Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he warned that any compensation paid to satisfy the Ombudman 's requirements , would squeeze funds set aside to help people with disabilities . |
| 2 | As an engineer in California observed in the aftermath of the state 's 1989 quake : ‘ Earthquakes do n't kill people . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Provided rents do not exceed £3,250 a year , they will be fully exempt . |
| 7 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Small Companies Rate applies where profits do not exceed £250,000 with marginal relief up to profits of £1,250,000 . |
| 16 | A lot of local authorities which have not set up criteria for assessments do n't have staff specifically to do them . ’ |
| 17 | Offensive odours do however put people in a ‘ bad mood ’ . |
| 18 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 19 | Councillors have now told staff to submit a full planning application . |
| 20 | The fact that Governors need only pay £20 flabbergasted me … anyone desiring the privilege of that title should certainly be asked to contribute £50pa . |
| 21 | The printed collections of 1640 and 1646 in which Rossi 's cantatas and canzoni appear also contain works by the Mazzocchi brothers and Marco Marazzoli , all three of whom belonged , like Rossi himself , to the circle who enjoyed the patronage of the Barberini family ( see p. 313 ) . |
| 22 | Socialists do n't like people choosing , for they might not choose socialism . ’ |
| 23 | Huy himself , who had had to adapt to the new world constructed after Akhenaten 's fall by Horemheb , had learnt above all that ideals do not change people . |
| 24 | Stanford tuition fees have now reached $9000 a year and some students are paying their way through college . |
| 25 | His sales have dipped a bit since Jig , and all the Grafton reissues have rather confused people , but this is new and first-class . |
| 26 | Very few English cooks understand how to prepare squid . |
| 27 | The director 's emoluments must also be included in the bandings in the note to the accounts unless all the directors ' aggregate emoluments do not exceed £60,000 ( Sch 6 para 1 and para 4 , CA 85 ) . |
| 28 | For a great book by a great man , in the original holland-backed boards , collectors do not begrudge £3,000-£4,000 , according to condition . |
| 29 | Dolphins have often rescued people at sea . |