Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [n mass] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A salvage operation was under way for the £6 million chopper . |
| 2 | They Old Trafford 's senior strikers are in no mood to budge for the £1.2 million Frenchman , who showed his pedigree on Eusebio 's big night in Lisbon this week . |
| 3 | Sludds , winner of the title in 1984 , has been struggling unsuccessfully to make an impression on the European tour , but now looks a very good bet indeed for the £10,000 first prize in the Irish Championship . |
| 4 | The Central Office of Information has reduced the shortlist for the £35m centralised television buying account to The Media Centre , Young & Rubicam and Zenith . |
| 5 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 6 | He complained the decision to bring forward the start date for the £10 million sun sea and sex drama from September to July left him high and dry . |
| 7 | A cluster of top stars , including Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper , were signed for the £30 million film — PLUS Oscar-winning backroom boys behind such hits as The Commitments and Dances With Wolves . |
| 8 | During the two occasions on which we talked , he seemed a caring and compassionate doctor blessed with a natural ease and affability , who needed publicity for the £2 million appeal he had launched to raise money to turn his Harley Street office into a well woman centre . |
| 9 | The European Commission finally gave approval for the £2 billion bid to go ahead in August 1989 , having required that part of Plessey 's activities should continue under their own name . |
| 10 | His nearest challenger for the £37,500 first prize , which would push his official winnings since 1971 to £1,020,545 , is Scotland 's Bill Longmuir , whose 75 for 217 included a triple-bogey seven at the 10th . |
| 11 | ‘ I was short all day , ’ said Faldo , who trailed by only two strokes in the chase for the $400,000 first prize . |
| 12 | MORE than 80 banks are thought to be studying final proposals for the £1.4 billion debt refinancing plan to rescue the property and trading group , Heron . |
| 13 | The World Bank and Japan have already stopped aid for the US$1,000 million project , a network of about 30 dams being built across three states , against a background of mounting concern about its human and environmental consequences [ see EDs 69 , 70 ] . |
| 14 | Torrance arrived in time yesterday for nine holes practice behind the pro-am field and like the rest of the contenders for the £41,660 first prize was delighted by the condition of this Donald Steel-designed course amid the pines . |
| 15 | In the meantime the company is seeking to win hearts and minds among communities on both sides of the Mersey and to attract national and international investment for the £880 million project . |
| 16 | Compared with the old system , increases in the marginal tax rate ( MTR ) are seen to occur for the £75-£115 weekly pay band with the average tax rate ( ATR ) falling , indicating that both substitution and income effects should pull in this range towards less work . |
| 17 | The Department of Social Security is paying £1,833 a week for the £832,500 interest-only mortgage on Tree Top Farm , set in 66 acres near Haslemere , Surrey . |
| 18 | In order to get some value for the $30 Rumanian border visa fee , we did a frantic but exciting car trip north to the Rumanian/Russian border . |
| 19 | Michael Meacock , underwriter for the £47 million Syndicate 727 , a pre-1914 syndicate also facing pollution claims , has decided to keep 1989 open . |
| 20 | Michael Meacock , underwriter for the £47 million Syndicate 727 , a pre-1914 syndicate also facing pollution claims , has decided to keep 1989 open . |
| 21 | Vicki Horner ( Newburn ) is the third fastest qualifier for the 400m individual medley , behind Olympians Helen Slatter and Sharron Davies , and is seeded fourth in the 200m . |
| 22 | He will still pick up £9 million for the £43 million film . |
| 23 | An example ( of the format of a micro-instruction for the Data General Eclipse computer , taken from Data General 1977 ) is given in Figure 3.22(a) . |
| 24 | Foreman was first choice for the $20 million showdown in China . |
| 25 | A large surplus would have resulted but for the $20 billion rise in the cost of oil imports as the OPEC price increases coincided with — indeed , were encouraged by — rising US oil imports ( chapter 13 ) . |
| 26 | Work on the 1,300MW power plant was due to begin in March or April , but an international donors ' meeting to set contributions for the $1,300 million project had been postponed in December . |
| 27 | NEC also expects to provide manufacturing support for the Acer Inc PICA chip set , another Windows NT system design for manufacturers of low-cost machines . |
| 28 | NEC also expects to provide manufacturing support for the Acer Inc PICA chip set , another Windows NT system design for manufacturers of low-cost machines . |
| 29 | IF THERE is such a thing as theatre for the people this comedy thriller probably comes close to delivering the goods . |
| 30 | This is in the range expected for similar-sized macromolecular complexes , but less than the 2,900 2 observed for the trp repressor-operator complex . |