Example sentences of "[n mass] and [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Revenue has raised an assessment charging tax in excess of £20,000 and has refused retirement relief on the sale of the milk quota because no land was sold ; farming continued after the sale ( in the Revenue 's view the provisions of s 53(2)TA88 mean that when a farmer changes the nature of his farming there is a continuation of the old trade and that the old and the new are equally applicable for CGT purposes ) ; the sales of the herd and milk quota were not effected at the same time . |
| 2 | The pilot-in-command held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings endorsed as valid for flying Swiss registered aircraft and had accumulated a total of 2,600 hours flying experience , including 400 hours on the accident type . |
| 3 | At some time while the aircraft was based at Harlingen , these items were removed from the aircraft and have disappeared mysteriously . |
| 4 | We sell these bags at £2.49 and have added only 15 per cent profit . ’ |
| 5 | The Royal Victoria patriotic Building in Wandsworth , having suffered dreadfully from a fire , was sold for just £1 and considered to have no possible use . |
| 6 | The chain was fined £19,200 and ordered to pay £4,700 costs for the offences , the charges having been brought under the Food Safety Act . |
| 7 | Today a change in policy has produced a refusal rate by the coroner of more than 10% and has resulted in clinicians not considering organ donation in certain types of case ( from which criminal proceedings might arise ) . |
| 8 | The supernatant containing the free leucine was neutralised with 1 M KOH at 4°C and centrifuged to remove excess KClO 4 . |
| 9 | In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data . |
| 10 | So it was a shock to them when , during lunch that Thursday , Jones announced that his Brigham Young University team was preparing to publish its data and offered to let Fleischmann and Pons publish simultaneously . |
| 11 | The county council has used the National Health Service 's central record of patient re-registrations as its principle source of for migration data and has chosen an eight year period to measure the trend . |
| 12 | Hence , tests of this relationship have had to use historical data and have had to assume that the distribution of returns has remained stable over time . |
| 13 | Surely we can not ; we must accept what we have as data and work to make the best of what we have , our environment and our circumstances . |
| 14 | As things stand , the visual system is proving a good model to guide investigation of other sensory systems but we need to be cautious about interpreting data and to avoid forcing these other systems into a straitjacket defined by the visual system . |
| 15 | But not before I saw the speedometer register over 100 mph and decided to fasten my seat belt . |
| 16 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 17 | They were keen Chapel folk and used to bring masses of flowers to Sunday School Anniversary . |
| 18 | A good choice could give you years of pleasure : the oldest authenticated Koi was a Higoi owned by Dr Komei Koshihara which , at the time of its death in 1968 , weighed 16½ lb and had clocked up 217 years . |
| 19 | C&P was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay costs . |
| 20 | He was fined £1000 and ordered to pay costs of £2200 . |
| 21 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 22 | At the local level , we will tackle litter and graffiti and start to transform inner city environments by establishing neighbourhood action areas where local communities can develop their own plans for regenerating the area . |
| 23 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 24 | He was fined £3,500 and told to do 140 hours ' community service . |
| 25 | Poly(A) + RNA was isolated from normal human skin fibroblasts 2h after treatment with 100μM hydrogen peroxide for 30min and used to construct a cDNA library in λ gt10 ( ref. 27 ) . |
| 26 | They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues . |
| 27 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |
| 28 | The etiology of this phenomenon has been principally studied in sheep and seems to result from a temporary relaxation in immunity associated with changes in the circulating levels of the lactogenic hormone , prolactin . |
| 29 | She conjured up an image of a five-barred gate , introduced some jumping sheep and attempted to count them , then giggled when they appeared wearing cork-strewn hats . |
| 30 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |