Example sentences of "[n mass] and a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 If a lobster weighs 3¾kg and a crab weighs 1⅕kg , how much more than the crab does the lobster weigh ? |
| 2 | While he was out painting a cottage , two sheep and a goat ambled up over the roof and grazed on its turf . |
| 3 | The Southport angling fanatic towed his boat — complete with electronic fish finder — across the border and raided the lakes in fine style to catch 19 pike weighing between 16lb and a monster scaling 26lb 4oz . |
| 4 | We had a late luncheon , cold fowl and a salad got up by Liza , walked in the Park in the afternoon , worked , and in the evening had a dish of warm milk and white bread , sprinkled with sugar , quite as Wordsworth himself might have done . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the water-lily never flowers and the goldfish perished , but the bamboo , Pseudosasa muriel-ae , ferns , hosta and a camellia flourish nearby . |
| 6 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 7 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 8 | Where you have a group of people and a brick comes out of the group and lands on a policeman 's head , then it 's very difficult for the law to attach individual and specific guilt to a particular individual . |
| 9 | Strong groups of men were not needed on the artificial waterways ; two people and a horse sufficed . |
| 10 | A petition calling for an inquiry into the allegations was signed by 15,118 people and a delegation headed by Raymond Wolseley of the Junior Chamber of Commerce went to Stormont to plead , vainly , for a change of policy . |
| 11 | Each request for assessment will be ‘ screened ’ by an experienced member of staff and a decision made about the best type of assessment to be offered , by whom and when . |
| 12 | They accepted $200,000 and a reservation embracing much of their traditional homeland , while retaining the rights to their traditional hunting and fishing grounds . |
| 13 | A total of 898 members of the Irish National Flying Club had 3,290 young birds in Penzance for the event in which they competed for £20,600 and a video sponsored by Salisbury Laboratories . |
| 14 | Three children 's bikes , worth £75 and a skateboard valued at £90 were taken from a garden on Proudfoot Drive , Bishop Auckland , on Saturday . |