Example sentences of "[n mass] in [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 Donald Campbell raised both land and water speed marks during 1964 , the former to 403.1mph in July and the latter to 276.3mph on New Years Eve .
2 In addition to such single-industry , cross-country studies the recent availability of quantitative survey data in Britain and the United States has now made it possible to test some explanatory hypotheses of bargaining structures more systematically across a much broader cross-section of industries .
3 Im 100% behind putting a msg in TSB and the prog .
4 Folk in Yorkshire and the North East go to a pub to socialise .
5 Prices tumbled to £1,638 per tonne in June after an agreement between management and workers at Noranda 's copper refinery in Montreal , but rose sharply to £1,896 in October as the market experienced the effects of the closure in May of the Bougainville mine in Papua New Guinea [ see pp. 36657 ; 36817 ] .
6 If convicted on all counts the defendants could face maximum prison sentences of 475-525 years , together with $17,000,000 in fines and the forfeiture of $265,000,000 worth of assets .
7 As incumbent of Ayrshire 's oldest Earldom , Glencairn was reluctant to agree to Macrae 's suggestion that he should marry a commoner , especially one of such lowly background , but abandoned his scruples when told that Elizabeth 's dowry was to be £45,000 in diamonds and the estate of Ochiltree which Macrae had bought for £25,000 .
8 He had been prosperous after the seige of Arcot ; after Plassey the new Nawab gave him £234,000 in cash and the right to land rents of £27,000 a year , which made him as rich as a great territorial magnate like the Duke of Newcastle .
9 For ages 14 to 30 ; £14 in London and the Home Counties , £7.50 elsewhere ( phone 071–379 1033 ) .
10 The involvement has so far cost Hachette 's shareholders £180m in provisions and the humiliation of being forced into an improbable merger with electronics group Matra .
11 The founding of the African Social Studies Project in 1969 , the establishment of its headquarters in Nairobi and the international workshops ( there were four ) have done something to advance knowledge and interest through the designing of packs of source material , teachers ' guides and trial units of varying quality .
12 This is done at the headquarters in Johannesburg while the play is on tour .
13 ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’
14 A unit of work might be based around a topic like ecology or the leisure interests of young people in Britain or the education systems of different countries .
15 I have done my best to understand and respond to the desire of people in Cardiff that the scheme should be set out in the Bill so that Parliament can consider it .
16 There are 14 people in Documentation and the department was established seven years ago when the old Royal Scottish Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities merged to become the National Museums of Scotland .
17 According to a recent Gallup survey of 1,034 adults throughout the UK commissioned by the Abbey National , people in Scotland and the north of England may not be .
18 Mr Rifkind said : ‘ Quite properly this will be of enormous concern to people in Darlington and the North-East . ’
19 Among the issues considered were homelessness , unemployment , children and young people in poverty and the benefits systems .
20 Rover set up their Career Challenge as a way of interesting young people in engineering and the car industry .
21 For example , in April 1991 a cyclone storm surge killed over 130,000 people in Bangladesh as the sea penetrated far inland over the low-lying coastlands .
22 In 1945 Ottawa wrote to Ira Dilworth suggesting that I be transferred to the general production staff in Toronto and the strength of his opposition and mine resulted in the postponement of such a move .
23 ‘ This feedback must help Technology to monitor performance with the ultimate beneficiaries being the staff in branches and the Bank 's customers ’ .
24 Calling the tour a " complete success " , Li told embassy staff in Bangkok that the visit had raised China 's international prestige , strengthened understanding with ASEAN , and helped to promote a solution to the Cambodian problem .
25 The Edinburgh Solicitors ' Property Centre , which handles 85 per cent of second-hand home sales in Edinburgh and the Lothians , said they had experienced a steady growth in the first two months of the year .
26 Raise £2,000 in sponsorship and the trip of a lifetime is yours for free .
27 So even if it managed to escape from the scientists ' clutches in Britain , it could not turn into another exotic pest , like the mink in Britain or the rabbit in Australia .
28 Orchard was one of the most distinguished architects of his time and seems throughout to have dealt with works in Oxford and the neighbourhood .
29 Similarly , institutional membership of the London Library affords access to a collection of rare works in literature and the humanities . )
30 Each plate in the book is over 381 x 305 mm in size and the printing is a technical tour de force .
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