Example sentences of "a [n mass] [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul , who is based in Wigan , received a £250 voucher and started the second half of the competition as favourite to win the £500 end of year prize . |
| 2 | The provisions pushed the bank to a $10m loss and caused a profound shock to ripple through the Midland 's executive offices in Poultry . |
| 3 | Best of all is a series of self-mocking ballads to himself , The Eight Voyages of Sanctimonious Bones , whose multi-rhyming stanzas seem inexhaustible : ‘ O take your soul , like a goldfish bowl and place it on your head , Then think not of loss but intrepidly cross the dangerous road , ’ it said . |
| 4 | Prodescon has already started work at Haywards Heath in Sussex , where it is building a £3.3m. 50-bed private hospital for Independent Care , and at Bradford , where it is building a £3m. extension and refurbishing the Yorkshire Clinic for Community Hospitals . |
| 5 | Therefore , if you had a £20,000 mortgage and wanted to raise a further £8,000 for home improvements , you could only claim tax relief on the first £20,000 . |
| 6 | The court heard he had placed the original bet for a £1 stake and paid 10p tax at Ladbrokes in his home town . |
| 7 | Lane , 31 , who opened with a 20ft birdie and went within four inches of an albatross two with a one iron at the eighth , matched the two-under par 286 of Canizares , who led by five overnight but three-putted the final green for a 74 . |
| 8 | But Derek — who has just bought a £10,000 car and added a two-storey extension to his five-bedroom semi , hit back : ‘ I am a workaholic . |
| 9 | It grows to 2.1m in height with a 80cm spread and has pink-tinged , deep yellow flowers . |
| 10 | Once aboard , Roger our friendly tutor , introduced us to the art of running and handling a 60′ boat and coping with locks . |
| 11 | It also serves as a comprehensive set of operating system extensions which help to turn any MS-DOS computer into a multimedia workstation and controls not only the real-time display of video but the video source itself . |
| 12 | Almost instantly as I sang , a trout rose and grabbed my tail fly , a size 16 Silver Butcher . |
| 13 | Immediately , a trout rose and grabbed his bob fly . |
| 14 | CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a livestock market and housing estate outside Darlington have taken a step forward . |
| 15 | While you can buy a 50p leaflet and walk round the town yourself , looking for the small metal footsteps that have been placed in significant sites , it 's much more rewarding to go with one of the town 's Cadfael experts , like Esme Green . |
| 16 | On Nov. 25 Canada cancelled a $11,000,000 debt and agreed $22,000,000 in further aid and on Dec. 4 Saudi Arabia pledged $1,500 million in aid . |
| 17 | The Cerne Giant at Cerne Abbas in Dorset is a naked man , 180ft tall , brandishing a 120ft club and displaying a huge phallus . |
| 18 | ‘ If I can take out a £420 loan and have ten years to pay it back , I 'll just pick up the cheque and go out and get ratted , ’ he said . |
| 19 | FEARS were voiced last night over a plan by the North-Eastern Co-Op to build a £9.5m superstore and housing development in Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | A senior officer arrived in a staff car and ordered the boat to be removed immediately . |
| 21 | It went on : ‘ The board of governors acknowledges the widespread public and staff concern that John Birt was not employed on a staff basis and accepts full responsibility for the errors made and apologises for them . ’ |
| 22 | We recently had a similar experience in terms of a media debate and entering into it , in our work with lone parents . |
| 23 | As we are trying to keep the whole publication as simple as possible this means that we 'll use Times again but if your page printer is n't a PostScript device you may have to create the title in a graphics package and import it . |
| 24 | The vehicle then careered across the road , down a 4ft embankment and stopped on the beach . |
| 25 | She was wearing a mink jacket and struggling to get out of it . |
| 26 | Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 . |
| 27 | Having established the torque correction factors for the common excitation schemes of a three.phase motor and illustrated the method by which the factor may be found for motors with larger numbers of phases , we can now consider how the pull-out torque produced by the d.c. and fundamental current components varies with stepping rate . |
| 28 | The Leeds United manager was not content to pocket a £5,000 cheque and bask in the glory of his Manager of the Year award . |
| 29 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 30 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |