Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But overseas activities plunged from a £1 million profit to a £13.7 million loss , the losses on property development and housing grew by 70 per cent to £17.1 million . |
| 2 | ‘ He looked over his shoulder at me , our eyes met for a split-second , then he rushed off and I screamed . |
| 3 | His swift intake of breath and the shock that flashed across his face mirrored her own as their eyes locked in a split-second of naked honesty . |
| 4 | Both the nouveau roman and structuralism were able to find nourishment and encouragement in their parallel activities and in the polemical tactics both movements employed as a means of furthering their broadly similar aims . |
| 5 | Natural curls cut into a bob , swept back for evening . |
| 6 | My theory is that living in Lincolnshire most roads consist of hundred yard straights followed by a 90° bend to the right then another hundred yard straight and a 90° bend to the left — just to go round somebody 's field — in fact if it was n't for the drainage ditches you could travel in straight lines — assuming you have a Land Rover that is . |
| 7 | This not only clears away the excessive mucus , but also kills many of the parasites associated with a fluke infestation i.e. Whitespot , Trichodina Costia and Chilodonella . |
| 8 | Maps shown on a graphics screen can be output to a dot-addressable printer using a screendump program . |
| 9 | In October 1981 when the USSR recognised Malta 's new international status the two states agreed on a series of measures to reduce tensions in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 11 | Machine guns , shotguns and rifles were among the weapons recovered in a series of raids on homes in Milton Keynes , Northamptonshire and other parts of the country . |
| 12 | Headed by Barry White , Area Sales Manager and aided and abetted by Sales Managers Colin Harrison and Bob Harris , the brief was to take these sales-hungry technicians and introduce them into the intricacies involved in a sales career . |
| 13 | The particularity derives , I shall argue , from their being poems imagined for a series of concrete life-situations ; in literary-critical terms they are examples of that minimal dramatic form , the monologue . |
| 14 | The Australian government has placed 49 per cent of Qantas , worth Pounds 640m , on offer , with foreign investors limited to a 25% holding . |
| 15 | The abbey he lorded was essentially a preserve for the well-endowed ; thirty or so monks surrounded by a staff of several hundred servants , controlling the life of a substantial area . |
| 16 | She cut corners , gave them short-term memories borrowed from a pair of marshals she had Dreamed for Neutrino Junction , and had them limit their thoughts to immediate matters . |
| 17 | ARMY experts dealt with a series of hoax IRA bomb alerts at police stations throughout Belfast early today . |
| 18 | On the issue of emergency urban aid , a subject which had become an urgent priority following the Los Angeles riots at the end of April [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , Senate and House conferees agreed on a $2,000 million relief package on June 5 . |
| 19 | For instance , the analysis of the metal alloys used in a series of silver brooches from Howletts ( Kent ) and Chessell Down indicate strong similarities in their alloys . |
| 20 | However it was broken down into sub-categories and these revealed non-completion rates of around 25% for those entering with ONC/OND or with no qualifications compared with a 15% non-completion rate for those with ‘ standard ’ qualifications . |
| 21 | Hundreds of prisoners were unconditionally released or had their prison terms reduced after a series of six public pardons issued by Hassan . |
| 22 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 23 | The teacher 's skill in reading is similar to her colleague 's skill — Jim who plays the guitar , and who can engage a whole school with three chords learned in a folk club in Hitchin twenty years ago and his performance of Tom Paxton 's ‘ Marvellous Toy ’ . |
| 24 | This machine resembled a set of assembly-lines along which orders passed through a series of check-points . |
| 25 | Most days Jo left the house with her breasts strapped into a brassiere that had been tailored for her by her mother 's corsetière , two thick white cotton cones attached to a four-inch band , meagrely edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 26 | Unions are to fight the moves announced in a £1 million cost-cutting package . |
| 27 | Composite topics may therefore be represented by subject headings followed by a series of subdivisions . |
| 28 | Her drenched hair stranded her face , her pale lilac dress clung to her body , her eyelashes divided like a starfish as he pulled her out a second time . |
| 29 | Losing bets helped towards a £2OO donation to the Tadworth Court Children 's Hospital . |
| 30 | The symptoms shown by a fish suffering from swimbladder disease are limited . |