Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Metropolitan Area Networks could form a market worth $2,000m worldwide by the end of the century , Siemens AG reckons : the company believes that hardware spending on the systems could soar , while customers using the systems could generate a further $10,000m of business : the remarks were made at a conference to announce a £3m order won by GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd , in which Siemens owns 40% , to supply metropolitan area equipment to British Telecommunications Plc , Reuter reports . |
| 2 | We took about £150m out of the operating companies over a couple of years |
| 3 | Commercial savings banks , used primarily but by no means exclusively by the working class — they attracted many lower-middle-class savers — expanded rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Mr Major is by no means out of the woods , and must fight to defend his leadership at a crisis Cabinet meeting to be called early today . |
| 5 | He is , of course , exceptional , but his sharp perception of the way in which teachers orient their expectations of black kids and his response to that perception was by no means out of the ordinary . |
| 6 | She will be able to give you a great deal too , if you are prepared to open your mind to her memories and experience of life , realising the significance of her ‘ past ’ to your ‘ present ’ ; and when you understand that the old are by no means always on the receiving end of their relationships , then you are ready to assemble the love , time , patience and energy you have to offer , and decide on the best way of presenting them . |
| 7 | The decisions must be made where the knowledge is and this is by no means always in the manager 's office . |
| 8 | With increased availability , pricing has dropped to a street price of $999 apiece for the 36MHz and $1,399 apiece for the 40MHz in quantities of 1,000 — quite different from the $1,900 price it gave The Microprocessor Report for the 40MHz back in December ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 9 | In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil . |
| 10 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 11 | The majority of these new catfish have come from the Amazon , which probably has the most diverse population of fish anywhere in the world . |
| 12 | We have had problems with nitrates and so we removed some of the fish ( 36″ in all ) , leaving a total of 131″ of fish still in the tank . |
| 13 | Three practices had employed an extra member of staff either during the first year or at the beginning of the second to work specifically on fundholding duties or to release the practice manager to do this . |
| 14 | The wives of both branch deputies have given birth recently with two members of management pregnant and six members of staff all in the ‘ Newbury club ’ . |
| 15 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 16 | not too bad had a couple of people round in the last week and one seems quite keen |
| 17 | It is salutary to reflect on the fact that decisions taken and qualifications awarded now could affect the mobility of people well into the twenty first century . |
| 18 | What sort of people apart from the |
| 19 | Comité de forces vives , brought tens of thousands of people on to the streets of the capital , Antananarivo , each day from June 10 to the end of the month to demonstrate for far-reaching political reforms . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe that in BNFL we have the very highest calibre of people right through the organisation . |
| 21 | Empirically however , the last century has been dominated by a major movement of people away from the countryside , although in the past 10 or 20 years there has been a significant repopulation of rural areas . |
| 22 | And as the Western media talks about a 3rd World War starting in the Gulf , millions of people all over the world know that the Third World War started long before the battle in the Gulf . |
| 23 | But although her books are read by millions of people all over the world she 's never had a fan club … until now . |
| 24 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 25 | But her caressable curves and wondering eyes and hushed baby voice dominated the pleasanter fantasies of people all round the world . |
| 26 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 27 | The Gulf crisis brought to public attention the very large numbers of non-nationals working in the Middle East states , but there are also large non-national populations in the member states of the European Community and there is likely to be a large movement of people out of the USSR and the Eastern European countries into Western Europe now that the borders are relatively open . |
| 28 | So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors . |
| 29 | There were hordes of people down by the sea-front . |
| 30 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |