Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 2 | The scheme will use up LWT 's £50m of cash and bring in £72.5m of borrowings . |
| 3 | ‘ These workshops bring in people of mixed physical and mental disabilities , who are usually excluded from these sort of things . |
| 4 | They bring together people with a shared experience of suffering the same problems . |
| 5 | Some projects did attempt to establish trade union links at grassroots level : organisations like Coventry Workshop bring together people from a range of causes and struggles in a common endeavour to build connections and analyse the wider context . |
| 6 | They are among the most important disseminators of plant seeds ; and they eat perhaps 90% of the corpses of small animals . |
| 7 | We send up data about ourselves and our problems . |
| 8 | We send up data about others and their problems . |
| 9 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 10 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 11 | These two supply about 1% of Manchester 's needs . |
| 12 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 13 | Private cars guzzle about 7% of the world 's commercial ( non-industrial ) energy or 17% of the oil used each year . |
| 14 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |
| 15 | So expect around £6000 for the most basic 1-litre car rising to around £9000 for a GT model . |
| 16 | Assuming that the ultimate disclosure is made at the same time under either rule , they receive only $50 for their share without insider trading . |
| 17 | Sweat Jeans cost only £30 from BSCO stockists nationwide — call 081 451 2155 for details . |
| 18 | Woolwich Tabernacle , erected between 1895 and 1896 , sat 1,690 but cost only £13,936 for both the land and the building . |
| 19 | As the advert said , ‘ The average price of a tab of Ecstasy is £15 — yet Love Hearts cost only £4.95 for a packet of three — just one tenth of the designer drug equivalent . ’ |
| 20 | Taxi rides are cheapest in Portugal , where the cabbies charge only 18p for a one-mile city trip . |
| 21 | The weekend courses cost approximately £160 per person plus VAT , inclusive of literature and full board . |
| 22 | We used the Shaders & Toners range which cost just 59p per sachet . |
| 23 | We charge just £1.00 per person for this fascinating look backstage . |
| 24 | What I do is place two or three handfuls of biscuit into a polythene bag , then mix about 20ml of a favourite bait flavour into half a cup of lukewarm water . |
| 25 | If the puncture is in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it at the puncture site , and remove about 20mm of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a compression fitting . |
| 26 | Vets who cut out 10ft of his gut to cure colic on November 25 gave him a less than even chance of survival . |
| 27 | Our laboratory had been routinely screening with probes cf56a , cf56b , and 9–7 , which cover about 93% of deletions in our population . |
| 28 | They cost about £60 from pro shops , and all good sport and department stores . |
| 29 | Comfort 41 rose-tinted lenses cost about £20 on order from most opticians — add £10 for prescription lenses . |
| 30 | The offer could save schools up to £1,500 a year in exam fees , which currently cost about £15 per entry . |