Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A carefully targeted marketing plan ensured Balbirnie House an occupancy rate of over 50% during it first 18 months of business . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co is shipping MPower , its client/server software for real-time communication and collaboration , priced at $99 for the client-side , 80% off its $495 list , until September 30 . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co is shipping MPower , its client-server software for real-time communication and collaboration , at $100 for the client-side , 80% off its $500 list price , until September 30 . |
| 4 | But the fee is still likely to go to an independent tribunal with Forest apparently asking £3m for their former manager 's son . |
| 5 | Trafalgar paid less than £3m for it back in 1976 , five years after it purchased Cunard . |
| 6 | He was asking £3m for it . |
| 7 | This particular setting is very authentic and the cadets have had only the company of sheep during their enthusiastic quest for insurgents . |
| 8 | KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues . |
| 9 | And how about a brace of grouse for ourselves ? |
| 10 | ‘ Are you asking me to collect the grouse for you ? ’ |
| 11 | Between the Royal Burgh of Wick , the administrative centre on the east coast , and Thurso to the north , lies a fertile plain , stocked with the fine North Country Cheviot sheep for which Caithness is famous , and neat , well-tended fields of oats and barley . |
| 12 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 13 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 14 | GLOBESPAN has cut £40 off its Gatwick to Toronto fares until early December . |
| 15 | He payed without a murmur , but on being asked for 4d for his share of tea , exploded saying " Who in ****** hell has been drinking tea " . |
| 16 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 17 | And then er we 'd maybe get thruppence between us and let one go and pay to g to in the pictures and open the , lift the bar up , the emergency exit , and get in on our hands and knees behind the curtain . |
| 18 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 19 | There is also LEAN , which is essential Thompson , Roddick and Laurie ; Beacon , based at York , selling mainly sheep through its Carlisle franchise ; and CLASS , the variation on a theme of bidding for cattle shown on video by satellite relay . |
| 20 | They were presented by the Treasury with £1,000 between them for their services . |
| 21 | They 've roped in drummer Chris Acland of Lush and guitarist Russell Yates of Moose for their cautious ground-testing comeback gig , a sort of one-off , growing indie supergroup . |
| 22 | OUP 's offer ( 50% off its new encyclopedic dictionary ) was designed to stimulate teacher recommendations and thus generate long term sales . |
| 23 | Without committing itself to any firm numbers yet , the company made an analogy to its new database , Access , which lists for $495 and was discounted to $99 for its debut . |
| 24 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 25 | Some of the new elements , such as broadcasting , are still housed in their old buildings pending the imminent conclusion of the negotiations for taking over a headquarters for everyone , probably in Trafalgar Square . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , it 's back to headquarters for you now . ’ |
| 27 | The club were accused of making illegal payments to players and more dramatically , Macari was fined £1,000 for his part in a betting scandal after a bet of £6,500 had been placed on Swindon to lose in a cup match against Newcastle . |
| 28 | Dunlop said that £2,000 had been agreed as the full value of the horse and that he was to pay Kilpatrick £1,000 for his half-share . |
| 29 | John Cousens , secretary of Patients Aid , said : ‘ Steven wins two prizes , £1,000 for his favourite charity and £250 for himself . ’ |
| 30 | Phil , from Paddington , West London , who has been a postman for 20 years , also wins £1,000 for his sorting office . |