Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [n mass] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial services including pensions and life insurance subsidiary Allied Dunbar , whose Liverpool office is one of the country 's best performers saw trading profits leap to £376m in the nine months from £142m . |
| 2 | But on average you will find er and you look at people in the pub you look in the bar tonight at the people having conversations and see how many symmetrical hand gestures there are . |
| 3 | Long-term profits of $14.6m compare with $15.5m in the first half of last year , but UK life operations make further strong progress |
| 4 | ‘ He has to suffer constant insults and talk from people in the neighbourhood and children and threats from some of the older relatives of children . ’ |
| 5 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 6 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
| 7 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 8 | ‘ For some cases , we 'd come back day after day , and chat to people in the queue . |
| 9 | He insisted that the field staff return to headquarters in the winter and this resulted in their having more contact with senior officers and colleagues . |
| 10 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 11 | That would reverse a trend which has seen customer disconnections fall by 70pc in the last 12 months . |
| 12 | That would reverse a trend which has seen customer disconnections fall by 70pc in the last 12 months . |
| 13 | Nurses , social workers , and remedial therapists care about people in the same way as doctors , lawyers , and architects but in addition they care for people ; a task which may involve the performance of unpleasant work connected with bodily functioning . |