Example sentences of "a [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S fifth-biggest life insurer , Scottish Widows , has been fined a whacking £120,000 for selling insurance policies to people who did n't need them . |
| 3 | DEC , which has already snapped up Mannesmann Kienzle and Philips Data Systems in Europe , will immediately buy a 4.03% stake in Olivetti from de Benedetti 's holding Campagnie Industriali Riunite for about $150m — a whacking 160% premium over the market price . |
| 4 | Really , doctors were , by and large , a hateful species . |
| 5 | Date , time , Sao 2 , plethysmographic waveforms , skin po 2 , breathing movements , and electrocardiograms were continuously monitored and recorded on to a 128 kB digital memory card ( 86×54×3 mm ) , which was continually updated with the last 20–30 minutes of data . |
| 6 | This machine has a baby AT motherboard using an UMC chipset and the AMI BIOS , and is spurred along by a 128 Kb cache . |
| 7 | The PCX format starts with a 128 byte header giving various general details , including bits/pixel , the number of bit planes , and the size of the image in pixels . |
| 8 | The BV1 and BV2 primers promoted the amplification of a 128 bp fragment from herpes B virus and herpes simplex viruses ( HSV ) 1 and 2 . |
| 9 | Listed site : Southlands Management , a subsidiary of Ian Waller Developments , the Eaglescliffe-based property investment company , has bought a 5,710 sq ft grade 2 listed building at 3 to 5 Crown Street ( above ) , Darlington , for around £500,000 . |
| 10 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 11 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 12 | Gardens are unique among man-made habitats in supporting a rich fauna , which includes species of woodland and open country as well as those characteristic of gardens . |
| 13 | After extensive conservation and repair work is completed , the Palace will house a rich series of displays showing how its apartments were used by the Stewart monarchs and their households , and a special display will be devoted to the carved wooden Stirling Heads which once decorated the ceiling of the King 's Presence Chamber . |
| 14 | She writes that , indeed , when there were balls or fêtes , there was sometimes a queue for the public lavatories , and then a rich bourgeois might pay a nobleman 's servant as much as four louis d'or to be conducted to his master 's privy . |
| 15 | ’ We are not a rich people . |
| 16 | It is helpful if a pupil who is totally dependent on the use of spectacles for schoolwork can have a reserve pair , since repairs can sometimes take time . |
| 17 | Televisa , Mexico 's TV giant , is building a Spanish-language media empire across the Americas . |
| 18 | It takes real determination to pack all the country house thriller cliches you can think of into half an hour , but TVS and Ian Stuart Black managed it in House of Glass ( ITV ) , an Appointment With Fear try-out for a post-franchise series . |
| 19 | Old Granary Mill is a friendly rendezvous . |
| 20 | This gourami is a friendly fish , with a personality , and comes to recognise its owner . |
| 21 | The Yugoslavs are a friendly people who are eager to please and will always be happy to help you . |
| 22 | Some of us have actually seen it on better days and a few have actually landed there , finding to their surprise that Fair Isle can be a pleasant green island with a fascinating geological structure and a friendly people . |
| 23 | A MORI Poll conducted in November 1988 showed that of a hypothetical £100 to be spent on cleaning up nitrates and pesticides in the public water supply , people felt industry should pay £39 , farmers £19 , the government £31 and the consumer £11 . |
| 24 | The top section will then be suitable for bite indication and provide the shock-absorber effect ; the bottom half will provide the power needed to turn a hard-fighting fish . |
| 25 | These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish . |
| 26 | The tales of the vessel 's outrageous life on the coastal trade became a highly-successful series starring Roddy McMillan and John Grieve . |
| 27 | The undercarriage included a crane-necked perch with semi-circular springs which were each capable , it was estimated , of bearing half a ton . |
| 28 | We are about to buy a new tank , 72″ × 24″ × 24″ , for a Red-tailed Catfish . |
| 29 | head teachers establish a representative staff development committee to advise them and the staff tutor on the school 's INSET programme |
| 30 | Now it has to be a software engineer who rocks , an operations chief who scuba dives or the bank president who knows a Scandinavian folk song when he hears one . |