Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although this test does not provide the statistical and normative data for making comparisons with the performance of ordinary children found in some other tests , the use of imitation as an elicitation strategy makes it . |
| 4 | Aid donors had recently taken a tough stance in particular with the Sudanese government for preventing relief aircraft from reaching areas in the largely Christian south , where the civil war against the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) was at its height ; the Sudanese had claimed that such relief was being used to aid the rebels . |
| 5 | Staff at Marks and Spencer in Darlington presented £2,000 to the Alzheimers Society and £1,500 to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf . |
| 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 | Under the terms of the agreements China would provide the Maldives with an interest-free loan of 5,000,000 yuan ( US$1,100,000 ) and a grant of 5,000,000 yuan for implementing projects during the period 1990-95 . |
| 10 | The manufacturer specifies that this must be left for 72hrs before adding water to the pond . |
| 11 | The 1989 Ryder Cup stepladder brigade will be delighted to learn that The Belfry has spent more than £500,000 on making improvements to the Brabazon Course in readiness for next year 's rematch . |
| 12 | Yesterday police officers visited St Pauls Motors , in North Road , Darlington , to warn staff about leaving cars from the garage parked illegally on double yellow lines . |
| 13 | Riot police used tear gas at a Hong Kong detention centre for Vietnamese boat people after meeting resistance during a ‘ routine weapons search ’ . |
| 14 | The raider escaped with £760 after demanding cash from a cashier at the National and Provincial in Bondgate at 2.55pm on December 27 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He valued ceremony , too , perhaps as a barrier , negotiable when desired , but inestimable as a means of maintaining distance during a parley . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The activity is also intended to encourage students to see literary texts as a valuable means of providing insights into the subtleties of linguistic form and function . |
| 20 | At a corporate level the EIS offers a means of providing managers with the up-to-date information required for timely and informed decision-making . |
| 21 | In a book devoted to this question Robson ( 1976 ) contrasted the welfare state , as a means of providing services to the needy and underprivileged members of the community , with the ‘ welfare society ’ , in which ‘ welfare is of unlimited scope ’ , involving conditions of work , income , the character and scope of social services , the quality of the environment , recreational facilities , and the cultivation of the arts , as well as freedom of expression and movement , and the protection of individuals against abuses of power . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | They have persistently insisted that the treaty we signed contained agreements to enhance democracy within Europe , within the Commission and within the European Parliament , and at the same time embraced closer European union by means of getting agreements between the Governments of the Twelve on foreign policy , security matters and matters connected with home affairs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The destruction in 1980 of Iraq 's two Gulf terminals , together with the depletion of its foreign-exchange reserves , meant that it was in urgent need of an alternative means of delivering oil in the Gulf and a means of settling suppliers ' bills while payment for the oil was coming through . |
| 26 | Exhibitions represent a major means of delivering information about the Garden 's role and work , to a wide audience . |
| 27 | Exhibition publications and publicity are a valuable means of delivering information on an international basis . |
| 28 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 29 | Brenda , what do you say to the argument that having these sites is basically a means of roping people into the system ? |
| 30 | We will now briefly investigate means of forming harmony of a moderately non-tonal nature in up to five parts by using contradicting notes . |