Example sentences of "of [n mass] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a tax credit of £1.8m checked the slump in Pergamon 's net result with earnings per share holding up at 2.9p ( 4.1p ) . |
| 2 | What sort of folk bought the furniture ? |
| 3 | In the sixteenth century the Swiss physician Paracelsus tried to introduce more logical and effective methods of treatment.and laid the foundations of a pharmaceutical approach to drug selection , while at the same time reviving the idea of treatment by similars . |
| 4 | The all-important cost of £64 made the table cheaper than making a similar model from scratch , and the fence proved accurate enough for rebating and jointing . |
| 5 | However , King was determined to catch him and he moved into the lead for the next two laps before Joey hit back and with a speed of 110.34mph regained the advantage . |
| 6 | The deficit of £535,122 included the club record £700,000 signing of Ian Olney from Aston Villa . |
| 7 | Only when a French-speaking member of staff read the label did problems arise . |
| 8 | Four members of staff shared the honours for the show 's success . |
| 9 | General Marshall and his colleagues in the joint chiefs of staff believed the United States must occupy at least part of Korea in order to increase American power in the postwar balance between American and Soviet interests in the Far East . |
| 10 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 11 | Last year more than 50,000 members of staff completed the training designed for staff handling perishable foods . |
| 12 | The joint chiefs of staff reviewed the role of Japan in defence policy and recommended to James Forrestal , the Secretary of Defense , on 1 March 1949 that in consequence of the serious world crisis and the probability of this crisis deepening , appropriate measures should be taken at an early date so that the ‘ military potential ’ of Japan could be utilised should events warrant it . |
| 13 | His bid of £130 secured the prize . |
| 14 | The party never indeed accepted coalition as an idea ; a majority of MPs accepted the advice of its leaders to keep the actual government in being . |
| 15 | THE use of unsupervised junior doctors in accident and emergency units , particularly in rural hospitals in northern Scotland , was potentially unsafe , a committee of MPs warned the Government yesterday . |
| 16 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 17 | In May 1985 , on the occasion of the centenary , hundreds of people thronged the platform , many in Victorian costume . |
| 18 | A recent G M B poll showed that sixty nine percent of people thought the unions should support Labour to balance big biglifs big business and what a major balancing act that is . |
| 19 | ‘ A lot of people thought the world clique was an élitist group of artists . |
| 20 | It is generally accepted that large numbers of people evaded the attention of the enumerators on that occasion and that if allowance is made for under-recording the total should be raised to about 9·2 millions . |
| 21 | Hundreds of people followed the cortege of Mr Peacock , a prison officer , from his Joanmount Park home where he was shot in the back to the Holy Trinity Parish Church on the Oldpark Road , in north Belfast . |
| 22 | Below , a mass of people followed the procession , the ragged figures ' bare feet pounding the dirt into a smooth surface . |
| 23 | A handful of people crossed the harbour square , dawdling on their way home or to drink after work . |
| 24 | And I 'm told a lot of people contacted the agency . |
| 25 | Julian said a couple of people took the leaflets . |
| 26 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 27 | A recent consumer survey indicated that 89% of people wanted the Government to implement legislation to promote more recycling of paper . |
| 28 | Mr Paul Dickson , regional public affairs manager for the Trust said hundreds of people visited the hall 's plant centre and shop each Sunday . |
| 29 | Despite the mud , thousands of people visited the show . |
| 30 | HUNDREDS of people learned the cost of alcohol on their health and their pockets yesterday in , of all places , a pub . |