Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the basic rate taxpayer invests in equities outside the PEP , he will currently receive income of £60 after paying tax on a gross dividend of £100 . |
| 2 | 8d. for encroachments and unlawful destruction of the covert ; Sir John Winter , another forest landowner and ironmaster , was fined £20,000 for taking wood without warrant . |
| 3 | ALLAN BORDER has been fined £850 for showing dissent during the dramatic final overs of Australia 's first Test against the West Indies on Monday . |
| 4 | The project is consequently attempting to use other data for assessing change over time . |
| 5 | Alan sets to work on a simple , single-layered bob by brushing hair through well with a Denman Traditional . |
| 6 | Many Macintosh applications spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 7 | Many Macintosh applications , such as PageMaker and Quark XPress , spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 8 | Many Macintosh applications , such as PageMaker and Quark XPress , spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 9 | But this was after gains of £225,000 from selling part of its stake in Total Systems Plc . |
| 10 | The manufacturer specifies that this must be left for 72hrs before adding water to the pond . |
| 11 | This created a more active market in foreign exchange and facilitated the use of the US$ for financing balance of payments purposes . |
| 12 | Movements in foreign exchange rates will affect the sterling value of the principal deposited or borrowed and your finance director will not thank you for saving £50,000 by earning interest at 1 1/2 % above UK rates if you lose £1m when the foreign currency is reconverted to sterling . |
| 13 | Measurement of intelligence , relative to that of a pupil 's contemporaries , promised the fairest and the simplest and ( apparently ) the most appropriate means for effecting selection of this kind . |
| 14 | But it did not institute systematic means of monitoring school curricula to check on whether or not inspectorate advice was being followed , nor did it devise systematic means for exerting pressure on schools to follow this advice . |
| 15 | ‘ Authority is an inappropriate means for obtaining commitment to objectives . |
| 16 | Riot police used tear gas at a Hong Kong detention centre for Vietnamese boat people after meeting resistance during a ‘ routine weapons search ’ . |
| 17 | FOUR hundred riot police firing tear-gas stormed into one of Hong Kong 's detention centres holding Vietnamese boat people after meeting resistance to what was officially described as a routine weapons search . |
| 18 | The raider escaped with £760 after demanding cash from a cashier at the National and Provincial in Bondgate at 2.55pm on December 27 . |
| 19 | As with Terry she meant nothing to him , except as a means of extorting money from her papa . |
| 20 | Using pre-formulated questions as a structure for notes also provides more able children with a useful means of synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 21 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 22 | He valued ceremony , too , perhaps as a barrier , negotiable when desired , but inestimable as a means of maintaining distance during a parley . |
| 23 | In the early 1980s the process went one stage further with the Bank buying commercial bills as a means of providing assistance in the money market ; the need for this was exacerbated by the policy of overfunding the PSBR to reduce broad money growth . |
| 24 | The Cockcroft Committee 's recommendation relating to graduated tests is stated in para 553 of the report : a study should be commissioned to consider whether it is possible to devise a means of providing evidence of achievement in mathematics for lower-attaining pupils in ways which will support , and not conflict with the provision of suitable mathematics courses in schools . |
| 25 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 26 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 27 | It is interesting that while the quota system was rejected as a means of providing equality of opportunity for gender and religious affiliation , it was still considered an acceptable and effective means of achieving the same aim for people with disabilities . |
| 28 | Instead we should provide them with the means of taking charge of their own lives ; then — if and when they are ready — help them to understand their payoffs and hidden agendas , so that they can choose to stop playing this destructive game . |
| 29 | There are several other means of drawing attention to the difference between these adjectives and the predicate qualifiers , with which the risk of confusion may be greatest . |
| 30 | This is a useful means of gathering evidence for assessment purposes . |