Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As political life became dominated by people who were in it as a career , the shires felt betrayed . |
| 2 | The animals used weighed between 5g and 12g . |
| 3 | Every one of the bream we caught weighed within 2oz of 4lb , the biggest at 4lb 2oz and the smallest at 3lb 14oz . |
| 4 | Because they were concerned about rumours they 'd heard of staff shortages within the C E D G. |
| 5 | It seemed filled with people — officers , clerks , a constable . |
| 6 | Fond of the good life , they came armed with salmon , whisky and champagne . |
| 7 | I mean not many people who 'd clashed with mrs thatcher did survive . |
| 8 | For higher rate taxpayers , outside the PEP they will face a marginal tax rate of £18.75 compared compared with £15 currently . |
| 9 | By and large , the Assembly became populated by people who went to Strasbourg because they were interested in Europe and unity , while ministers have represented national governments to which they are responsible . |
| 10 | Expenditure on TV in the year after BBC2 started increased from £27.6 million to £35.8 million ( BBC , 1966 , p. 194 ) . |
| 11 | Capital employed increased from £152000 to £591 000 , and the return on capital employed , ( ROCE ) from only 30% in 1982 to 74% by 1984 . |
| 12 | She knew perfectly well he 'd been trying to hide the fact that he 'd come alive as the streets had filled with people . |
| 13 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 14 | Looking on the bright side , Mayor Edgar Nunez said tourism had jumped by 60pc . |
| 15 | The price had soared to 250p before crashing last year . |
| 16 | Last April , The Scotsman revealed Treasury figures which estimated that the cost of the jetty , originally budgeted at £119 million , had soared by £155 million , to £274 million , and that the project was a year late . |
| 17 | The centrepiece of the McCarty-Cooper sale , the estimates had fluctuated between $10 million and $5.5 million since Christie 's announced the sale back in September . |
| 18 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 20 | In 1974-75 , the last Labour Government spent £1,425 million in real terms at 1991-92 prices ; by 1978-79 , that had fallen to £918 million . |
| 21 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |
| 22 | In 1986 this had fallen to 9% . |
| 23 | The orientation and position of the model was refined as a rigid body in X-plor ; after this procedure the R -factor had fallen to 30% . |
| 24 | Ronson told bankers that the March 31 accounts would show net assets had fallen to £135 million compared with £585 million previously . |
| 25 | By Oct. 24 it had fallen to $29.10 , only to turn upwards again ( following the apparent failure of the Soviet initiative ) and reach $34.95 as of Nov.1 . |
| 26 | Over the first period of study ( 1978–83 ) , hospital mortality was 9% , while over the second period ( 1984–8 ) it had fallen to 4% ( Fisher 's exact test : p=0.4 ) . |
| 27 | The duties had fallen to 5% . |
| 28 | By September 1943 ( when Italy surrendered ) the proportion of people who felt mass unemployment was inevitable had fallen to 19% . |
| 29 | Guy Routh calculated that in 1931 34% of higher professionals were self-employed or employers ; by 1971 this had fallen to 16% . |
| 30 | Profits of £30 million in 1990 had fallen to £20 million last year . |