Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them . |
| 2 | Meat must be uniformly heated to 66°C ( 150°F ) to kill intracystic toxoplasma . |
| 3 | Both vehicles are eventually intended for works and storage purposes . |
| 4 | The Big Houses in the district were now mostly inhabited by people of his uncle 's generation . |
| 5 | The industry received a subsidy , optimistically calculated at £10 million , but in fact costing £23 million , to keep wages and profits at their existing level . |
| 6 | Indeed , conventional hospital wards are rarely designed with people with mental disorder in mind and , even when they are purpose-built , they do not provide a suitable environment for at least three groups of people listed below . |
| 7 | In 100 women undergoing termination of pregnancy , coelomic fluid was successfully aspirated in 96% of cases at 6–10 weeks ' gestation , 42% at 11 , and 10% at 12 weeks . |
| 8 | We felt strongly enough to go with people who trusted us . |
| 9 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 10 | The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200 . |
| 11 | between Catholics and Protestants , did much damage to people and to places in the Pyrenean region , Pau included , and Jeanne d'Albret 's army commander , Montgomery , who recaptured Pau from the troops of King Charles IX , achieved an especially nasty reputation for the reprisals and pillagings he carried out . |
| 12 | Squire Mackworth was similarly likely to possess more than this one estate , and sure enough land worth £5 a year is found in Normanton . |
| 13 | The courage to hold contradictory impressions together is a brave skill , highly prized by writers . |
| 14 | Die Hard II is $20m over budget ; Brucie 's wages alone account for $8m |
| 15 | Adding up all of the costs of the items mentioned so far amazingly only amounted to £230.58 . |
| 16 | The value of contracts in 1986/87 only amounted to £120 million ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 186 ) . |
| 17 | However , new investment only amounted to £91m . |
| 18 | Although his yearly stipend only amounted to £6.00 or so in today 's values , he was soon witnessed to be spending the equivalent of thousands of pounds on various good works for his village . |
| 19 | Likely beneficiaries of a boom in personal computer sales include Lotus Development Corp , Microsoft and Borland International Inc , which together account for 90% of Japan 's spreadsheet market . |
| 20 | But health , education and social security together account for 61% of public spending . |
| 21 | Strathclyde , Grampian and Lothian Regions together account for 70% of the industry 's UK workforce . |
| 22 | Unfortunately we only got within 15km from the town . |
| 23 | Although the UK only represents between 5% and 10% of the £100 million plus turnover of UK ELT publishers , its influence is considerable . |
| 24 | The functional implications of this insertion into the α subunit gene , which is highly conserved across species ( 5 ) , is not yet known . |
| 25 | It is much frequented by aircraft crews and the sort of businessman who jogs instead of having breakfast , and you 'd be lucky to meet anyone in there whose native language was English . |
| 26 | +Altered responsibility in April 1989 reshuffle [ i.e. not as wrongly given on p. 36597 ] . |
| 27 | The Melanesian Spearhead Group ( SPG — composed of Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands and Vanuatu ) , originally formed in 1986 [ not 1988 as wrongly given on p. 36702 ] to press for a strong stance on the New Caledonia issue within the South Pacific Forum , held a summit meeting in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara in March 1990 , when the FLNKS was admitted to full membership . |
| 28 | Savings included reductions in subsidies for agricultural exports and increases in state controlled prices , particularly for fuel ( which rose by between 19 and 45 per cent ) , which together amounted to $426,000,000 . |
| 29 | For example , in the Shove case , the sum awarded by the High Court under the first two headings in the above list alone amounted to £7300 : not a trifling amount . |
| 30 | American exports only rose by 38% between 1922 and 1929 , while the rate of manufacturing rose by 50% . |