Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the ambient conditions in the British Isles are acceptable for goldfish at most times of the year . |
| 2 | The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000 , accounting for 80% of total group turnover . |
| 3 | Therefore , after due consideration , the Council sold their powers in the Mitcham Light Railways to the British Electric Traction Co. for £1,000 on 15 January 1902 . |
| 4 | Accounts for 50% of all UK gin exports . |
| 5 | After treatment there was no change in the parietal cell sensitivity to stepped infusions of gastrin heptadecapeptide : the median concentration of gastrin required for 50% of maximal acid secretion ( EC 5 ) was 41 ( 14.8–126 ) before and 33 ( 23–125 ) pmol/l after eradication of H pylori . |
| 6 | A comparison of the three types of system is possible , using the mean values of each parameter and taking the ‘ 29th edition ’ performance as 100% in each case . |
| 7 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 8 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , made an appeal to the international community on Dec. 5 for $13,800,000 in humanitarian aid to assist the estimated 350,000 Liberians in the war-ravaged capital , Monrovia , who were in urgent need of food and medical aid . |
| 9 | Grassland predominated in the 4,770 hectares of arable ground accounting for 83% of this acreage . |
| 10 | Cell extracts ( 0.3μg protein per assay ) were incubated for 30min with phospholipid vesicles containing PtdIns(4,5)P 2 at the concentrations of free Ca 2+ indicated at the abscissa . |
| 11 | Cells were pretreated for 30min with blocking antibodies . |
| 12 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 13 | Guerrillas in Kashmir used rockets for the first time on June 19 , in an attack on two waterfront hotels in Srinagar which were being used as barracks by Indian security forces . |
| 14 | A fine nude female figure dating from the early years of the artist 's career ( lot 310 , est. £60,000–80,000 ) was purchased for £115,000 by a bidder seated in the room against competition from New York dealer , David Nehmad , who captured Dubuffet 's ‘ Promenade Agreste ’ ( lot 314 , est. £65,000–85,000 ) for £128,000 against several telephone bidders . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's great for me to be able to turn down offers worth £6.5m for two players in a fortnight , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The Safety Commission of the International Air Transport Association , IATA , has recommended a partial ban aboard aircraft on electronic devices such as computer games made by Nintendo Co Ltd , to avoid interference with aircraft systems : it calls for a ban on the use of all passenger-carried electronic devices during taxi , takeoff , initial climb approach and landing in a confidential letter written by the committee and obtained by Reuters . |
| 17 | The network , which reportedly cost $3.5m in R&D , will retail for $5,000 for ten workstations , with discounts on bulk orders . |
| 18 | The government appealed for $273,000,000 in external aid at the launch of its emergency relief programme for 1989/90 at a meeting with international donors in Luanda on Sept. 21-22 , 1989 . |
| 19 | The guide is available for £55 from Commercial Initiative , 124 Lambton Road , London SW20 . |
| 20 | A week 's accommodation costs between £15 in low season and £48 a person . |
| 21 | Salivary contamination of the oesophagus accounted for 25% of all bicarbonate measured within the oesophagus and refluxed gastric bicarbonate accounted for 2.5% . |
| 22 | Apart from the trophy the winner receives £60 , a tankard and a voucher for £35 for solid fuel . |
| 23 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 24 | The usual procedure is for a sample , which is then referred to as the ‘ panel ’ , to be selected in the usual way , as described on pp. 35–9 above , and for data about this sample to be collected at regular intervals over a period of years . |
| 25 | Our model , although it requires more than one site of learning , accounts for data from multiple laboratories and reconciles observations that had been thought previously to be contradictory . |
| 26 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 27 | By resisting Sperrle 's request for aircraft on 11 April , Franco had caused a temporary hiatus in the progress of the northern campaign while he focused his full attention on its internal political aspect . |
| 28 | They bought 21 UK groups for £918m in the nine months , which compared with 62 deals worth £382m by British companies in France . |
| 29 | This is a common cause for referral to a general medical/gastroenterology clinic , accounting for 3% of new referrals in Lincoln . |
| 30 | Golf haul : Thieves wheeled away a trolley and golf clubs worth £950 from outside Walton Hall Golf Club , Warrington . |