Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [n mass] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Coutts had considered Virgin 's request to exceed their overdraft by £200,000 over the next seven days . |
| 32 | County NatWest 's has cut its forecast to £229m after the exceptionals and property profits . |
| 33 | HP said some of the factors that raised its cost of sales in the fourth quarter are not new and are likely to continue . |
| 34 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 35 | The index of the city 's wealth is its contribution of £1,704 to the subsidy , which , although far ahead of that of any other provincial town , was only slightly more than a tenth of London 's £16675 . |
| 36 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 37 | Dubbed The Convertible Z , the guitar changes its shape by means of a concealed metal bar . |
| 38 | They can not merely learn and keep maps in their head of the location of hives and sources of nectar , and recognize colours and patterns ; they can communicate such orientations , distances and directions to their colleagues by means of the famous ‘ waggle dance ’ . |
| 39 | While London-based IBCA has held firm to an average AA for the three , S&P and Moody 's have cut their grades to A. At the end of 1992 all three agencies rated them similarly . |
| 40 | No lovelier sight was ever seen than the herring drifters coming in with their catch of herring on a calm sea in the mornings . |
| 41 | Into a pattern of military administration which may appear deceptively well organised there stepped a class of soldier , the mercenary , whose presence to people of the late Middle Ages meant destruction and disorder . |
| 42 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 43 | In some cases these Rios 2 chips will overlap the PowerPC in performance while others should outperform it 50% to 100% at the same clock speeds thanks to superscalar technology . |
| 44 | And thirdly , with all his sympathy with people of every kind , uppermost in all his plans in 1102 was the simple thought that there could be no moderation in obeying God 's law , and it would all be easy if people would only believe , and act accordingly . |
| 45 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 46 | Fogarty , of Columbia Way , Blackburn , Lancs , who recently won the world endurance championship , admitted driving his car at 93mph along a 60mph section of the A75 near Annan , Dumfries and Galloway . |
| 47 | Within ten minutes , Woodrow Wilson had consulted with his chiefs of staff in the war room , and decided to go ahead with the contingency plan . |
| 48 | One of the most interesting has recently been proposed by Richard Miller , who elaborates his claim by means of an example — the identification by capitalists of the bourgeois and national interests . |
| 49 | Since guiding his team to the European Cup-Winners ' Cup five months ago , Cruyff has taken his spending to £15m in a year . |
| 50 | Probably this aggression had determined his choice of aircraft for the day 's flying — P-51B model 42–106929 . |
| 51 | The expectation is so subtle that it can be transmitted even when the experimenter conveys his instructions by means of a tape recording . |
| 52 | While his throw of 68.06m at the AAA 's meeting was well below his best , he was satisfied . |
| 53 | Von Zwehl now dispatched his Chief of Staff to the Crown Prince to urge once again , and in no uncertain terms , that a full-scale attack be launched on the Left Bank . |
| 54 | His interest in people in the street is very genuine too . |
| 55 | The chef in question , who has perhaps first-hand knowledge of Normandy , and obtains his supplies of fish from the Norman coast , calls his creation sole à la normande . |
| 56 | It consists of a two and a half foot length of narrow clear plastic tube which is fixed to your cleaner by means of an adaptor . |
| 57 | This will allow us to offer your place(s) to people on the waiting list . |
| 58 | We will now be able to take our leave of Rosa with a quick nod , a little inclination from the vertical . |
| 59 | There may be a number of reasons for this , but a very likely one relates to the whole question of our treatment of people within the community who are different . |
| 60 | Your interest in works like the B minor Mass of Bach , Beethoven 's Missa Solemnis , and such semi-sacred works as the Bruckner Fifth Symphony was said not to have endeared you to certain Party officials . |