Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Lineker transfer , quoting from Mr Sugar 's sworn statement , Mr Mann said : ‘ Another example of Mr Venables ’ so called mastery of the transfer system was when I realised Tottenham were only receiving £850,000 for Lineker , as opposed to the £4m that I understood we were to get . |
| 2 | Recent calls by the Home Office Minister , John Patten , for those who are successful to give three hours a week to voluntary causes could be taken more seriously if overall government policy were not pushing people in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | He went on to refute claims that CAP reform would result in more part time farmers and instead offered the suggestion that present farm policies were already driving people off the land . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend 's constituents were often paying £2,000 on their houses , whether or not they could afford it , and whether or not they were widows or pensioners . |
| 5 | ‘ Mother said we were n't to ask people for things . ’ |
| 6 | If the firm were simply to invest £50,000 on the capital market it would only produce a zero NPV . |
| 7 | Three major companies were then producing 83% of American cars : Ford , General Motors and , the most recent , Chrysler . |
| 8 | Thomas Carter returned from school at 4.30 and was straightaway despatched half-a-mile to the only shop for 28lb of coal . |
| 9 | He was in the grip of severe constipation and was only eating fruit in an effort to clear himself out . |
| 10 | ‘ All that rigmarole about the house being a haunted house was just to keep people from inquiring if they saw any signs of William Egan 's habitation ? ’ |
| 11 | He was just hurting people for his own amusement . |
| 12 | But the original intention was not to shift people from one setting to another on the cheap ; the emphasis was on quality . |
| 13 | He was forever correcting people about pronunciations and points of grammar very pedantic about how things should be said and done . ’ |
| 14 | A Scarborough man was yesterday fined £50 by magistrates after admitting stealing a brake spanner worth £3.89 from Halfords Superstore on Seamer Road . |
| 15 | The Habitat store chain was yesterday fined £8,800 at Basingstoke for overcharging . |
| 16 | FORMER England soccer star Trevor Brooking was yesterday fined £600 for driving at 96mph on a 70mph dual carriageway . |
| 17 | Khalid Hussein was yesterday fined £1,700 with £399 costs by Teesside Magistrates . |
| 18 | A PRIVATE detective was yesterday fined £150 for stealing a national newspaper executive 's rubbish . |
| 19 | Wimbledon keeper Hans Segers was yesterday fined £150 after admitting speeding on a motorway at 97mph . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones ( above ) was yesterday offering £1,000 at evens from his own oversubscribed wallet that his man Michael Fallon would retain the Darlington marginal . |
| 21 | A GIRL Friday who quit her job because she could not trust her boss to leave her alone was yesterday awarded £2,390 for sex discrimination . |
| 22 | You 'd be right , of course : Citroens which have lost the use of their hydropneumatic systems are sorry beasts , best taken to one side and shot in the neck ; and I 'll admit I was once charged £300 for a new water pump for a CX model , but this is no reason to dismiss them . |
| 23 | Pilot William Stewart was later fined £2,000 for criminal negligence . |
| 24 | A debtor whose goods were seized to pay a debt was also charged £70 for the bailiff 's van which collected the goods even though the van was already in the neighbourhood . |
| 25 | Robert Dummett of Bedford Road , Bootle , was also fined £8 for not returning five books , ordered to pay £25 in library fines , £45 compensation and £25 costs . |
| 26 | He was also fined £50 for the attack on the boy and ordered to pay £20 costs . |
| 27 | The 28-year-old Old Etonian was also fined £533,000 for conspiracy to steal £1.2 million from the gemstones firm of which he was an executive director . |
| 28 | fish counter assistant , was also awarded £500 for her help with the community . |
| 29 | According to the excited murmurs of my fellow conferencees , Leonard Nimoy was supposedly paid $3m for this short appearance . |
| 30 | NEIL FOSTER , recalled by England for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's this week , was today fined £250 by his county Essex for his ‘ stump kicking ’ outburst . |