Example sentences of "of [n mass] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a metal straight-edge ( clamp in place if you have a large frame ) hold your knife at an angle of 60° and score the card in easy strokes until you 've cut through . |
| 2 | The defendants paid in cash the balance of £250 but did not deliver the lorries . |
| 3 | That distasteful comment brought a fine of £250 and established Jones , dubbed ‘ Psycho ’ during a spell at Leeds , as a cult figure among a certain section of the soccer fraternity . |
| 4 | Cater Allen 's High Interest Cheque Account , which currently pays a gross CAR of 7.76% , requires a minimum investment of £1,000 but pays interest down to £500 . |
| 5 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah well , ’ said Rory , slowing to avoid a pair of sheep that had come dribbling across the road . |
| 7 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |
| 8 | ‘ They do n't graze like a herd of sheep and keep all the vegetation down to one level , ’ says Robson . |
| 9 | Here colourless villages and mud houses , seemingly built at random , scraped a tired sustenance from the soil and the scrappy flocks of sheep and isolated , tethered cattle . |
| 10 | High level sales are forecast to produce a pay-off of £160k and to have a probability of 0·2 of being achieved . |
| 11 | High level sales are forecast to produce a pay-off of £160k and to have a probability of 0.2 of being achieved . |
| 12 | To evaluate the effects of bFGF and sucralfate on ulcer healing , the animals of series A were treated for seven days and the anaesthetised with ether . |
| 13 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON ACUTE GASTRIC LESIONS INDUCED BY 100% ETHANOL , ACIDIFIED ASPIRIN , OR STRESS |
| 14 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON THE NUMBER OF CAPILLARIES AND MYOFIBROBLASTS AT THE ULCER MARGIN |
| 15 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON NUCLEIC ACID CONTENT IN THE GASTRIC MUCOSA |
| 16 | Martin Brundle put the Brabham-Yamaha into 12th place on the grid — despite not having the benefit of special fuel for qualifying and a rev limit of 12,000rpm as opposed to the 13,000rpm-plus enjoyed by other V12 users . |
| 17 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 18 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 19 | Normally , to become a permanent resident in the Bahamas under category I , an individual needs to invest a minimum of $500,000 and keep it there for 10 years ; this compares with the five years for an investor in Sandyport Marina . |
| 20 | Dahl , 1954 , 1955 , 1987 ) ; however , the glacial survival of amphi-atlantic species such as Potamogeton epihydrus or Najas exilis ( as suggested by Harrison , 1948b ) or bryophytes such as Myurium hochstetteri , Leptodontium recurvifolium , or Campylopus shawii seems unlikely in view of reconstructed July mean temperatures during the last glacial maximum on St Kilda of 4°C and mean sea-surface temperatures around Rockall of 0–2°C ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | Prices for British sculptors Lynn Chadwick , Barbara Hepworth , Jacob Epstein and Elizabeth Frink moved more steadily than the index as a whole , with an overall growth between 1985 and 1990 of 180% and dipping 30% last year . |
| 22 | The directors are presently authorised to allot shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £114,668,095 and to allot equity securities for cash in connection with a rights issue and up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 , without applying statutory pre-emption rights . |
| 23 | One set has a length of 75mm and gives a medium cut , and the second a length of 100mm , and gives a coarse cut . |
| 24 | The Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 was an abominable piece of legislation , privatising immigration and putting it in the hands of aircraft and shipping companies , encouraging the use of bogus identity documents and , in many cases , making it impossible for legitimate asylum seekers to leave their own countries . |
| 25 | With the benefit of hindsight , these are now estimated at £4,900 , comprising expenses of £1,220 and lost chargeable time of £3,680 . |
| 26 | To illustrate how zeros work in practice , TR Technology Trust 's zeros have a market price of 166p and mature on April 30 , 1998 at a projected price of 313p — equivalent to a yearly gross redemption yield of just over 10.5 p.c . |
| 27 | Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want . |
| 28 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 29 | The very profusion of data that becomes available from a DFDR itself poses a problem in terms of the number of data points to be considered and even the many sheets of paper containing them that need to be handled . |
| 30 | Scientists worldwide are facing the ever-increasing dilemma of how to handle vast quantities of data that advances in high technology have made it possible to generate . |