Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan immediately telephoned Dysart police Station , the police headquarters for Fife and asked where was her brother . |
| 2 | Protection would be granted if Cessna produced aircraft in Brazil and modified its US designs to suit local conditions . |
| 3 | Philips Electronics NV has reported first net profit down 36.4% at the equivalent of $58.3m on turnover that fell 2.2% to $7,780m . |
| 4 | Italtel SpA has reported consolidated net profit for 1992 up 0.4% at the equivalent of $80.2m on turnover that rose 7.7% at $1,790m ; no per share figures given . |
| 5 | Day 3 Purchased 150 sets of material for sails for £20 per set and paid the £3,000 immediately . |
| 6 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 7 | He did 129 mph in Switzerland and captured the world land-speed record . ’ |
| 8 | Apparently it was the withholding or delay in the payment of Peter 's Pence from England that led Pope Alexander II to approve the Norman expedition in 1066 . |
| 9 | I rather foolishly ran round the Staffordshire moors on Saturday with the perhaps to be disbanded 5th Battalion Light Infantry from Shrewsbury and caught a heavy cold . |
| 10 | Month 4 Paid instalment on machine of £900 in cash and made cash sales of £4 , 000 . |
| 11 | Phoenix Technologies Ltd has reported a second quarter net profit of $1.2m , up from just $38,000 last time , on turnover that rose 5.0% at $17.0m ; mid-term net rose 266% at $2.3m on turnover that rose 4.7% at $35.8m . |
| 12 | Informix Corp had a good one , reporting fourth quarter net profits up 166% at $22.2m on turnover that rose 78.5% at $96.0m . |
| 13 | Symbolics Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $1.1m , up from a loss last time of $389,000 on turnover that declined by 38% at $3.2m . |
| 14 | Systems Center Inc has turned in first quarter net profit up 24.2% at $713,000 on turnover that rose 2.8% to $31.9m . |
| 15 | Digital Communications Associates Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $66.6m after a pre-tax charge of $59.9m from writing off the goodwill in its Pacific Data Products unit and $3.2m from the costs of reorganising that company , and $3.2m from settlement of a class action lawsuit , and a tax credit of $583,000 , against a profit last time of $6.0m on turnover that rose 8.9% at $55.7m ; net loss for the nine months was $58.0m against profit last time of $13.3m on turnover up 9.0% at $104.4m . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co 's fourth quarter figures revealed net profits plunging 45.6% to $68.0m on turnover that rose 12.8% at $4,324m . |
| 17 | Net profit for the nine months slumped 40.6% at $80.6m on turnover that rose 16.5% at $3,048.1m . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc has reported third quarter net profits down 15.9% at $51.7m on turnover that rose 19.9% at $1,141.3m ; net profit for the nine months slumped 40.6% at $80.6m on turnover that rose 16.5% at $3,048.1m ; net earnings per share fell 22% to $0.60 in the quarter , 42% to $0.77 in the nine months . |
| 19 | Banyan Systems Inc has reported first quarter net profits up 72.1% at $2.8m on turnover that rose 11.6% at $30.3m . |
| 20 | The princess visited the handsome bachelor in barracks near Windsor and exchanged letters and gifts . |
| 21 | It was the Tories that hijacked Percent for Art and brought the issue of disability about . |
| 22 | It was invented by the Tibetan lamas and was originally reserved for the use of the elite corps of bodyguards that protected the emperor of China . |
| 23 | During the war lie served in the Royal Corps of Signals and attained the rank of Captain . |
| 24 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 25 | Newly-independent McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Ltd , Hemel Hempstead says that in 1992 , operating profits rose 23% to £19.4m on turnover that fell 8.8% to £159.7m . |
| 26 | Its been another less than startling year for London-based cables and construction group BICC Plc with pre-tax profits down 4.9% at £77m on turnover that fell 3.8% to £3,647m . |
| 27 | Tandem Computers Inc has reported second quarter net profits up 26.0% at $11.1m on turnover that rose 3.4% to $425.1m ; the mid-term net profit was $51.1m after a gain of $22.5m from cumulative effect of an accounting change , against a loss last time of $85.8m , on turnover that rose 4.3% at $814.2m . |
| 28 | Corrected Result : Tandem Computers Inc has reported second quarter net profits up 26.0% at $11.1m on turnover that rose 2.9% at $517.6m ; mid-term net profit was $28.6m after a gain of $12.6m from the cumulative effect of an accounting change , against a loss last time of $85.8m , on turnover that rose 4.6% at $1,001.5m . |
| 29 | The developer , Marlin Estates , spent £19m on Wisley and decided to steer clear of ancillary activities and concentrate on golf . |
| 30 | Telefonica de Espana SA has reported net profit for 1992 down 23.7% at the equivalent of $672.7m on turnover that rose 16.1% at $10,307m ; no per share figures . |