Example sentences of "[n mass] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The 600 is priced from £13,995 for the 620i to £21,995 for the top-of-the-range 623GSi which I tested recently . |
| 32 | All prices for cushions are inclusive of the feather pad and VAT and start from £7.95 for a cotton , contrast piped , 16″ × 16″ cushion with a choice of 30 colours ! |
| 33 | Values obtaining south of the Humber — at least 5s. for a cow or 4s. for a steer — can hardly have applied : even the smallest stock farm must have carried more than just one or two ; sheep fetched 1s. apiece in other parts . |
| 34 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 35 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 36 | gain a weighted aggregate of 50% for the area of study overall . |
| 37 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 38 | Assuming a mean temperature of 14°C for the earth and lower atmosphere as a whole , all but a very few homeotherms in tropical regions lose heat constantly to the environment . |
| 39 | It is £2,265 for the full grant and £420 for the student loan — in total a yearly income of just £2,685 . |
| 40 | Even though the school site was very open and the playground used by hordes of unsupervised teenagers and children in the evenings and weekends the only graffiti for a number of years was a ‘ smiley face ’ with the headteacher 's name scrawled beneath . |
| 41 | Candidates whose spending remained below the thresholds of $600,000 for the House and $5,500,000 for the Senate , would be eligible for federal campaign funds . |
| 42 | Wet moorland may support 1 sheep for every 3/4 hectares ; moorland converted to a rye grass sward can support 10 sheep per hectare . |
| 43 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 44 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 45 | The money they had to pay the sheep for the Cuddly Woolly Protection Racket did seem a lot . |
| 46 | Prices start from £40,995 for a studio and £49,995 for one-bedroom flats . |
| 47 | Two pieces 11¼ × 16⅜in for the ends , two pieces 16⅜ × 33⅝in for the sides and two pieces 10½ × 33½in for the top and bottom . |
| 48 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 49 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 50 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 51 | It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% . |
| 52 | M&J Ross and Son of Romesbeoch , Shawhead , Dumfries , received a 3,400gn bid for their Zora of Romesbeoch from J&JW Ions of Thorneyburn , Hexham and RT Lawson and Son , Airlies Farm , Wigtown , went to 2,800gns for the second prizewinner Zulu , the September l991 bull brought out by Ian Henderson of Langholm . |
| 53 | SCO claims 31% of multi-user accounting systems costing under £50,000 installed in the UK run on its flavour of Unix , whilst London-based market research firm , Ovum Ltd — which says accounting is by far the largest application software sector in the UK — forecasts an annual growth rate of around 23% for the Unix-based accounting software market to 1995 . |
| 54 | At home , if the washing machine blows up , M.V. Services in Thamesmead will charge you £23.44 for an hour of a washing machine engineer 's time . |
| 55 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 56 | TSW-TELEVISION South West reported taxable profits of £3.19m for the year to 31 July , compared with £3m in the previous year . |
| 57 | The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan . |
| 58 | The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan . |
| 59 | Riva Group Plc has reported net profits of £102,000 for the year to December 31 against losses of £3.2m last time , after £397,000 restructuring costs and £282,000 gains from the settlement of litigation following the liquidation of the group 's Swedish subsidiary this time and £789,000 restructuring costs last time , including £365,000 costs due to re-financing arrangements , on turnover that rose 3.7% to £59.4m . |
| 60 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |