Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland eventually benefited greatly from Union with England in 1707 , but in the heyday of nineteenth-century expansion large parts of the western and northern periphery of Britain remained bitterly poor : the clearance of people to make way for sheep caused large-scale migration from the highlands and islands of Scotland , and a large part of the population of Ireland was forced to emigrate through the scarcity of food . |
| 2 | by no means had this state of affairs been brought about by presidents alone . |
| 3 | If there was not much coherent intellectual opposition to the left 's proposals , this by no means signified tacit support but rather a belief that the pressure of ‘ realities ’ in government would soon dispel the fancies of opposition . |
| 4 | And yet he by no means wanted this responsibility . |
| 5 | INDONESIA has blocked access to sex hotlines from Hong Kong after MPs said such telephone calls could damage morals in the mainly Muslim country , the state telecommunications company said today . |
| 6 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 7 | Anyone entitled to free legal aid who is then a party to an appeal against a care or supervision order will qualify for non-means tested legal aid in respect of the appeal subject to a merits test . |
| 8 | ‘ Producers were prepared to pay good money for quality stock and the number of sheep sold this year was higher than in 1990 . ’ |
| 9 | Two pots of cineraria caused further incredulity . |
| 10 | Also requested is the number of fish caught this trip , the location , and the general conditions mentioned above , though any of these may be excluded as required . |
| 11 | The disproportionate population of samurai attracted vast numbers of retailers , craftsmen and servants to service the large and wealthy consumer market . |
| 12 | RESTRUCTURING and redundancy costs of £1.02bn pushed troubled oil giant BP deep into a loss of £594m for the nine months to end-September , the company said yesterday . |
| 13 | The estimated cost of £22,000 provoked considerable discussion on how it should be financed , for many members felt increasingly perturbed about personally improving an investment which belonged to others , namely the bondholders . |
| 14 | ( Another member of staff related similar comments from third year girls after reading Kes and Lord of the Flies . ) |
| 15 | Forty members of staff celebrated 25 years of service at a luncheon , hosted by the Principal , on 31 May at the Court Room . |
| 16 | Similarly , the Chiefs of Staff showed little appreciation of the economic context . |
| 17 | Of course the female members of staff found these suggestions inappropriate office attire . |
| 18 | ‘ A group of people made this Star Zoo . |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter . |
| 20 | I do n't know , maybe they erm a , they 'll listen to the tapes and they probably sample some of the words into a computer to build up a database of words that probably like you said , oh he 's getting a lot of jip from his boss , you know , is probably not in the dictionary but if a lot of people said that word then they would . |
| 21 | A lot of people said last year that I should n't have had a factory bike , so I was happy that my early results demonstrated I was worthy of an NSR . |
| 22 | the number of people served each afternoon |
| 23 | the number of people served each morning for a week |
| 24 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 25 | Undoubtedly a number of people travelled this way from other parts of Kent and Sussex , probably more to Rochester than Canterbury . |
| 26 | At Holborough " Knob " in 1954 an excavation carried out by the Ministry of Works uncovered many Roman remains , principally a lead coffin which contained the skeleton of a young child , including interestingly a Patch of flaxen hair . |
| 27 | New ideas such as the transmutation of species acquired political overtones because they symbolized a challenge to the existing power structure both within science and within society at large . |
| 28 | The trust will follow a similar investment strategy to the Hypo Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies unit trust , the top performing authorised fund for the five years to the end of December , with £1,000 invested five years ago now worth £4,348 . |
| 29 | When sterling left the European snake in 1972 , inflation rising above 20% came two years later . |
| 30 | Maintenance of procyclic trypanosomes : T.brucei strain EATRO 1125 were grown at 25-27°C in SDM-79 ( 18 ) , or Cunningham 's , medium ( 19 ) , supplemented with 15% inactivated foetal calf serum and 10 µg ml -1 gentamycin . |