Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WW346 was used for crew training , also for transporting groundcrew and spares , including engines , when the Squadron went on detachment to Malta , three aircraft out of the four were grounded all at the same time , because of engine problems . |
| 2 | They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors . |
| 3 | In view of what you , Mr. Speaker , have had to say about the Consolidated Fund Bill , can you give some assurance that , if this matter about Maxwell and him laundering money is raised , you will ensure that people such as Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield will be given special tickets to sit in the Gallery so that they can hear the debate and so that they can draw the attention of various channels to the fact that perhaps Mr. Lightman should investigate the missing Maxwell millions , and perhaps we can find out whether Roger Windsor , Mr. Maxwell 's nark , was paid £50,000 out of the Daily Mirror 's missing millions . |
| 4 | The supporters of the status quo within the Labour Party seem to think that a united Ireland will somehow develop by some inconceivable means out of the current sectarian stalemate . |
| 5 | yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service . |
| 6 | I think they had a bit of juggling to do , moving people out of the odd house in rows they demolished , and into the empty spots in ones they 're keeping — like filling decaying teeth-but most of it was just rotting where it stood . |
| 7 | Send your answers by computer please ( or by post if you are in New Model Army ) to Thrills Moonwalker Competition And then be the first of two people out of the spangly hat . |
| 8 | You 've said you want to bring your people out of the Dark Ages and into the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 10 | Life has improved immeasurably since the first provincial premier , Joey Smallwood , began coaxing his people out of the hundreds of little ports that were accessible only by fishing boat and into more urban living . |
| 11 | In particular , the virtual absence of the private-rented sector in the suburbs and new growth areas , together with the rundown of public-sector housing construction , have made almost impossible a net transfer of lower-paid people out of the inner city areas in the 1980s . |
| 12 | These delightful birds , one species out of the eighteen to be found in the Southern Hemisphere , come from the relatively temperate latitudes along the western coast of South America as far north as Peru . |
| 13 | A CLAIM by Borders Area of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland that Government cuts in hill ewe subsidy would take £120,000 out of the local economy in three valleys alone has been criticised by Sir Hector Monro , Scottish minister of agriculture . |
| 14 | Malcolm Hulke was a creator of Pathfinders , while Terry Nation , a close friend of Dennis Spooner , had contributed a sf script to ABC TV for a series called Out of this World , script-edited by Irene Shubik , soon to be brought to the BBC herself by Sydney Newman to helm his adult science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown , destined for the new channel , BBC 2 . |