Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not , say 61% , although 23% admit to an occasional twinge of envy . |
| 2 | Commenting on storming first quarter figures ( page five ) Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California says the improvement was primarily due to continued strong worldwide demand for AutoCad Release 12 , especially in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions — revenues in the Far East rose more than 25% compared with the year earlier , while revenues in the Americas rose more than 50% . |
| 3 | Although data relating to the seasonal distribution of runoff are limited , there are indications that post-drought recharge rates of forest soils are reduced and that more rapid flood response is characteristic of all stages of the rotation cycle when compared with non-afforested catchments ( Binns 1986 ) . |
| 4 | They were astonished to hear that in Britain it costs more than £3 to go to the cinema ( a Filipino obsession ) , when it costs only 3p in Dapitan , and to learn that teenage girls in Britain could go on a date with their boyfriends without a chaperone ; something disapproved of on Mindanao ) . |
| 5 | A SNOWSTORM of money threw a city street into chaos yesterday when more than £150,000 fell off the back of an armoured car . |
| 6 | As it was , the couple from Dunbartonshire had to sell their Mazda car to meet the contribution of more than £600 demanded under the old system . |
| 7 | Firstly , spurious makes of knives can vary in weight by more than 40g compared with the recommended ones . |
| 8 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 9 | They have allowed their care in the community policy for ex-mental patients to amount to no more than people drifting within a community of hostels , in which one finds people who have fallen through the safety net and ended up homeless on the streets . |
| 10 | In March , Northampton won a two-month breather from a winding-up order on more than £13,000 owed to a printing firm . |
| 11 | The near £5m annual budget was in surplus for the year by more than £139,000 swelled by a £53,000 surplus from previous years to almost £193,000 . |
| 12 | On the computer systems business , Platt said orders for Unix systems grew more than 40% compared to the previous quarter 's level . |
| 13 | No one of the three communities A , B and C would be willing to pay more than £300 to join in a group scheme , since they could go it alone for £300 . |
| 14 | What did it matter if fish died after a few weeks ? |
| 15 | However , if staff led by a head and one or two senior colleagues worked their way through these tasks ( and it might be more likely that senior staff themselves would have drafted the audit and put it forward for discussion , alteration and approval by others ) , they would be familiar with most of the important issues concerning the national curriculum . |
| 16 | Even if people stay in the same rank order , the argument runs that the only way to make ‘ have-nots ’ into ‘ haves ’ is via economic growth , to which high taxation and transfers are seen as inimical . |
| 17 | If people hear about the boy , he thought , perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep . |
| 18 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
| 19 | It 's like , cos if people look through the door , yeah they 'll see it |
| 20 | Accepting that if people learn on the job then they must have demands and challenges in their work |
| 21 | ‘ If people start with the right attitude then there will be no problem . ’ |
| 22 | What are some of the clues if you like that tell us if people behave in an assertive , aggressive , passive way what are some of the other clues take that away from us ? |
| 23 | Well , for me yes , because erm there are now things like the Independent Living Fund , things like that , if people fit into the right boxes and contact the right people , then they can get some sort of help but I mean , it 's still an absolute maze out there for anybody who does n't have that sort of back up . |
| 24 | in 1992 , everything ( apparently ) starts with a D. With D-Ream and D-Influence leading the new D-Mobs , it would be a shame if people passed over the name D*Note . |
| 25 | Secondly , if gentry support for the Whigs had really begun to disintegrate , then they would have soon collapsed as a political force , since the bulk of the political nation comprised the landed interest . |
| 26 | While data relating to the known user population are important , they can not alone define the extent of total heroin use in a given community ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 27 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 28 | While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose . |
| 29 | Another intriguing question is whether people congregated at the Cocks because it was a crossroads or because a public house there provided warmth . |
| 30 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |