Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |
| 2 | The Noriega forces had gained entrance to the barracks headquarters where a group of army offices mutinied early yesterday . |
| 3 | We no longer hang a man because , in despair for his family , he steals a sheep or a loaf of bread . |
| 4 | Despite being thrown from water with a temperature of 19°C and a pH of 7 into water of 24°C and a pH of 7.9 the previous evening and then virtually desiccated , they were all feeding later that day . |
| 5 | The raiders escaped with £850 and a quantity of cigarettes . |
| 6 | Attention is also drawn to the fact that since late 1984 a Soviet air unit composed of BADGER and BEAR aircraft and a squadron of FLOGGER aircraft have been deployed at Cam Ranh airfield . |
| 7 | The commission structure is a significant improvement on pre-Big Bang charges at a minimum of £16 and a rate of 1.25 per cent on the first £2,500 of a transaction , falling to 0.75 per cent for the next £2,500 and 0.2 per cent thereafter . |
| 8 | 8 An envelope has an area of 75cm and a width of 5cm . |
| 9 | A litre of CeraFoam has an R.R.P. of £5.20 and a litre of BioKern costs £3.50 |
| 10 | The LACs usually have a propulsive rate of 10% and a frequency of 3–8/min . |
| 11 | The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml . |
| 12 | Effectively this means that some students at least are initially anxious at the prospect of any language work with a grammatical focus which does not include a formalisation of the data and a description of the rules by the teacher . |
| 13 | Most character recognisers handle this ambiguity by producing a list of characters for each ambiguous letter position , to represent the plausible matches between the data and a database of stored character templates . |
| 14 | To begin with , the basic unit of programming for object Cobol is the traditional Cobol program that comprises a lump of data and a lump of procedure . |
| 15 | They will provide facilities for accessing important data bases such as those produced by the Central Statistical Office and the Bank of England , the management of the user 's own data base , the display of data and a number of analyses including various regression methods , two and three stage least squares , full information maximum likelihood and Kalman filters . |
| 16 | The simple grid described above is used merely to exemplify the method which , with computer analysis of the data and a use of rank ordering or numerical scaling of the judgments , is able to reach a higher level of sophistication . |
| 17 | Powered by four 2,000hp turbo-supercharged NK9L–L radials , the Nakajima G8N1 Renzan ( Mountain Range , Allied code-name Rita ) had a top speed of 395mph and a range of up to 4,700 miles . |
| 18 | People stared running to their doctor cut finger , where previous they would have said , oh I 'll have a an aspirin and a cup of tea . |
| 19 | The neck itself is made from Canadian maple and feels fairly slim for a five — 45mm across the nut , with a depth of just 23mm and a width of 60mm at the twelfth fret . |
| 20 | Loose courgettes are 65p a lb and a three-pack of mixed peppers is Pounds 1.09 . |
| 21 | A mahogany Partners desk brought £1,200 and a Hunter of Bridlington longcased clock £920 . |
| 22 | This was originally set at a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 100% , although recent reclassifications have increased the minimum échelle to 80% . |
| 23 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |
| 24 | Down Royal Auctions produced some commendable prices with a fine Italian marble top dining table making £2,400 ; a sapphire and diamond dress ring , £1,800 and a set of Chippendale style dining chairs , £1,500 ; mahogany-cased grandfather clock with brass dial , by Henderson , £1,200 ; an extending mahogany dining table with one extra leaf went at £1,200 ; a Victorian chiffonier at £850 and a Cecil Maguire oil , Plough Horses , at £750 . |
| 25 | Durham , received a cheque for £1,000 and a bottle of Champagne . |
| 26 | Any one application must not exceed £1,000 and a maximum of three applications in three years can be made . |
| 27 | Premier League chairman Sir John Quinton , who will also attend the talks , made ‘ final offer ’ noises last Friday when Taylor rejected a deal that would have given the PFA 5pc or a minimum of £1m from future revenue . |
| 28 | This compares with a first-half profit of £19m and a loss of £55m in 1991–92 . |
| 29 | Its direct-drive 33hp electric motor gives it a good top speed of 74mph and a range of 90 miles : more than enough , says Renault , for the average commuter 's entire week 's travel . |
| 30 | At a titre of 300 ELISA units , the assay has a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 96% when measured against the standard of histological examination or culture of endoscopic antral biopsy specimens or both ( in house data based on 100 patients of whom 62 had H pylori gastritis . ) |