Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] of [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 2 | This enigmatic statement does not inspire total confidence , though their division of works into subjects imaginary works , lines , imprints etc does work well . |
| 3 | Russell is the president of this group and says that it is unique within Morton because of its proportion of sales in Europe — some $200m out of $440m . |
| 4 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 5 | Moody 's , the influential US credit-rating agency , is reviewing its opinion of $248million worth ( £157million ) of Dixons debt in the wake of this week 's bid for the electronics retailer by Kingfisher . |
| 6 | Matthew Clark will now pay its interim of 6.75p on 5 April . |
| 7 | Their price of £4,000 to anyone who could find a typographical error in their works remains unclaimed to this day . |
| 8 | So they asked me if it was possible the Josephs were bringing drugs in from France along with their haul of works of art . ’ |
| 9 | Their intake of 40g to 60g daily is thought , by many medical experts and eminent medical authorities , to be highly significant in relation to the fact that major killers of the Western world , like cancer of the bowel and heart disease , are virtually unknown in these high fibre consuming societies . |
| 10 | In spite of concern that budgetary restrictions might have forced its cancellation , the Fondation Pierre Gianadda is proceeding with its exhibition of works by Ben Nicholson ( until 31 January ) . |
| 11 | A breakdown of the latest figures shows that the consumer electronics division made an operating loss of $31.1m , similar to its shortfall of $33.4m in the same period last year . |
| 12 | Sums invested are smaller ( the average buyout was down last year to £1.9m from its peak of £2.6m in 1989 . ) |
| 13 | ICI 's pre-tax profits collapsed from their peak of £1.5bn in 1989 to £843m last year , on sales down from £13.1bn to £12.5bn . |
| 14 | Today , Amstrad shares have dropped from their peak of £2.34 to just 28p — less than half what its assets are valued at . |
| 15 | In 1988 the average cost of collecting and disposing of the rubbish from an American household was about $90 — against its spending of $120 on newspapers or $450 on telephone service . |
| 16 | The church must seek to develop its spiritual and personal resources to minister imaginatively and responsibly in all of these situations in its care of people from the cradle to the grave . |
| 17 | This chapter summarises the way the action project worked , through the researchers ' observations , their interviews with the development officers , and their analysis of data about the action sample clients . |
| 18 | West and Lowe concluded from their analysis of data in the fourteen hospital board regions in England and Wales that the provision of GPs and health visitors in the region was negatively correlated with such indicators of need as infant mortality rate , stillbirth rate and birth rate to mothers aged 15–19 years . |
| 19 | Her mother had handed over most of her fortune of £50,000 to Rotha and this was used to fund the organization . |
| 20 | HP said some of the factors that raised its cost of sales in the fourth quarter are not new and are likely to continue . |
| 21 | The index of the city 's wealth is its contribution of £1,704 to the subsidy , which , although far ahead of that of any other provincial town , was only slightly more than a tenth of London 's £16675 . |
| 22 | No part of Russia 's social fabric is more durable than its network of people with research at heart . |
| 23 | Moynihan said that the government is to reassess its target of 1000MW of renewable energy by the year 2000 , as set out in the White Paper on the Environment . |
| 24 | The Crown just about reached its target of £260,000 from this device . |
| 25 | No lovelier sight was ever seen than the herring drifters coming in with their catch of herring on a calm sea in the mornings . |
| 26 | Not least , he had gained the confidence of the directors , for his outlay of £3,000 for new players was offset by gate receipts almost double those of the previous season , producing £400 profit , the best since 1907 . |
| 27 | Lombroso 's work , for example , was based on his examination of people in prison in Italy . |
| 28 | Within ten minutes , Woodrow Wilson had consulted with his chiefs of staff in the war room , and decided to go ahead with the contingency plan . |
| 29 | One of the best known followed his offer of £500 to anyone who could reproduce the box used in his box trick . |
| 30 | Probably this aggression had determined his choice of aircraft for the day 's flying — P-51B model 42–106929 . |