Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ very high proportion ’ even of the detailed wording of this 1937 text remains in the published version.i Much of The Silmarillion , then , could be seen as chronologically pre- Hobbit , while the Unfinished Tales ( though much more varied in date and nature ) at least contain a good deal of material whose composition preceded the appearance of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 2 | ‘ I should think she 'd rather have had sixpence instead of the fond farewell . |
| 3 | Note : Occasionally the chart will specify a lower airspeed validity than usual , ( eg " Procedure valid for 90–105 kit TAS " ) in which case you should base the distance outbound on 100 kt instead of the usual 150 kt . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the evocation of " wayfaring " folk instead of the contemporary urban proletariat introduces into the discourse of the Report a sense of Englishness linked to a mythology of medieval organic ruralism . |
| 5 | BT lost 9p to 392p ahead of the final government sell-off next year . |
| 6 | Coun Chris Abbott hopes that Langbaurgh Council 's £70,000 budget saving by disregarding the first £10 instead of the normal full pension is a misunderstanding . |
| 7 | Speyside and South Wales had none whilst North Yorkshire and Wester Ross had 95% and 86% respectively of the farmers part-time . |
| 8 | On the cost side , apart from the redundancies I mentioned , well including the redundancies I mentioned er , the non volume related costs are only three percent ahead of the previous year . |
| 9 | Er , a fourth year of record profits , record er , sales , record margin , with the schools business thirty seven percent ahead of the previous year with our successful maths programme , aided and abetted by er , the business that produces the manipulatives to go with the maths programme . |
| 10 | Erm , some of you are very critical of , of , of the Penguin operation when you were in the U S A but I have to tell you , they did achieve record sales there last year and increased market share and in fact the children 's er , book publishing was twenty percent ahead of the year before . |
| 11 | Buy one pattern for £4.65 instead of the normal price of £7.65 ( a saving of 39 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Would you like a copy of ‘ Birmingham for the under fives ’ for £1.50 instead of the £3 published price ? |
| 13 | Would you like a copy of ‘ Birmingham for the under fives ’ for £1.50 instead of the £3 published price ? |
| 14 | STOCK market newcomer Drew Scientific made a promising debut as its shares raced ahead to 155p some 50p ahead of the placement price . |
| 15 | Partly it is a primary addictive disease of some family members who are addicted to " fixing " or " helping " other people regardless of the consequences to themselves or to those other people whom they seek to help . |
| 16 | You ca n't please all of the people all of the time . |
| 17 | In his role as the world 's Central Banker , a position bestowed on him by the dollar 's reserve currency status , he can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 18 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 19 | It believes that ‘ fooling all of the people all of the time ’ is entirely possible when the product or service is interesting or persuasive enough . |
| 20 | Whatever the outcome , one thing is clear : where new roads are concerned , you can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 21 | So some unscrupulous drug dealers are still trying to pass Ketamine off as E. Others , no doubt working on the basis that you ca n't fool all of the people all of the time , have thought ahead and worked out a clever marketing strategy . |
| 22 | Teachers who listen to all the conflicting noises that are made about education by the pundits will inevitably feel ( quite apart from their own ideals ) that there is no pleasing all of the people all of the time . |
| 23 | None of these methods will ease all of the people all of the time . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you know the saying : ‘ You ca n't please all of the people all of the time , just some of the people some of the time . ’ |
| 25 | We strive to please some of the people all of the time . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , there is a need , as said , to make staff away of the authorities environmental policies . |
| 27 | Consumerism — there was some mention in the circular about taking note of the views of the people both of the users of services and their carers , the consumers of the range of services . |
| 28 | By lap 10 they were 20 sec ahead of the rest , and by lap 20 they had stretched that gap to 40 sec , before a rash of pit-stops for tyre changes interfered with the order . |
| 29 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 30 | Dead aspidistra ( linked to four — a door ) : A heavy wooden door with a dead aspidistra instead of a handle ; |