Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [n mass] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial services including pensions and life insurance subsidiary Allied Dunbar , whose Liverpool office is one of the country 's best performers saw trading profits leap to £376m in the nine months from £142m . |
| 2 | Advice lines 2–4.30 pm weekdays ) Information Unit offers support for people in mental distress and their families . |
| 3 | We can lift the telephone and speak to people in Australia . |
| 4 | It seems to work in here , because er the carpet industry , if you speak , speak to people in different firms , say they all work the same way , it seems to work on a |
| 5 | Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain . |
| 6 | Design of the study — " before and after " We look at people in hospital , hopefully before they get into any rehabilitation programme but that 's not always been possible . |
| 7 | But on average you will find er and you look at people in the pub you look in the bar tonight at the people having conversations and see how many symmetrical hand gestures there are . |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |
| 9 | Long-term profits of $14.6m compare with $15.5m in the first half of last year , but UK life operations make further strong progress |
| 10 | ‘ He has to suffer constant insults and talk from people in the neighbourhood and children and threats from some of the older relatives of children . ’ |
| 11 | In the main , sporting accidents affect young adults ; the more challenging and potentially dangerous sports inevitably appeal to people in that age group . |
| 12 | We need the winds everywhere and we rely on people in Florida state to take these very sparse observations and turn them into a map which covers the whole surface of the tropical Pacific . |
| 13 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 14 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
| 15 | What is needed today is that sum which , invested , will with interest amount to £100 in one year . |
| 16 | What is needed today is that sum which , invested , will with interest amount to £100 in one year . |
| 17 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 18 | That 's helped the company , facing losses of £98,000 a year ago , turn in £401,000 in profits . |
| 19 | Yes , but they differ from people in Saudi Arabia or from southern Iraq because of their language , or because of their race , or their religion ? |
| 20 | Aimed at inventory and medical record management markets , prices go from $400 in October . |
| 21 | ‘ For some cases , we 'd come back day after day , and chat to people in the queue . |
| 22 | But Mr Clarke 's belief that travellers prey on people in country areas suggests they could be facing harsh government sanctions |
| 23 | If you think about people in very large numbers , you can divide them into groups in a variety of ways : age groups , different sexes , marital status , numbers of children , where they live , what they do , how much they earn , how many GCSEs they have , whether they own a car or a colour TV , the colour of their skin … the list is , in practice , endless , especially if you add in ( say ) readers of Punch , or buyers of Beecham 's pills . |
| 24 | If they 're the seventies , think of people in kipper ties on the O U and flares and things like that . |
| 25 | One MEP has calculated that if you start with £100 in Britain and change this sum successively into each of the Community s eleven currencies , you would only have £50 by the final transaction . |
| 26 | The Board affords 10.5 days per annum leave to staff in respect of public holidays and privilege holidays . |
| 27 | Prices start at $3,500 in quantities of 100 , which ship from the fourth quarter . |
| 28 | He insisted that the field staff return to headquarters in the winter and this resulted in their having more contact with senior officers and colleagues . |
| 29 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 30 | Sales on some of the apartments , which start from £300,000 and rise to £500,000 in price , have already been agreed . |