Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also said , I mean groups of people who are not answerable to wider collective membership . |
| 2 | Because of the frequent follow-up in the Health Study , we could detect and treat cases of measles with vitamin A. These children were also excluded from the trial from that point . |
| 3 | The wave power device has received funding of £50,000 from the government for the research stage and £15,000 from the Highland Region 's development department for the prototype . |
| 4 | In April 1991 , Historic Scotland awarded historic buildings repair grant of £344,000 towards the cost of repairs to the historic shell of the A-listed building . |
| 5 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 6 | But what I ca n't understand , I mean majority of people I mean erm you 've got ta pay the debt in the end whatever . |
| 7 | Naming groups of people is an extremely complex issue , which is dependent on the political orientations of the people involved and on rapid changes in nuance and connotation . |
| 8 | You do n't want loads of people though . |
| 9 | Erm now you 've had a chance first of all I after our chat er par particularly on the phone and I make notes of people who er I think come well across on the phone because you know how important that is to us . |
| 10 | Britain 's net foreign assets grew by £4bn , and the total overseas portfolio produced income of £5.9bn and capital gains of £16.1bn . |
| 11 | About half of Paramount Publishing 's revenues now come from education , with consumer publishing generating 25% of sales . |
| 12 | ( 12 ) Using pictures of people . |
| 13 | It wants to see savings of £300,000 . |
| 14 | ‘ I also liked the idea of producing images of people in the public eye which do n't adhere to the unwritten rule of portraiture — that you 've got to make some kind of personal comment about the sitter , capture their essence , if you like — which , at twenty four , I did n't feel particularly qualified to do . |
| 15 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |
| 16 | The trust spends £100,000 to buy land in the United Kingdom and receives rent of £1,000 . |
| 17 | Let's say that a commercial filter claims ( perfectly reasonably ) to be able to support 10″ of fish per 100 gallons treatment . |
| 18 | We were happy to see bushes of buck thorn , which is the food plant of the yellow brimstone butterfly , left to flourish . |
| 19 | The Commercial Property loss of $0.7m was an improvement on the previous year 's loss of $1.8m although this year the Perth floods resulted in several large claims which produced losses of $10m for this account . |
| 20 | Last year , Drambuie , the parent company of the liqueur company , announced losses of £4 million reflecting the failure of the company 's recent diversification strategy into other areas of activity . |
| 21 | He had caught loads of carp but missed five takes from the cats . |
| 22 | He has since been sacked by Nalgo and has debts of £10,000 . |
| 23 | Maxwell , 33 , who has debts of £406.5 million , arrived promptly for a 20-minute interview with a job counsellor at Didcot , Oxon . |
| 24 | PRINCE CHARLES 'S closest friend is selling the Mountbatten art collection to meet debts of £4 million . |
| 25 | The audit by Partha Mitra , registered auditor of Lovelock & Lewes , chartered accountants of Calcutta , has attracted remuneration of £5,366 — modest by UK standards , since Titaghur has a turnover of £20.634m . |
| 26 | Under this , expenditure from the structural funds was to rise to ECU 27,400 million yearly by 1999 and a new cohesion fund would be formed to provide funding of ECU 2,600 million yearly by 1999 . |
| 27 | The Monday after the men were laid off I came home from school to find crowds of people gathered outside Miss Louise 's door chattering excitedly . |
| 28 | Mr A has income of £100,000 . |
| 29 | In the year of assessment 1993/94 the trust has income of £50,000 . |
| 30 | COSTAIN , the engineering , construction and mining group , reported losses of £69m — the biggest in its 127-year history-after write-downs on property and housing land and other provisions totalling £95m . |