Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forte gets a cool Pounds 402m — a profit of around £300m — and still retains just under 25% of the caterer ahead of a future flotation . |
| 2 | A person who is scared of ballooning will nearly always fly the aircraft onto the ground instead of making well held-off landings . |
| 3 | With the current policies of privatisation being pursued by the government , women are most adversely affected ; 80% of the jobs currently under threat are women 's jobs . |
| 4 | Wedging itself against DEC 's DECpresents and Island Graphics Inc 's IslandPresents , which go for $795 and $1,000 respectively — Perspecta says its looking to steal as much as 20% of the market away from its competitors . |
| 5 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month . |
| 6 | Cripps gave his name to an era of austerity , queues , shortages and high income tax ( 9s. 6d. in the pound again in 1951 , almost as high as in wartime ) , flattening the peaks of the income range and lopping off any surviving Matterhorns . |
| 7 | Merely the removal of about £100,000 from the League annually in TV fees and sponsorship can cause an icy blast to the Fourth Division 's infirm . |
| 8 | Shares in Thorn-EMI Plc jumped 10 pence to 882 pence at the opening yesterday on reports that GEC Plc is close to agreeing to buy Thorn 's defence interests for about £140m ; Thorn has been trying to sell the unit for two or three years now , but the Sunday Telegraph reports that any deal will require the approval of the Ministry of Defence and of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 9 | These are smaller-bodied than the ‘ O ’ series — about an inch narrower and half an inch shallower — and the necks are slightly narrower too , being 43mm at the nut instead of the standard 45mm . |
| 10 | British Airways added 2p to 280p following the go ahead on its link with Qantas . |
| 11 | It is advisable however not to introduce any new fish in the weeks immediately before the holiday as any diseases introduced could cause severe problems if not controlled . |
| 12 | The best man said he was n't used to speeches , he nearly had n't arrived at all himself , but he just wanted to thank Father here for all he had done and the people of the bride here for this feast and all the trouble they had gone to , and then he proposed the toast . |
| 13 | McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’ |
| 14 | And er is a very well known er place indeed and we feel that people throughout the country indeed throughout the world can identify with . |
| 15 | A hostile demonstration by about 20,000 people near the nunciature earlier on Jan. 3 apparently influenced his decision . |
| 16 | We were greeted by unnaturally cheerful ranger , who told us that there were 56 people on the list ahead of us so we did n't stand a chance and that it would probably rain anyway . |
| 17 | Dace near the Viaduct downstream of Stamford Bridge , also pike . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , higher-rate tax payers will pay 5p in the pound more on their dividends , adding a further £200 million to Treasury coffers . |
| 19 | She left £2,000 to St Hilda 's Catholic Church , Bagdale and £500 to the priest there for Masses ; £1,000 each to St Joseph 's Convent , Whitby and the Ecclesiastical Education Fund Middlesbrough Diocese and £500 each to St John of God Hospital , Scorton , St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church , Whitby and Cafod . |
| 20 | She left £2,000 to St Hilda 's Catholic Church , Bagdale and £500 to the priest there for Masses ; £1,000 each to St Joseph 's Convent , Whitby and the Ecclesiastical Education Fund Middlesbrough Diocese and £500 each to St John of God Hospital , Scorton , St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church , Whitby and Cafod . |
| 21 | The latest announcement in the field is for High Availability Cluster Multi-processing/6000 version 1.2 : software that aims to glue a pair of the machines together in such a way as to combine the benefits of fault-tolerance and symmetric multiprocessing . |
| 22 | By sticking to a glass of juice a day , removing skin from the chicken , and having three pieces of fruit in the evening instead of all the snacks would bring the calories down to 2,300 . |