Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law says 16 years ' wrongful imprisonment for murder is worth £100,000 damages . |
| 2 | Between 1982 and 1986 the value of Chase 's stock rose by 86% : of Chemical 's by 97% : of Citicorps by 83% while Morgan and Banker 's Trust 's shot up by 142 and 154% respectively.10 |
| 3 | The consignment of strawberries was worth £25,000 . |
| 4 | ‘ ECT is usually left to junior members of the staff … with little training and guidance ’ , A leading psychiatrist in the field told New Scientist that ‘ the commonest misuse of ECT is on people who are really unhappy , distressed or sad , rather than ill with a depressive illness . ’ |
| 5 | If , however , an estate agent in England says , ’ I think that this street of properties is worth £35,000 , or £45,000 or £58,000 ’ and it is just on the borderline between bands , who will get the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 6 | The idea of race is in people 's heads only , but they act on that idea . |
| 7 | Another type of use is for Sales and Marketing , which is expected to grow considerably in the future . |
| 8 | The actual payment at time of writing is between £1.50 and £1.70 per hour per child , but with a possible reduction for any second and subsequent child . |
| 9 | European Commission spokesman Chris North says that the intention of legislation is for aircraft to be transferred between the civil aircraft registers of EC states without additional work , but that this will apply only to new aircraft , type-certificated under JARs . |
| 10 | How many cups of nuts are in 30kg ? |
| 11 | Each piece of glass is worth £1,000 . |
| 12 | Attractive dolls with fabric faces in a variety of clothes are from £9 to £14 , with Santa Claus at £14 . |
| 13 | An inn-keeper like H. Goble of Petworth was worth £561 when his will was proved in 1670 ; the local glover , N. Warner , died in 1645 worth £1539 , most of which was held in mortgages on other men 's property . |
| 14 | Thus ( ignoring a few complications and qualifications ) , if a piece of land was worth £500 in its existing use but was sold for £3,500 with planning permission , the levy was applied to the difference , that is , £3,000 ; the levy , at the initial rate , was £1,200 . |
| 15 | It is labour-intensive , and accounts — says Kidder , Pea-body , a firm of stockbrokers expert in the topic — for about three-quarters of America 's near $25 billion of solid-waste costs . |
| 16 | The 90-year-old Dowager DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER is worth £26.5 million , but also gets £90,000 a year from the public purse . |
| 17 | Erm if I remember correctly the pre-War price for hanging a wall up , a roll of wallpaper was about sixpence a roll , and that included preparing as well . |
| 18 | So , Percent for Art is about people . |
| 19 | Between the third and sixth hour , the relative increase in gastric emptying time under psyllium was between 10% and 20% ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 20 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 21 | Harlow youth theatre now with our developing links with Harlow College and it 's performing arts division er is now based in the College with tutor 's from staff of the college who 's job is one way er that that we could we could push it forward . |
| 22 | Another way of linking through topic is by means of subject matter introduced in the textbook for language practice . |
| 23 | Mr Aird who has visited nearly all the guide 's 5,000 hang-outs reckons beer in Liverpool is between 15p and 20p cheaper than anywhere else in the country . |
| 24 | The easiest method of producing hydrogen from water is by means of electrolysis . |
| 25 | Correction : our Moscow correspondent has had second thoughts , and now advises us that Hewlett-Packard Co 's contract with Asuneft in Siberia is worth $3m ( CI No 2,118 ) . |
| 26 | Let us say it is worth 60% of Newco. ( 2 ) Newco is worth £1,000 ( ignoring discounts inherent in the cost of unlocking the value of Target from Newco ) so management 's shares in Newco are worth £600 . |
| 27 | The couple 's flat in Wandsworth was worth £64,000 against a mortgage debt of £83,000 when the bank gave notice of repossession . |
| 28 | Careers in computing are for people with common sense , the ability to think clearly and logically , the capacity to adapt readily to change , and the skill to communicate and work closely with others . |
| 29 | Erm in general people desire approval more often than they do n't , so the general tendency in conversations is for people to converge to each other in many situations . |
| 30 | His creditors who met in the Waterloo Hotel in Edinburgh on 20 January 1826 were told Scott 's liabilities were £104,081 and his estate available for realization was worth £48,494 . |