Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 2 | SD ACOUSTICS IS ANOTHER IN THAT RICH crop of small British manufacturers with something interesting to say to the discerning listener who is wiling to seek out a brand that is by no means as widely distributed in the shops as it deserves to be . |
| 3 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 4 | The behaviour of the working class husband was by no means as charitably assessed . |
| 5 | Looking after people and not making a fuss when they do annoying things . ’ |
| 6 | A strong bloc of townsmen worth £10 and upwards made the average wealth of Bodmin , Cornwall , a trifle higher than in the rest of Trigg hundred , even though the taxed wage earners , who formed a negligible element in the country parishes , exceeded 40 per cent in the borough itself , numbers which point to a concentration of men who had effectively severed kinship ties with the Celtic extended family that so influenced the social structure of many villages . |
| 7 | A common formula used throughout the trade is to multiply cost price by 2.35 ; this proved equitable to supplier and vendor alike , giving a margin of 50% while still allowing for VAT . |
| 8 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 9 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 10 | This is a type of aircraft that really reminds you what your feet are for . |
| 11 | Parachutes do not fall within the definition of aircraft and neither do hovercraft so they , too , are excluded . |
| 12 | Two er requirements for the future that er seem to be er er desirable are stealth and what could be stealthier than the present generation of aircraft and secondly to prevent you having to go over your target you 're likely to be shot down so that you need a stand up weapon capability , er if the payload is somewhat limited can it still carry stand off weapons that are effective ? |
| 13 | Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car . |
| 14 | how to use simple tests of association between sets of data and how to measure the strength of the association |
| 15 | When Rc is in left hand half of dial , it is sometimes easier to note the number of degrees Rc is left of 0° and then subtract that number of degrees from your HDG. 9 . |
| 16 | Bob Hoover 's well-known P-51D Mustang Old Yeller had a reserve of $1m and only reached $500,000 in the bidding . |
| 17 | In either case sums of £10 or less earn no interest . |
| 18 | Scottish litigation is undertaken in the Sheriff Court and there are two separate procedures : one for debts over £1000 called ordinary causes and one for debts of £1000 or less called summary causes . |
| 19 | It seems , although the statement of claim does not set out the matter in any systematic way , that C.M.C. drew down the full loan of £420,000 and subsequently defaulted in its payments to B.M.T. It does not appear precisely how the £420,000 was expended by C.M.C. After obtaining the possession order in respect of the bakery , B.M.T. sold it for about £183,000 . |
| 20 | The quayside was cluttered with coils of rope , lobster pots , netting and piles of empty wooden crates — old , frail-looking things that awaited loads of fish that never came . |
| 21 | While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’ |
| 22 | When we got there we had to species of fish and then take it out and |
| 23 | It was probably for this reason that the parish registers were not fully established until the reign of Elizabeth I , the fear of taxation and also that the clergy of this period had a dislike of statistics and generally met the injunction by a policy of passive resistance . |
| 24 | Interest is paid on a tiered basis but balances of £3,000 or more receive the full rate , currently 6.88% a year . |
| 25 | JCT 80 provides that ’ Full discharge by the Contractor in respect of payments for materials or goods supplied by the Nominated Supplier shall be effected within 30 days of the end of the month during which delivery is made less only a discount for cash of 5% if so paid . ’ |
| 26 | Accordingly , he ‘ did up ’ the car ( then worth £20 ) at a cost of £85 and then sold it for £100 . |
| 27 | The new stand was completed in November 1932 at a cost of £45,000 and formally opened the following month by the Prince of Wales . |
| 28 | In the same counties , with the addition of Cornwall and Rutland , the median for eighty-five esquires was about £60 compared with £80 from 124 feodary surveys ; several men were worth upwards of £200 and clearly correspond with the first group of gentlemen in the table . |
| 29 | He gained a lot of brownie points , for example , when the company announced its record interim losses of £45.1m and then revealed plans to sell off the majority of is leisure division . |
| 30 | They are usable by any member of staff when not required by students . |