Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A leather helmet of the Durham Artillery Militia , circa 1853 , in its tin carrying case , realised £1,800 . |
| 2 | She receives £1,000 from the Stanley Morrison Trust . |
| 3 | Sun claims to have developed 80% of Unix System Labs Inc 's Unix SVR4 operating system , and SunSoft is disappointed that its former technology partner had chosen to go into competition against Solaris . |
| 4 | Rannoch is woven with a newly developed 80% Wool 20% Polypropylene yarn using an inspiring range of heathers and solid colours . |
| 5 | After perforation , the death rate nears 50% . |
| 6 | We will also launch a new programme to invest £60 million in the modernisation of Britain 's cancer services , using the resources we will save by scrapping the Conservatives ' tax handout on private medical insurance . |
| 7 | Safetip wins £250 |
| 8 | I do n't think there using sheep any more . |
| 9 | STUDENT Chris Smith was given £1,000 from a pools company — and then told : ‘ Sorry , we 've made a mistake . ’ |
| 10 | Goalkeeper Frazer Digby said he was given £1,000 as a loyalty payment , and a £50-a-game clean-sheet award when he did n't let in any goals . |
| 11 | Action Harrogate , the campaign to improve standards and attract new business to Harrogate , has been given £1,000 by the Hotels , Guest Houses and Restaurants Association . |
| 12 | It slinks greyly among the marram grass ; it slides over and under barbed wire ; it makes an eagle lose direction and settles a dank wetness on his feathers ; it softens the landscape into obscurity , it hides the familiar cliffs , it turns sheep into monsters and highland cattle into roaring mountains which lurch up towards an eagle out of the clinging mist . |
| 13 | Information Presentation Technologies Inc and Xcelerated Systems Inc have made their respective products Partner and Liken 100% compatible . |
| 14 | The client eventually recovered £1,000 in supplementary benefit additional requirements , backdated to 1976 . |
| 15 | Agreed 100% . |
| 16 | Frequently congregations made free gilts to their ministers but as these were often wealthy congregations which could also afford a high salary the bonus served as icing to an already rich cake : Joseph Parker , for example , got £1,000 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ministry and John Clifford was given a round-the-world trip when his health failed in 1897 . |
| 17 | She 's two exhausted after the long journey to go shopping.She just wants to go home . |
| 18 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 19 | At the same time Amersham is to issue $30m of loan notes and will make a cash payment of $12m from its own resources . |
| 20 | In the fourth quarter last year Informix had a 25% pre-tax profit and in the recently completed first quarter it posted 23% , White said . |
| 21 | The Conservative government signed cheques with abandon in the run-up to the 1992 polls , and over the coming year will have to borrow £1,000 for every citizen . |
| 22 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 23 | The major , Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973 . |
| 24 | Building firm goes £112m into the red |
| 25 | If so , and depending on their condition , the set could make £40 at auction . |
| 26 | Erm , I mean headquarters as from adminis , the administrative erm part of it I do n't know whether you saw the Barnardos This is Your Life lady |
| 27 | ‘ I have given 100pc but my play has been affected because I have not been mentally happy . ’ |
| 28 | All three voted last year to uphold Roe v Wade , the 1973 case that established a constitutional right to an abortion . |
| 29 | I know my Spencer ancestors built their wealth in the sixteenth century on the rearing of sheep , and I believe one of the benefits of receiving the Freedom of the City is that Freemen , or Women , are able to drive sheep across London Bridge and through the City of London . |
| 30 | I believe that the old chapel was predominately a wayside chapel serving both the few local people and travellers , also being used by sheep drovers who used the lane to drive sheep from Meopham and Luddesdown , down to the meadows beside the river . |