Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be augmented by data from other sources notably on income , employment and family building . |
| 2 | Students are encouraged to present their data at scientific meetings both in Britain and abroad and are expected to contribute to a lively programme of intra-departmental seminars and journal clubs . |
| 3 | He based his tax cuts on American research by Lindsey that concluded that reductions in the top tax rates to the American Government in 1981/82 were costless as the top 170,000 taxpayers ended up paying $26.6bn under new legislation instead of $26bn under the old . |
| 4 | In Kiev information collected from local hospitals by Greens , showing high rates of infant mortality , were not checked against statistics in similar cities elsewhere in the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Standards were made up by drawing 5 ml of venous blood daily for four days after injection of the labelled red cells . |
| 6 | Fraud is likely to occur only in sales of brand-name drugs still under patent . |
| 7 | Allsop 's auction was a record sell-out , with all but two of 111 lots sold for a total of £6.3 million , and other auction houses reported successful sales with average prices well above the guides . |
| 8 | A native-born Moldavian despite his Russian name , Mr Pyotr Luchinsky , the new first secretary has been going the rounds , talking to people in soothing terms all over the republic . |
| 9 | We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company . |
| 10 | By the end of 1980 there were thirteen ‘ Laura Ashley ’ stores in the US , not one of which took less than $400 per square foot annually in sales . |
| 11 | Lowland forests , more often near lakes , rivers or marshes than Lesser Spotted ; both species in open country only on migration . |
| 12 | The ethics of English governesses abroad in the mid-nineteenth century have not yet received sufficient scholarly attention . |
| 13 | She was aware of a pair of dark eyes briefly on her mouth , and then the mechanic left her car and came over to them . |
| 14 | She found herself in a large square hall , with a pair of half-glazed doors ahead of her leading directly into the kitchen , and wooden double doors to her left , giving access to the rest of the house . |
| 15 | It was denied that any such wall existed on the southern side of the border , other than a series of anti-tank defences well to the south of the DMZ . |
| 16 | They are particularly prominent in the early stages of development at Godmanchester where , following the demise of the fort , a system of regular plots was apparently laid out , extending as a series of broad strips well into the territory surrounding the settlement . |
| 17 | Zips : a strong two-way zip runs very freely — a series of pleated stitching close to each side of the zip preventing any loose fabric catching . |
| 18 | Chariots and horses are designed in strict profile and carved with great skill in a series of recessed planes parallel to the background . |
| 19 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |