Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Extended Industry Standard Architecture subcommittee is planning a 64-bit replacement for EISA bus that will transfer multiple data packets faster than 200Mb per second . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp told Reuter that its retail shipments of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade , which have sold more than 2m copies worldwide since it was introduced two weeks ago , are supply-constrained — it just ca n't duplicate the thing fast enough . |
| 3 | Even though the long , hot summer took its toll on audiences , the generous support of Cannon Cinemas still provided the Association with the substantial sum of £88,358 . |
| 4 | Fish features strongly as nearby Newlyn has the third highest fish landings in England . |
| 5 | Easy access to the markets of the capital for its corn , dairy produce and fatstock brought the marshland of southern Essex great wealth , of which almost two-fifths belonged to a fairly large class of rich men ; smallholders also prospered , the number of £2 assessments more than offsetting the relatively few £1 ones . |
| 6 | Line management will accept advice from specialist staff experts only when such advice seems necessary or appropriate . |
| 7 | Scrapping duplicate computer facilities and staff accounts typically for four-fifths of all potential savings , according to FMCG 's John Moynihan . |
| 8 | Cost of sales is also adjusted to reflect these deductions , except that only equal annual charges for debt service are deducted so as to spread the financing costs over the remaining lives of the respective sales contracts rather than the uneven repayment schedules established for the loans . |
| 9 | He is eager to cultivate such sales channels worldwide because he feels them to be an under-exploited source of revenue . |
| 10 | The danger of selling features rather than benefits is particularly acute in industrial selling because of the highly technical nature of many industrial products , and the tendency to employ sales engineers rather than salespeople . |
| 11 | Their energy was the energy of pop 's sales teams rather than its consumers . |
| 12 | The growth of the Welfare State was seen to have developed diseconomies of scale and was seen to be securing staff interests rather than the public 's . |
| 13 | One strong theme was that of training people by using internal staff members rather than consultants . |
| 14 | You ca n't go around calling people liars just because their memories are a bit faulty . |
| 15 | Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television . |
| 16 | The staff representatives here as at other levels of the machinery must be members of the signatories to the 1956 agreement , that is NUR , ASLEF and TSSA ; union branches play no formal part in the LDCs , but in practice there are often close informal ties and overlapping membership ( Edwards and Lloyd 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Some species can be extremely difficult to spawn — but keeping large species groups together until they are sexually mature can help . |
| 18 | The accumulated bric-à-brac of status which graced many a Victorian family parlour , tucked away on a mahogany table behind the aspidistra , was so often important to.the owners precisely because they felt rather less than secure about their own ranking in an increasingly volatile and uncharted class structure . |
| 19 | The family connections of the Pastons in Norfolk do not seem to have been quite so far-reaching among the gentry families there as those of the Stonors , although Margaret Mauteby , the wife of the elder John Paston , was the daughter of another gentleman of the shire . |
| 20 | You will remember that a decision was taken a few years ago that we would lay our track to the standard British gauge of 4′ 8½″ rather than to the Irish gauge of 5′ 3″ . |
| 21 | A WOMAN was fined £231 with £30 costs yesterday after she admitted fraudulent use of a car tax disc . |
| 22 | Better results are obtained by rooting them singly in 2in pots rather than several to a larger pot . |
| 23 | 29 per cent could read a value between graduations. 50–65 per cent could measure in cm lengths longer than the ruler in use ( p.69 ) . |
| 24 | BUSINESSMAN Jeffrey Davies was awarded £60,000 damages yesterday after his sex life was ruined by a runaway horse . |
| 25 | The south-west wing , 6′ 6″ lower than the north terrace , was entirely occupied by two large and elaborate bath-suites . |