Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [was/were] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant in the British Steel case received an ex gratia payment of £10,000 and was awarded an MBE on the recommendation of his employer . |
| 2 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 3 | He found that Deep Level had been carried S.E. on the vein for 30 fathoms beyond the old works and was yielding a little ore . |
| 4 | His greatest idea came after he had written his first works and was doing an index for a book : this was to give a name composed of two words , a generic name and a specific or trivial one , to each species . |
| 5 | Morpeth raised more than £500 and were offered a slot on three local radio stations to publicise Amnesty International 's concerns . |
| 6 | Over the night of Thursday 10 October , the fire reached a temperature of 1,300°C and was threatening the structure of the reactor . |