Example sentences of "of [n mass] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants paid in cash the balance of £250 but did not deliver the lorries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah well , ’ said Rory , slowing to avoid a pair of sheep that had come dribbling across the road . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With the benefit of hindsight , these are now estimated at £4,900 , comprising expenses of £1,220 and lost chargeable time of £3,680 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | See DATA for more details and an example of the use of DATA and READ . |
| 9 | The first such microprocessor was the Intel 4004 , which used a basic 4-bit unit of data and appeared in 1971 . |
| 10 | Had the company recorded its investment in B at the fair value of £2.1m and set up a merger reserve in its own books rather than on consolidation , no gain would arise in the parent company 's profit and loss account , but the merger reserve would become realised and available for distribution . |
| 11 | But after the investment was made Wright forged letters to cash in the bonds , to a total of £172,000 and paid the money into his own account . |
| 12 | Once the guns had gone , the black-uniformed Prussian cavalry waited in the town north of the river , reinforcing the brigade of infantry that ransacked the houses near the bridge for furniture , which they rather half-heartedly made into a barricade at the bridge 's northern end . |
| 13 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 14 | Not a single one of the millions of fish that fought their way up the river ever returns to the sea . |
| 15 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 16 | FURTHER evidence that the economy may be edging out of recession came with yesterday 's publication of statistics that showed a bigger than expected pick-up in credit lending and a smaller than expected rise in the jobless total . |
| 17 | Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal : |
| 18 | The Budget cut in car tax , from 10 per cent to five , led to a brief flurry of sales that fizzled out as the election approached . |
| 19 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 20 | Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable . |
| 21 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 22 | ‘ Two days before the accident happened she had been out shopping with a member of staff and had returned unescorted . |
| 23 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates the man had been followed by a member of staff and had been seen to drop a bag containing the jeans . |
| 24 | She is a very level-headed member of staff and handled the situation very coolly . ’ |
| 25 | The cult offered to pay his medical expenses of $200 and apologised . |
| 26 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd warns that it will likely make an unconsolidated or parent company current loss of $335m for the year to March 31 ; it had previously seen a loss of $215m and reported an $11m profit last year ; it expects a group current loss of $344m for the year . |
| 27 | Erm and the difference in appraisal between the groups of people that knew about the speaker before and those that did n't know anything , they say it is important to the similarity attraction . |
| 28 | She found herself hurrying unnecessarily , weaving her way through the groups of people that drifted along the narrow paths , side-stepping the large and opulent prams that were moored to benches where smug mothers sat knitting and staring , dodging the children who chased each other in and out of the grown-ups ' legs . |
| 29 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 30 | What , do you think that there 's any connection between what you mentioned before about when you claimed for er bomb damage erm that working class people about being , supposed to have a piano , do you think there 's a connection between that sort of idea and the idea of people that lived in Harlow in Council houses should n't have cars ? |