Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 2 | Dr. Prior felt that means of warming the room should be contrived so that the temperature at the commencement of the meal should not fall below 32° Fahrenheit . |
| 3 | And it is also to send out £60,000 worth of equipment to provide back-up for power supplies to textile machinery at a factory on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Lagos . |
| 4 | He also picked up £40 cash . |
| 5 | During the 1980s these quasi-government agencies became a convenient means of off-balance-sheet financing ; so much so that they have now amassed nearly $1 trillion-worth of obligations underwritten by the American taxpayer . |
| 6 | Fretting a string at the first and sixteenth frets simultaneously gives around 0.5mm gap between the string and the top of the ninth fret on the D-18 model , and about 0.7mm on the D-32 . |
| 7 | We even sold over £100 worth of '78s on the first day of the sale ! |
| 8 | The RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening , published last year , sold through even more copies in its first season than its companion volume , The RHS Gardener 's Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers , did when first published in 1989 — but the latter title actually generated over £1.1m turnover during the six-month period . |
| 9 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |