Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] of [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Amazonia , flies pollinate flowers of species of Aristolochia ( Aristolochiaceae ) and some orchids , and midges pollinate cocoa , in the decaying fruits of which they breed . |
| 2 | In the same period last year , the company made interim profits of £17.2 million . |
| 3 | Thus , if the range $12500-$17500 receives total income of $200 billion and is allocated $70 billion of taxes and $60 billion of expenditure , its tax rate is 35 per cent and its ‘ net ’ position is -5 per cent . |
| 4 | Lep Group , the transport business which is attracting increasing US investment , fell 16p to 149p after it announced interim profits of £9.5m against £5m . |
| 5 | But that should be offset by recovery from the bathroom and heating companies which made little-changed profits of £42.6m last year . |
| 6 | Last year IDG reported $431m in sales net of commissions to its ad-space salesmen , and made after-tax profits of $25m . |
| 7 | Labour spokesmen made generous use of statistics to castigate the government for refusing to spend more money on science , and for letting Britain slip down the international league table on R&D spending . |
| 8 | The Greenland fishermen will be allowed to go on catching 12 tons of salmon a year for subsistence purposes . |
| 9 | The growth of the middle classes as industrialization became , got under way , men , more men earned their money , so instead of having two classes , the working class and the upper class who spent their lives in leisure , in idleness , you got another class of people who had to earn their living , but who still made a lot of money . |
| 10 | The firm receives another offer of £350 for the goods , accepts this offer and is paid immediately . |
| 11 | The urban-rural boundary can be monitored effectively and the cartographic database updated regularly using this combination of data and image processing . |
| 12 | He got up to fetch a cloth to wipe the tiny mess , at the same time bringing another strip of herring which Eyvør accepted daintily before tucking its small unpuffin-like beak into its back feathers and dozing off again . |
| 13 | Because the authors were using different types of data , it is quite possible that they have seen different dimensions of an essentially complex process . |
| 14 | Young people will also be encouraged to find effective ways of using different kinds of media in their school , church and community activities . |
| 15 | Late in February 1708 news reached England of a French fleet being assembled at Dunkirk to carry 12 battalions of infantry , plus artillery , to Scotland and having , like his father before him , been presented by Louis XIV with a jewelled sword as a good-luck present , on Thursday 26th ( English style ) James Edward Stuart reached that port , having issued a proclamation denouncing Queen Anne as a usurper . |
| 16 | The Solaris version of Unix uses multitasking , multimedia object management facilities and is able to build true client-server applications , which can be exploited by the Model 116 , which transfers eight bits of data in parallel and also performs byte-to-byte handshaking for increased data integrity . |
| 17 | The Greenland Hunters and Fishermen 's Organisation will be paid US$400,000 for each of the 1993 and 1994 fishing seasons to surrender its right to net 213 tons of salmon a year . |
| 18 | The company has total liabilities of £2.8m and a trading loss of £800,000 . |
| 19 | He demonstrated that supplementation of media with an ‘ essential substance ’ extracted from dead tubercle bacilli permitted growth of Johne 's bacillus and possibly leprosy bacillus . |
| 20 | This must include proper support of staff who work mainly on campaigns , and also rational negotiation of the impact campaigns may have on the priorities and workloads of other sectors and groups . |
| 21 | At the end of October , the company reported third-quarter profits of £93m , compared with £196m last year . |
| 22 | Last month Pearl announced pre-tax profits for the six months ending 30 June of £31.1m , an increase of 8 per cent on the previous year . |
| 23 | You 're on the move every three every three weeks you get to know another group of people . |
| 24 | National Westminster Bancorp reported after-tax profits of $30m ( £17m ) in the first quarter , compared with a $191m loss during the same period last year . |
| 25 | The study concluded that ‘ … combining free-range poultry production with trees could make free-range systems more practicable and profitable and improve the feasibility of keeping some forms of poultry in free-range systems , notably chickens for eggs and meat , and turkeys ’ . |
| 26 | The Intelligent Bus Interface Module is a data acquisition engine with a 40MHz 68030 processor , which resides on the VMEbus , enabling high volumes of data to be transmitted or received independent of the central host processor when it is used with the new input-output board . |
| 27 | This is a very important way of handling statistics , is n't it , in a sense , I mean , if you 're talking about , in another context , if you talk about recidivism , and , and you say forty percent of people who go into prison reoffend within the following five years , that 's the down side , or you could say sixty percent do n't , or sixty percent keep out , and it 's all a question of how you actually phrase it . |
| 28 | Consequently the first problem in tackling this mass of data , comprehending nearly 70,000 names , is to devise a taxonomy capable of transcending the obvious fact that some were richer ( or poorer ) than others — one , moreover , which bears some tangible relationship to the structure of society at the time , and preferably is verifiable in terms of contemporary theory . |
| 29 | Beau Ranger , as expected , has top weight of 12st and must give 24lb to Prize Asset . |
| 30 | Beech Road has top weight of 12st and is set to give 10lb to his aspiring young stable-companion Morley Street , whom the sponsors make 10-1 joint favourite with Mick O'Toole 's Lough Gale . |