Example sentences of "[n mass] and [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | & Bar ( r ) , who had been credited with shooting down 11 German aircraft and sharing in the destruction of two more . |
| 2 | The second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on today 's commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them . |
| 3 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |
| 4 | The free and protein bound leucine in the tissue biopsies were separated by pulverising the frozen tissue , homogenising in 0.2 M HClO 4 at 4°C and centrifuging at 2800 g for 20 minutes . |
| 5 | And it 's a very quick and very interesting , by comparing data and looking at what you 've got . |
| 6 | Yesterday she was given a two year probation and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation , after admitting three specimen charges amounting to £1,252 and asking for 27 similar offences to be taken into account . |
| 7 | It is a late-maturing breed and bears a superficial resemblance to the Limousin , whose region is fairly close to that of the Parthenais , but it is larger , bulls standing at about 138cm and weighing on average 1,050kg , and cows 135cm and 775kg . |
| 8 | It estimates that there are at least 150,000 photocopiers in use on copy-plan contracts in the UK , and that the whole photocopier industry is worth more than £1.2bn and increasing at between 5% and 25% a year . |
| 9 | Some provision was made for the giving of legal advice by salaried solicitors outside the ambit of private practice in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 , but the part of the Act which would have established full-time paid solicitors located at the Legal Aid Area Headquarters and travelling to smaller places was never brought into force . |
| 10 | However , by 1984 a stream of continental ecologists were visiting FoE 's headquarters and appearing at conferences to remark that , so far as they were concerned , the trees looked much the same in Britain as they did in West Germany . |
| 11 | Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that . |
| 12 | However , holiday expenditure rose by twenty four percent and spending on overseas trips rose by fifty percent . |
| 13 | But the chairman still has to meet star centre Graeme Hallas , who is on the transfer list at £180,000 and talking to three other clubs . |
| 14 | Weekends would be spent " Specialing " ; taking services in various corps and talking about the work . |
| 15 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 16 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 17 | After all , private-sector returns have been above 5% and rising for the past five years . |
| 18 | The loose bundle of phenomena , including such disparate occurrences as unruly behaviour of large crowds at sporting events , destruction of or damage to public property by juveniles , disturbing trends in crime statistics and overcrowding in prisons , is frequently referred to as the problem of ‘ law and order ’ and by that designation is placed within a particular set of priorities and linked generalisations about the proper structure of society , typically one in which the respect for law and the maintenance of public order have a particularly high value . |
| 19 | Adish Sadik , 27 , of Chadburn Road , Norton , Stockton , admitted two charges of driving motor car exceeding 70mph and driving without due care and attention , fined £250 plus £40 costs , licence endorsed , nine points . |
| 20 | Interest paid was down from £3.1m to £1.2m and gearing at the year-end was 9 per cent . |
| 21 | When exposed to sudden changes in medium osmolality , cells behave initially as osmometers , swelling in hypo-osmotic media and shrinking in hyperosmotic media . |
| 22 | The system will also be sold as a Microsoft Corp NT server , starting at £22,000 and going to £34,500 . |
| 23 | The drug squad launched a massive operation costing £17,000 and resulting in 112 arrests — some made by ‘ rozzers ’ disguised as hippies ! — while the manager of the nearby Caversham Bridge Hotel barricaded his premises with 12-foot-high chain fencing . |
| 24 | Prices will be user-banded , irrespective of platform , starting at £150 and rising to around £400 per seat . |
| 25 | Normal subjects experienced a range of sensations during inflation of a rectal balloon , starting with an initial perception at volumes of around 10 ml and ranging through sensations of wind and desire to defecate to pain when the inflation was stopped . |
| 26 | On Friday , 13 powerful explosions ripped through Bombay , India 's commercial and business capital , killing 250 people and injuring at least 1,200 . |
| 27 | The modern actuary is far more likely to be a well-rounded individual , meeting people and advising on vital aspects of corporate development , than buried in a statistical department . |
| 28 | Nor would the captain 's off-field obligations cause Hastings concern , for his work with the Carnegie Partnership carries a PR type of role , part of which involves meeting people and dealing with clients and the media as well as assisting his old school , Watson 's College , and his club , Watsonians , in a business capacity . |
| 29 | Agreeing a philosophy and getting agreement from the private sector on a philosophy is a matter of getting round the table with people and getting into those kind of discussions . |
| 30 | Idriss Deby , having evaded capture after the failed coup , was by August 1989 the effective leader of the main military challenge to Habre , based on the Zaghawa people and operating in Darfur , an area straddling the border with Sudan . |