Example sentences of "[is] [adv] a [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's only a £15 charge for infants under the age of 2 on departure if they travel on your lap and share a bedroom with two others . |
| 2 | There 's only a £15 charge for infants under the age of 2 on departure if they travel on your lap and share a bedroom with two others , but they do n't count as a person when you 're working out the yacht prices . |
| 3 | There is thus a 5% difference in the extent of collaboration between an author 's first and subsequent publications . |
| 4 | There is thus a 5% difference in the extent of collaboration between an author 's first and subsequent publications . |
| 5 | Lawrence said : ‘ Wilkinson is not a £3m player but he has worked tremendously hard throughout the season . |
| 6 | The findings , contained in an exclusive ICM Research poll for The Scotsman , are further evidence that the country 's current moral panic is not a media invention but a widespread social concern . |
| 7 | Friends say the flaxen-haired singer is thinking about recording the B 52 's Rock Lobster hit but we reckon that he 's just a shellfish kind of a guy |
| 8 | The whole idea of judging by one hundred days was resurrected in the Kennedy time and people applied that to Wilson and to Heath and to Margaret Thatcher , and maybe it 's just a media hype , but I think it does give us some view and I think we need more of a view on this man , because a lot of people are saying will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 9 | British Gas Somerset District engineers had quite a challenge to install the new gas supply , as the castle is up a 60° gradient hill and then 300 metres of pipe had to ‘ scale ’ ramparts and battlements to the new meter . |
| 10 | There is also a 5% chance any pack animal will shed its load if it spends a turn indulging in this annoying behaviour . |
| 11 | There is also a 50% discount at the Golf Academy . |
| 12 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 13 | The Developer 's Toolkit for OS/2 2.1 contains bindings , tools , sample programs and documentation , and there is also a Multimedia Presentation Manager Toolkit/2 . |
| 14 | The Developer 's Toolkit for OS/2 2.1 contains bindings , tools , sample programs and documentation , and there is also a Multimedia Presentation Manager Toolkit/2 . |
| 15 | ANDY and Fergie 's Dallas-style mansion — dubbed ‘ Southyork ’ by the locals — is now a £1,000-a-day ghost house and should be turned over to the homeless , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | John Maddox , the editor of Nature , wrote in 1982 : ‘ The OED is uniquely a data base … , which will suggest to many that it should by now be stored on a long reel of magnetic tape , floppy disks , or some other means of data storage . |
| 17 | Its plush interior ( full leather trim is about a £1000 option ) is roomy enough for five to sit in comfort . |
| 18 | It is n't a graphics accelerator , but it 's capable of moving at a decent lick when put on a fast bus . |
| 19 | Secondly , this drive is n't a 33Mb drive , it 's a 20Mb one . |
| 20 | For the millionth time : those who would like to set a comp , stop whingeing and send your ideas in — there 's even a £10 prize if it 's chosen . |
| 21 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |
| 22 | In developed countries e.g. in Europe , there is around a 15% chance of a baby born to an HIV positive mother being infected , however in other parts of the world this can rise to 35–40% . |
| 23 | This is where a sales idea could come in , but for the right reasons it could be good , but also , for the bad reasons , it could be totally wrong . |
| 24 | It is essentially a sales tax levied at a percentage of the final price of the product ( 17.5 per cent from 1991 ) , but is collected at each stage in the production process . |