Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional 12mm diameter cutting bits are available for £6.50 each if ordered at the same time as the Wallchaser . |
| 2 | THERE was an amusing television programme last week called BOFTY — Bore of the Year — which meted out awards to those most guilty of pretentiousness , rudeness , ubiquity and any other media excess as decided by the satirical magazine , Private Eye . |
| 3 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 4 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 5 | The new law followed a bill approved by parliament on Oct. 31 granting compensation to people deported or imprisoned under the Communist regime between 1939 and 1989 , and the families of those unlawfully executed . |
| 6 | The picture , a later version of a work in the Louvre , was bought at Sotheby 's in 1985 for £2.2 million and loaned to the National Gallery , London . |
| 7 | It is 355mm long and fits from the back to the front of a wardrobe , extending forward a further 210mm . |
| 8 | Satisfaction was also expressed by Michael Jordan at Cork Gully and Nigel Hamilton at Ernst & Young , the joint liquidators of the two funds , who have so far recovered £60 million of the £190 million but knew from the beginning that anything like the Government pay-out for BCI was impossible . |
| 9 | The construction of the Gilmerton Bypass was undertaken by Miller Construction Ltd under the terms of a contract valued at £11.6 million and supervised by the staff of the Department of Highways with the Director of Highways being the Engineer for the Works . |