Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 2 | In Kuwait City itself the Iraqi forces met some opposition from elite troops guarding the Amir 's palace and from troops stationed in Army and Air Force barracks situated on the city 's outskirts . |
| 3 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 4 | APEX for Windows 3.1 is priced from $1,200 to $12,000 depending upon the number of clients . |
| 5 | He says he has appreciated every word and gesture , from the plethora of ‘ well done banners ’ to the sheep painted in the team 's colours . |
| 6 | Prices range from about £40 to £60 depending on the dress . |
| 7 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 8 | Available now , Supra Server is priced from $2,000 to $150,000 depending upon the operating system . |
| 9 | The accused who appropriates a grouse hidden by a poacher to be collected later will be guilty of theft ( provided the other elements exist ) , even though he does not intend to sell it in a pub . |
| 10 | In this sense the committee chairman who attempts to hide behind the lack of a definition of pain will , to be consistent , need to be sceptical of the noisy contortions of a cow or sheep crushed by a tractor . |
| 11 | Business property relief reduces the value of business assets for inheritance tax purposes by either 100% or 50% depending on the type of asset or the beneficial interest , and any tax payable can usually be paid by annual interest-free instalments over 10 years while the assets remain unsold . |
| 12 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 13 | As we walked , grouse rose from the heather , calling out in alarm , . |
| 14 | Away from a purely stylistic assessment , the square has great merits , the presence of students locally ( there is another section of the University here ) having resulted in a range of fine restaurants , take-away delicatessens and sandwich bars which the visitor to the centre will find delightful for offering a real Milanese touch to the menu at an affordable price . |
| 15 | Archaeologists have discovered the Jewish headquarters located in a complex of hitherto unexplored caves in the Wadi Phara , six miles north-east of Jerusalem . |
| 16 | There was no one available at the Association Headquarters to comment on the refusal . |
| 17 | A surprising number of accidents and incidents happen because pilots are in some way not 100% fit on the day in question . |
| 18 | The area has been associated with cavalry exercises from the beginning of the 15th century . |
| 19 | In 1493 a battle between the Croats under Ban Mirko Derenčin and a force of 8,000 Turkish cavalry occurred near the town of Udbina in the Lika region . |
| 20 | Dell expects fiscal 1994 sales of between $3,400m and $3,700m and net profit of between $3.30 and $3.75 a share , compared with the $2.59 on sales of just over $2,000m reported for the year just ended . |
| 21 | Even the youngster 's goldfish perished in the blaze at his home in Saltaire , near Bradford . |
| 22 | FLA–01 was one of three such aircraft flown from the Commonwealth of Independent States to the UK for the World Helicopter Championships , to be held at Wroughton during the week following GWAD . |
| 23 | Under option six , called ‘ other goodies ’ , you can analyse the data to report on the success rate at a particular fishing spot , or investigate any one angler 's record , plot water temperature versus the date , or find the full and new moon dates for a given year and month . |
| 24 | And what would happen if one of these aircraft crushed into the power station ? |
| 25 | Input is any data given to a program for the computer to act on . |
| 26 | Table 3.2 Relative proportions of postcranial elements : summary of data given in the Appendix |
| 27 | The drafting of an internal report based on raw data given in the form of graphs , notes , press cuttings , charts , tables , etc . |
| 28 | The suitability and reliability of financial and other management data developed within the organization . |
| 29 | Check that clock pulses have an effect only when the data applied to the D-input is new . |
| 30 | Especially because of all the evidence that different species , and different processes within a single organism , use variants of similar molecular mechanisms to carry out specified tasks , those with the good fortune to have the time to think about the data accumulating in the literature would probably reap a rich harvest of understanding . |