £3,445 before paying any tax while those over that age threshold may receive £4,200 , rising to £4,370 for those aged 75 or more .
25 ‘ Then why not kill Hung Mien-lo and prevent Mach from making this deal ?
26 It spends £100,000 in buying American shares ( that are located in the USA for the purposes of Schedule D , Case V ) and receives £2,000 .
27 Palace spent £100,000 on sending 23-year-old Salako across the Atlantic 12 months ago for revolutionary donor surgery .
28 Organisation spokesperson Ann Bannister said : ‘ The government is aiming to save £400m by forcing absent parents to pay maintenance .
29 Similarly , the cut-off value of 5.5 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea patients had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 38% , and positive predictive value of 73% for separating reversible renal failure from CRF , and a cut-off value of 0.2 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 58% , and positive predictive value of 80% for separating the two conditions .
30 Raiders got away with more than £600 after using cutting equipment to open a safe at the Leeds Permanent Building Society in Whitby .
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