Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE SECOND snooker tournament held by Walton and Hersham branch in February netted a record £1,458 for the RNLI , exactly double the amount raised in the first tournament in 1990 . |
| 2 | The event — which last year raised over £68000 for the benefit of young people who are disabled , unemployed on probation or from ethnic minorities — consisted of numerous tests , designed to challenge the lads ' teamwork , communication , leadership and ingenuity . |
| 3 | The City was alarmed at the hefty slide into the red and a heavily reduced dividend payout and knocked 19p off the share price to 173p . |
| 4 | CADBURY Schweppes is paying just over £3m for the Hacks and Victory V cough-sweet brands owned by Alma , the Scottish confectionery group which went into receivership in February and was subsequently closed down . |
| 5 | Fleming 's Level was expected to be 35 fathoms before intersecting the lode and was assessed at a likely £4 : 10s. per fathom with £23 10s. for the metals and sleepers . |
| 6 | Coventry decided that it would cost more to contest the claim than pay it ; so Clarkson will get £74 for the party 's four tickets and travelling expenses . |
| 7 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 8 | The committee headed by Dame Gillian Brown held a Literary Lunch in honour of Penelope Fitzgerald a fascinating occasion that also raised £2000 for the Appeal . |
| 9 | Two years ago the couple paid £175,000 for the house at Baunton near Cirencester . |
| 10 | In the heifer classes the top bid was 2,000gns for the champion from Messrs McConchie which was purchased by JJ Patterson of Kirktonhill and Glengelt Farms , Oxton , Lauder , while the reserve champion Jenny l86th from J&W Wilson of Kirkmabreck , Creetown was bought at 900gns by R&K Drysdale , Old Cambus Quarry , Cockburnspath , Berwick . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that a response rate of 63% for the fluticasone group does represent a therapeutic effect . |
| 12 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 13 | gain a weighted aggregate of 50% for the area of study overall . |
| 14 | Assuming a mean temperature of 14°C for the earth and lower atmosphere as a whole , all but a very few homeotherms in tropical regions lose heat constantly to the environment . |
| 15 | Candidates whose spending remained below the thresholds of $600,000 for the House and $5,500,000 for the Senate , would be eligible for federal campaign funds . |
| 16 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 17 | Two pieces 11¼ × 16⅜in for the ends , two pieces 16⅜ × 33⅝in for the sides and two pieces 10½ × 33½in for the top and bottom . |
| 18 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 19 | TSW-TELEVISION South West reported taxable profits of £3.19m for the year to 31 July , compared with £3m in the previous year . |
| 20 | The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan . |
| 21 | The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan . |
| 22 | Riva Group Plc has reported net profits of £102,000 for the year to December 31 against losses of £3.2m last time , after £397,000 restructuring costs and £282,000 gains from the settlement of litigation following the liquidation of the group 's Swedish subsidiary this time and £789,000 restructuring costs last time , including £365,000 costs due to re-financing arrangements , on turnover that rose 3.7% to £59.4m . |
| 23 | The opportunities in this model for passing the buck between the NHS and social services would be legion . |
| 24 | The Image Series is out now , and costs £1,735 for the Image 433 and £2,175 for the Image 466 with 170Mb hard disks . |
| 25 | Prices range from £81.95 to £106.95 for the drills , with charges ranging from £17.95 for a two-hour charge model , £35.95 for a one-hour charger , to £129.95 for a 15-minute charger . |
| 26 | A pre-tax profit of nearly $42m for the quarter represents an improvement of almost $71m in what is traditionally a difficult winter quarter . |
| 27 | These costs are partly offset by revenues from the sale of the signal to other users , which were estimated to be £235,000 during the experiment . |
| 28 | It was profitable on turnover of $3.2m for the quarter to March 31st . |
| 29 | Prices have not been agreed as yet though US prices of $2,000 to $2,800 for the EO 440 and $3,000 to $3,300 for the EO 880 provide a hint on pricing . |
| 30 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |