Example sentences of "[noun sg] with a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the First Leisure Corporation presented the Association with a £17,000 coach which had been specially customised for use at Sussexdown . |
| 2 | She turned and saw , stuck to the wall of the craft , a card with a series of rings drawn on it . |
| 3 | STAFF at Royal Tuscan gave disabled ex-marine Ketterick a cash boost with a £550 donation to North Staffordshire Hospital Centre 's Bionic Workshop . |
| 4 | This prompted the Japanese bank to cover the loss with a £50m rights issue . |
| 5 | Kemp is brief but sensible about the mariage blanc to Effie ; he is full , and dismaying , about Ruskin 's infantilism , manic depression , and Humbert Humbert obsession with a series of young girls . |
| 6 | Instead he wanted a £100 fancy shell-shaped sink in ‘ Whisper ’ pink with a £68 mixer tap . |
| 7 | I have a 2000 gallon pond with a 18′ × 9′ surface area . |
| 8 | If the undecided voters chose to vote Conservative , Michael Fallon would keep the seat with a 4pc lead . |
| 9 | THE housebuilder Bellway yesterday joined the lengthening queue of UK companies that have returned to their shareholders for fresh equity with a £33.6 million rights issue , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 10 | After a shaky start , Tyrone moved into top gear and led by five points at half-time with a series of spectacular points by Ciaran McBride , Colm Donnelly and Brian Catterson . |
| 11 | Tea with a fish breakfast or coffee with beefsteaks have never been my own great favourites in the game of what to drink with what . |
| 12 | Dad was only sixty , a journalist with a yen to write a book . |
| 13 | A mother ewe with two lambs in the field behind the house one morning demonstrated her strong maternal instincts when she successful saw off a two year old steer with a series of savage head butts . |
| 14 | She had tried to soften the effect of long sleeves and a high round neck with a pair of pearl stud earrings . |
| 15 | How the other tribes lined up against Rome it is impossible to say , but the presence of army units in their territory probably kept the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii quiet , and this would also have applied to the northern Dobunni with a cavalry regiment at Cirencester , but their allegiance was to Rome anyway . |
| 16 | Against all this , Conner is fielding one boat with a £7 million budget — and there is no love lost between the two men . |
| 17 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |
| 18 | He said Bioplan would replace a fence with a 3m high stone wall to shield homes next to the car park from the noise created by car doors slamming and engines being started . |
| 19 | The research assesses the impact of European law which might constrain the national policy makers but might also provide industry with a means of challenging national policies which contravene European law . |
| 20 | My friend had a leopard skin and I had a coney seal with a mink marmot collar and cuffs . |
| 21 | He sat down to write himself out of insolvency with a series of new novels starting with A Fair Maid of Perth . |
| 22 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 23 | The answer lay in seeing such defeats as signs of God 's temporary displeasure with a people , not with their cause , a displeasure which resulted from their sinfulness which was now being punished . |
| 24 | A world set in a universe whose furthest reaches could be explored by any rambler with a pair of nailed boots , a packet of sandwiches , and a one-inch map . |
| 25 | The room was quiet except for a hidden fan that suddenly interrupted its humming with a series of squeaks like somebody rubbing his shoes together . |
| 26 | Ramprakash looked to have established himself in the Test side with a series of fighting knocks against the West Indians in 1991 . |
| 27 | Prince Charles could brighten his study with a £12.45 wall-hanging from south India . |
| 28 | Earnings are up 22 p.c. to 55p a share , but the dividend increase is being kept to 8 p.c. with a 14p final on June 8 , making 21p for the year . |
| 29 | APR ) for a maximum loan of 90 p.c. with a £350 set up fee and three months early redemption penalty . |
| 30 | In one case , a company was found to have a decisive influence with a 39% shareholding , as none of the other blocks of shareholdings exceeded 4% , and so the company was in a relative position of strength . |