Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [verb] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Published by Earthscan the books are available from booksellers , price £6.95 for Acid Earth , and £4.95 for Taking Population Seriously . |
| 2 | Note that the actual magnitude of this correlation coefficient is partly a result of reducing the variance in the data by correlating averages rather than averaging correlations . |
| 3 | Admission is £7 for adults , and £3 for accompanied children under 12 years old . |
| 4 | His heir was fined £20,000 , even though his father had obtained a pardon from James I. The Earl of Westmorland was fined £19,000 , and Sir Christopher Hatton £12,000 ; Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant . |
| 5 | In a society such as ours , based on oral tradition , we must use our cultural expressions as a means of getting messages across and transform attitudes on basic issues . ’ |
| 6 | Yet , sad to relate , the majority of college lecturers probably still regard lectures as the primary means of getting information across to their students . |
| 7 | Social workers and SSDs walk a tightrope between maintaining the spirit of partnership and creating a new , relatively unaccountable means of taking children away . |
| 8 | Effects of loss of school as a focus for community activities and cooperation , or as a means of bringing people together ; loss of the activities themselves . |
| 9 | The idea of social security as a proper charge on the State , and of the use in consequence of taxation as a means of distributing wealth more widely , lay well beyond the British political horizon . |
| 10 | This is not a sentimental journey in quest of ways and means of making life easier for the offender , but a realistic attempt to tackle the economic problem of saving the community from the losses and suffering caused by the anti-social activities of criminals . |
| 11 | It is an unselective means of making conviction more likely for both the guilty and the innocent in about equal proportion . |
| 12 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 13 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 14 | In some circumstances , the information thus gained may itself be relevant to issues in pending proceedings , in which case the order is a means of obtaining evidence abroad . |
| 15 | What was most striking about the CMHTs , however , was that each of the teams sought to become involved with people with learning disabilities primarily in order to achieve planned changes in lifestyles , choices and opportunities . |
| 16 | In some systems this increased efficiency shows savings between 30% and 50% on handling efficiency alone . |
| 17 | The same accounting methods are applied over a series of reporting periods so that trends can be identified and comparisons made . |
| 18 | Anglia/ITV have produced a series of teaching manuals together with related data to be analysed using KEY software on the topic Socio-Economic Atlas of Great Britain . |
| 19 | They found their literary expression in a series of haunting elegies generally considered to contain some of the finest love poetry in the English language . |
| 20 | Although the solo danseuses perform sur les pointes , they still mark the appropriate beats by stabbing their toes into the floor , i.e. they dance a series of retirés passés forwards or backwards without descending and use typical Hungarian ports de bras . |