Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
| 2 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 3 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 4 | National data of the same quality used for the present analyses were not always available , though even 20% under-registration , which is unlikely , would not have affected the conclusions of this report . |
| 5 | Teterborough serves private aircraft with the same intensity that Le Guardia and Kennedy serve the commercial routes in and out of New York . |
| 6 | In the first eight months of the year they were 36pc above the same period in 1992 . |
| 7 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 8 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 9 | These data compare predator assemblages with trapping data from the same habitat over which the predator was known to hunt , and comparisons can also be made between different species of predator that live and hunt in the same locality . |
| 10 | A comparison of data from the same apparatus at different distances is a crucial test for oscillations . |
| 11 | Testing of this hypothesis is difficult since probabilistic language models tend to be tested on data from the same domain as the training corpus , hence domain specific effects are unlikely to show up . |
| 12 | The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 . |
| 13 | BP reported a first half net loss of £717m compared with a net profit of £834m in the same period last year . |
| 14 | So were the compositions demanded for grants and privileges , particularly by James IV and V. In the same period , royal rents were increased as the crown converted its grants of land to feuferme , hereditary tenure for which its tenants paid heavily . |
| 15 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 16 | We have presented our data in the same way as MacKenzie and Jefferies from Oxford . |
| 17 | Treat the data in the same way as for ( 1 ) above . |
| 18 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 19 | So in this sense the approach is a pragmatic one , which bears on the here and now rather than on eternity.i At the same time , to formulate the problem in terms of interests , as I have done , is to focus attention on the moral priorities embedded in holism and individualism . |
| 20 | They arrived at the aircraft at the same instant as the factory fire crew . |
| 21 | To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time . |
| 22 | Following an arson attack on the Jewish barracks of the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp , north of Berlin , on Sept. 27 , Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel laid a wreath at the site on Sept. 29 and the Education Minister of Brandenburg state , Heinrich Enderlein , issued a statement apologising to all Jewish people . |
| 23 | Icelanders have to fork out 57p for the same product . |
| 24 | The gentlemen of the town were supplementing the stipend , and the next Master , William Nicholson , gave the sum of £10 in his will of 1597 to pay an Usher to be an assistant , and another £10 for the same purpose came in 1605 under the will of Alexander Torkington . |
| 25 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 26 | Labour 's spend was around £750,000 for the same period , while the Liberal Democrats spent about £175,000 . |
| 27 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |
| 28 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 29 | " And in the rare event that I should miss , young Mister Deadeye here will be raring to let fly with a deadly Holland and Holland cannon of the same calibre . |
| 30 | Government concern over the country 's economic performance had been increased by a current-account deficit of $646,000,000 in the first two months of 1990 , compared with a surplus of $888,000,000 in the same period a year earlier . |