Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BAD debts at Southern Water more than doubled to £2.7m in the first six months to end-September , when profits rose 8% to Pounds 60m . |
| 2 | Income from eugenics equals income from arms sales . ’ |
| 3 | Oracle notes that its $1,200m turnover for fiscal 1992 included $240m in tools sales , making it the leading independent vendor of application development tools , and Oracle claims that Co-operative Development Environment coupled with the Oracle7 Co-operative Server Database enables its installed base to upgrade existing applications to a graphical client-server environment . |
| 4 | Clines , 62 , a former Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) agent , was convicted on four counts of having failed to disclose $260,000 in arms sales profits on his income tax returns and of failing to file reports on foreign financial accounts in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 5 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |