Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [n mass] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other species of fish , whales and seals feed in mid-water or on the sea-bed , where their prey are mostly fish and squid . |
| 2 | Subscriptions increased rapidly throughout the inflation-sick 1970's , so much so that in 1970 the men 's subscription had been only £28 but by 1980 was £126.50 + V.A.T. ( In 1960 it was £14 and today ( 1986 ) is £165 + V.A.T. ) . |
| 3 | But they are only statistics and , of course , there are times when it is right to rethink even the most deeply held beliefs . |
| 4 | Oh , oh absolutely , but of course , I mean , Afrikaaners are just people and er they have bad Afrikaaners and good Afrikaaners just like anywhere and anyone , you know , anyone else . |
| 5 | There are more 3lb and 4lb bream caught , accidentally or otherwise , on small fish , than there are double-figure bream . |
| 6 | The club 's debts are still £6m and the viability of the package could depend on Keegan committing his long-term future to the club and survival in the Second Division relegation battle . |
| 7 | Are both aspirin and heparin justified as adjuncts tothrombolytic therapy for acute myocardialinfarction ? |
| 8 | Revenues are up 65% and profits by 150% . |
| 9 | Agreed , the weekend trade is down but residential courses have been up 10% and day courses up 50% this year . |
| 10 | Veyrat promises that by the time the first of 20 £40,000 sports cars are built by June 1001 , weight will still be under 2000lb and acceleration electrifying . |
| 11 | Annual expenditure growth is expected to be about 15% and 19% respectively . |
| 12 | Availability will coincide with first shipment of NT from Microsoft and will be about $500 but pricing will be finalised when the product ships . |
| 13 | The bill would be around £75 but , as Mary had said , the van would n't get as far as Calais in its present state . |
| 14 | He 'll fit in nowhere-he 'll be neither fish nor fowl … ‘ |
| 15 | Three months after these transactions , suppose the share price will be either 500p or 300p . |
| 16 | In Powys , the HLCA payment would be either £28/LU or £42/LU for sheep ( £44.50/LU for cows ) in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ zone which occupies most of the county . |
| 17 | But the results are strongly contrasted. and perhaps the best way for the critic — as for the listener — is not to stretch comparisons , but to take each piece on its own , very different merits . |
| 18 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1989 after-tax profits of companies in the Standard & Poor 's 500 index were respectively 24% and 13% below those of a year before . |
| 19 | Over half ( 53 per cent ) of women 's payments were under £750 and three-quarters under £1,500 . |
| 20 | Advanced Micro shares were up $3.125 or 13.5% , at $27.375 . |
| 21 | Advanced Micro shares were up $3.125 or 13.5% , at $27.375 . |
| 22 | South-west England recorded a 38pc drop , Wales and south-east England each dropped 22pc while in Scotland where the recession began later failures were up 16pc and there was a 3pc increase in north and north-west England . |
| 23 | Revenues from non-System V products such as Transaction Processing and Networking were up $5.2m or 54% , most of it attributable to Services . |
| 24 | Profits before tax were up 137pc and turnover topped £54m against £43m for the corresponding period last year , an increase of 25pc . |
| 25 | Analysts were mildly bullish following Storage Technology Corp 's first quarter report — figures , page five — and after an order imbalance on the New York Stock Exchange , the shares were up $1.125 or 4.7% at $25.125 in early trading on Friday : the numbers beat Wall Street expectations , and the company said that operating performance exceeded its expectations , largely as a result of the strengthening in the US enterprise-related business ; Europe remained slow as a result of weak economies , but the mid-range business has begun to benefit from new products ; cash grew to $325m from $118m at the end of 1992 ; it studiously avoided saying anything about the late Iceberg disk array . |
| 26 | The fact is , USL 's total revenues for 1992 were about $90m and we even made a bit of a profit . |
| 27 | There is no fixed definition of " controlling interest " and it is usually determined by negotiation , being either 50% or more or 30% . |
| 28 | I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring . |
| 29 | Decreases were commonly 10% and sometimes as much as 20% of total shell height . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , since these bodies remain within the civil service , some of us feel that executive agencies are neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring ? |