Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy advertising has promoted cider as a yuppie drink , rather than a tipple for farmworkers and a succession of warm summers has also boosted sales . |
| 2 | Bishop Cahal Daly has argued that the debate on multi-denominational schools has effectively taken people 's attention away from the central issues in Northern Ireland , namely social injustice , fundamental political inequality , and the violence . |
| 3 | But really this could be a bunch of retarded animals walking round kicking people 's butts . |
| 4 | And he warned that any compensation paid to satisfy the Ombudman 's requirements , would squeeze funds set aside to help people with disabilities . |
| 5 | Finally came men who did not own freehold land : husbandmen , servants in husbandry and the servants of artificers — anyone whose estate in goods and chattels did not exceed £10 . |
| 6 | It is fortunate for the further success of the breed that the liaison between these two animals did not produce fruit , except on one occasion , since the bitch was in fact a long coat , and thus unable to be registered with the ADRK . |
| 7 | As an engineer in California observed in the aftermath of the state 's 1989 quake : ‘ Earthquakes do n't kill people . |
| 8 | No licence is needed for a motor vehicle and drawbar trailer combination if the gross plated weights do not exceed 3500kg , or , if unplated , the total unladen weights do not exceed 1525kg . |
| 9 | No licence is needed for a motor vehicle and drawbar trailer combination if the gross plated weights do not exceed 3500kg , or , if unplated , the total unladen weights do not exceed 1525kg . |
| 10 | If you think books do n't change people , just look at Changez , because undreamed-of possibilities in the sex line suddenly occurred to him , a man recently married and completely celibate who saw Britain as we saw Sweden : as the goldmine of sexual opportunity . |
| 11 | Other bad debts written off totalled £13,840 . |
| 12 | Provided rents do not exceed £3,250 a year , they will be fully exempt . |
| 13 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 14 | In 1992–93 , as the UK recession continued and banks went on reducing staff numbers , things became more difficult for the Institute and many of its members . |
| 15 | The courts first began to take obscenity seriously as a result of private prosecutions brought in the early nineteenth century by the Society for the Suppression of Vice , dubbed by Sydney Smith " a society for suppressing the vices of those whose incomes do not exceed £500 per annum " . |
| 16 | In the county court and High Court , claims for costs must be assessed if they do not exceed £500 and a solicitor may opt for assessment where costs do not exceed £1,000 ( Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 ) . |
| 17 | The paper is much more tentative because some of it is based on evidence which has not always been gathered from studies designed specifically to elicit people 's conceptions in the mind . |
| 18 | The methods used to achieve these aims involved both analysing data collected in the earlier projects ( 1985-87 ) , and investigations during the current project ( 1988 ) . |
| 19 | Because the circumstances of many cattle thefts did not encourage people to initiate prosecutions , the statistics greatly underestimated the extent of the crime . |
| 20 | This is important in order to ensure that patients and their families do not categorise staff members as good or bad depending on their role in the ward — eg , viewing the nurse supervising the nutritional programme as authoritarian and the sympathetic night nurse as a special confidante . |
| 21 | Echoing the logic of the gun lobby ( ‘ guns do n't kill people ; people kill people ’ ) , the company 's chairman argues that the problem is not with his product , but with under-age drinking . |
| 22 | If she is still under 60 when her husband claims his state pension and does not work or her earnings do not exceed £43.1 0 , he should be able to obtain a supplement of around £32.55 to his pension , on the grounds of having a wife to support . |
| 23 | Last term 's fund-raising efforts have now raised £1,048 for the Leukaemia Research Fund — and two sacks of old postage stamps have been sent off to the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Romanian children . |
| 24 | He based his tax cuts on American research by Lindsey that concluded that reductions in the top tax rates to the American Government in 1981/82 were costless as the top 170,000 taxpayers ended up paying $26.6bn under new legislation instead of $26bn under the old . |
| 25 | IF YOUR MONTHLY PAYMENTS ON CREDIT CARDS , STORE CARDS AND PERSONAL LOANS ADD UP TO SAY £200 they could halve them to £100 or even £50 a month . |
| 26 | It also had the effect of materially abridging the business of loan societies , most whose loans did not exceed £20 . |
| 27 | The Small Companies Rate applies where profits do not exceed £250,000 with marginal relief up to profits of £1,250,000 . |
| 28 | A lot of local authorities which have not set up criteria for assessments do n't have staff specifically to do them . ’ |
| 29 | He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory . |
| 30 | Deportations had been , he said , ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory ’ . |