Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cheque for £99,999,999 spewed out by Great Aycliffe Town Council 's computer had already been signed once when it was spotted by council leader Arun Chandran . |
| 2 | Both national networks and international pipelines for data focus heavily on intra-company , intra-organizational , or intra-industry , communications . |
| 3 | Optical scanning devices have become increasingly used for data capture either via some sort of bar coding system such as is commonly found at library issue desks , or by means of equipment able to read pencil markings at specified positions on a sheet of paper ( ‘ mark sensing ’ ) . |
| 4 | Of air too thick for aircraft to fall out of . |
| 5 | On this line of reasoning , two humans mentioned separately might be good for plural reference , while a human and an animal will be less good ( although plural reference is by no means ruled out in many cases ) . |
| 6 | Clearly , more research needs to be done , but the main point is that the assumption that people with common political aims and grievances will definitely form pressure groups within the liberal democratic context is by no means borne out by the evidence . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're by no means sold out for every performance , in spite of Gesner . |
| 8 | However , we can by no means stick slavishly to such a rule , for good harmonic flow needs variety in spacing intervals , and in any case we may wish to avoid smooth harmony and have something pungent , harsh , and bitter . |
| 9 | GHI Advice : If you 'd like a copy of Practical Guide for Asthmatics , send a cheque for £1.75 made out to the Good Housekeeping Institute ( Asthma ) , 72 Broadwick St , London W1V 2BP . |
| 10 | Both are good investments , insulation costing £150 will will save you £60 to £70 a year , while draft-proofing worth £83 saves up to £40 a year . |
| 11 | We telephoned from our mobile to theirs — probably at a combined speed of 100mph going away from each other — and it was indeed us who were hotfooting it away from the airport . |
| 12 | The case of Copeman v Coleman ( 1939 ) 22 TC 594 concerned a company which was formed in 1933 with a capital of £1,000 owned equally by the respondent and his wife . |
| 13 | As they moved along the route she became aware of birds singing in the trees , and of sheep grazing peacefully in the fields . |
| 14 | The damage became obvious in 1957 when the Midland lost its coveted position as Britain 's largest bank Barclays ' deposits of £1,346m edged ahead of the Midland 's £1,342m . |
| 15 | The firm 's estimated successful assignment completion rate of 80% compares well with other leading firms . |
| 16 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 17 | It was just like the tube back at work in Witwaterstrand , vertical strings of graffiti dripping unsuccessfully in multi-coloured smears . |
| 18 | Creeping to the windows of the married quarters in which she was still living since her husband 's sudden and secret posting , she looked up to see a mass of twinkling red , green and white lights , as wave after wave of aircraft passed overhead with unceasing regularity , making the earth shake beneath them as they roared southwards to the English Channel . |
| 19 | The column stopped abruptly and when the noise of aircraft climbing away from the raid faded into the distance there was a short silence during which only the chug-chug of many stationary vehicles could be heard . |
| 20 | First , the collection of data depends heavily on published financial accounts which are produced for the quite different purpose of minimising company taxation , with corresponding differences in the definition of capital . |
| 21 | RISC I was successful in reducing the number of data accesses substantially in all programs . |
| 22 | Waves of data seethed in at her filtered through recognition systems that had never been hers . |
| 23 | I can not speak for others , such as those at the Survey of English Usage , who are doubtless still exploring the motorways of data opened up through this technique . |
| 24 | Wolfe led his troops up the cliffs on to the Plains of Abraham which commanded Quebec from the west , and so there emerged the unusual sight of infantry lined up in the formal European manner on North American soil . |
| 25 | But , in order to buy rather than rent their own homes , Britain 's nine million home buyers now have to borrow an average of £37,000 — more than twice the average income — whereas 10 years ago the average loan of £11,800 worked out at 1.7 times income . |
| 26 | In schools the increasing number of para.professionals creeping in under the resources umbrella have understandably aroused suspicions in teachers ' union branches . |
| 27 | The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out . |
| 28 | Three hundred tons of fish arrived daily from the western fishing ports . |
| 29 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 30 | Forensic evidence blown , a mouthful of sperm washed down by third-rate coffee . |