Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the final notes quivered into silence and he left the stage to tumultuous applause , she rose to her feet in spontaneous acclaim for his effort . |
| 2 | ‘ We did n't get £28,000 which with 14 other bad debts amounted to £100,000 , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The profit for the year attributable to ordinary shareholders amounted to £20,618,000 . |
| 4 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 5 | Radical reshaping of the group 's operations away from retail outlets and into bakery operations led to write-offs last year , but this time there were no below-the-line expenses for store closures . |
| 6 | In the spring of 1990 particularly , trial runs of the assessment of 7-year-olds led to revelations about strain and frustration which led central government considerably to reduce its demands . |
| 7 | Discus queries got to STEVE DUDLEY of Euro-Discus . |
| 8 | In 1992 total cognac and spirits shipments amounted to FF 5,553 million . |
| 9 | Before this Board the commissioner advanced two main submissions , namely : ( 1 ) that the business of the bank was one and indivisible since all the profit earning operations were directed from Hong Kong by staff therein employed , no overseas branch of the bank was involved and the funds employed in the purchase of the certificates of deposit arose from the carrying on of the business in Hong Kong ; and ( 2 ) that in any event , even if the sale and purchase of certificates of deposit failed to be treated as separate operations , nevertheless the profits from these operations arose in Hong Kong . |
| 10 | The boy had been examined by a surgeon , Thomas Chapman , who found numerous wheals , bruises and lacerations , and his report to the guardians led to proceedings being taken against the tailor before the County magistrates ; he was convicted and fined £5 . |
| 11 | Back in 1945 , when the first experimental fluoridation projects got under way in Grand Rapids , Michigan , and Newburgh , New York , it was envisaged that drinking about 1 litre of fluoridated water a day would provide 1 milligram of fluoride . |
| 12 | Further violent demonstrations by mass pickets led to £525,000 additional fines being imposed . |
| 13 | One strategy involved tackling the profession on its own terms , refuting statistics and medical claims that the acts led to improvements in morality and public order through a mass of published tracts and pamphlets . |
| 14 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 15 | The Bank of England 's quarterly bulletin says 5% of disclosures from financial institutions led to prosecutions . |
| 16 | He looked down at the tablecloths splattered with grease and wine , the platters now cleared . |
| 17 | The other two sections of the prison also contained barracks , but many of the long-term prisoners lived in blocks of single cells . |
| 18 | They estimated that the cost in terms of benefit paid amounted to £7.44 bn ; the cost in terms of lost taxes amounted to £7.27 bn ; and the cost in terms of lost national insurance contributions amounted to £5.20 bn . |
| 19 | The starting point for this was the need to decide whether the government did have a credible economic development strategy , whether there was any community focus to it , and how its various programmes impacted on communities within West Belfast . |
| 20 | Pressures from the DES and what in some cases amounted to directives from local authorities , led the colleges concerned to move away from outright hostility to testing out what degree of autonomy and protection for art and design would be forthcoming within the polytechnic structure . |
| 21 | She received £50 per annum extra ( and the net savings to the guardians amounted to £90 for the year ) . |
| 22 | ‘ After that , all roads led to Hollywood . ’ |
| 23 | Only three roads led into Belpan City and Louis would have erected roadblocks on them all . |
| 24 | A typical Mercedes-owner would live in the hills of Buda , in one of the luxury apartment houses studded with satellite dishes that are constantly springing up . |
| 25 | The Little family for many generations lived in Carbrooke , Norfolk . |
| 26 | The group 's total portfolio investments amounted to £2,596m at 31 March 1992 : equity shares came to £1,145m , preference shares £228m , loan investments £1,088m , investment properties £16m , associated undertakings £85m and investment leases £34m . |
| 27 | The five heavies pounced on Dosanjh , 21 , as he walked through the court lobby after being bailed on an unrelated theft charge . |
| 28 | Bright tapestries gleamed with gold and silver motifs ; rich silk cloths were placed over tables , the backs of chairs and the massive open sideboards . |
| 29 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 30 | For all four lysosomal marker enzymes studies , there was no significant difference between the latency of lysosomes incubated with ethanol or acetaldehyde when compared with control values . |