Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 2 | The non-turbo is expected to put out about 250bhp and to cost closer to £30,000 . |
| 3 | His duties were to test aircraft and to instruct cadet pilots . |
| 4 | The pilots were required to complete twenty arrested landings at El Toro both to gain or regain currency in the tailwheel aircraft and to test the aircraft structure for weaknesses . |
| 5 | In the early days of the war it was the practice for all staff to take shelter on the ‘ alert ’ , but loss of production time demanded a better system , and late in 1940 , a ‘ spotter ’ was detailed to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent . |
| 6 | A friend , Dick Wixsom , had heard about 1051 , which was now advertised in Trade-A-Plane and he asked his son , Kevin , who was going to Florida on his spring holiday , to find the aircraft and to photograph what he saw . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He has set up Klesch & Co to trade loans in troubled companies such as Heron and to advise on corporate restructurings . |
| 9 | The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them . |
| 10 | There are many opportunities to use more socially relevant data and to employ statistics to challenge myths presented as facts . |
| 11 | For example , Williams calculated the cost per QALY of a range of health care interventions and divided them into ‘ strong candidates for expansion ’ and ‘ less strong candidates for expansion ’ 1 to illustrate what could be achieved by using available data and to argue for further refinements . |
| 12 | The general purpose of exploratory statistics , as the name suggests , is to help investigators to take a good look at patterns in data and to search around for ideas about the form these patterns take . |
| 13 | It is compatible with a personal computer ; I found it simple to transfer Pro-File 's stored data and to display any dive profile . |
| 14 | The neural networking technique , developed in the 1970s , mimics the biological neural network , enabling a system to ‘ learn ’ by example , to recognise patterns and data and to classify data by association . |
| 15 | The purpose of this project is to develop appropriate statistical procedures , to test them using psychological data and to make available techniques for use by social scientists . |
| 16 | Courses in economics therefore include the study of theoretical models of economic processes , of the statistical methods used to analyse economic data and to prepare economic forecasts , of markets and economic institutions such as the labour market or industrial firms or banks , and of economic policy and policy-making with respect to matters such as taxation , natural resources and the environment , financial markets and the international economy . |
| 17 | As things stand , the visual system is proving a good model to guide investigation of other sensory systems but we need to be cautious about interpreting data and to avoid forcing these other systems into a straitjacket defined by the visual system . |
| 18 | SGB management , seeking the easiest and cheapest methods , decided not to assemble or store new data but to use what was already in the payroll system and manipulate it by means of — initially — a single additional program specially written for the purpose . |
| 19 | Pennycuick J. found that there was no implied request for any service or promise of service [ for example , to use his best endeavours to persuade the bank to sell at £100,000 or to act as a go-between — cf. the putting in touch with X in British Bank for Foreign Trade v. Novinex ( above , p. 94 ) ] . |
| 20 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 21 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 22 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 23 | ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives . |
| 24 | High level sales are forecast to produce a pay-off of £160k and to have a probability of 0·2 of being achieved . |
| 25 | High level sales are forecast to produce a pay-off of £160k and to have a probability of 0.2 of being achieved . |
| 26 | The greenery-yallery mush makes a terrific flavour to smear under or over the skin of poultry , in which to steam or microwave fish or to marinate prawns before grilling . |
| 27 | Additions to the existing law which attacked the symptoms rather than the cause were useful : if the police were given the power to prohibit processions and meetings , to outlaw paramilitary defence corps and to ban political uniforms this would no doubt help , but suppression of fascist anti-semitism would be the best solution . |
| 28 | But the following July Campbell returned to cover the measured kilometre at an average speed of 403.1 m.p.h. for the two runs , becoming the first man to take a shaft-driven vehicle over 400 m.p.h. and to break both land and water speed records in the same year . |
| 29 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America says it plans to introduce wire and wireless services by the end of the year that will give its daily users better access to its data network : customers will be able to cut costs of on-line network usage by up to 30% and to access network applications and transfer data up to four times faster via its 14.4Kbs local dial service , which will be available from September , and uniform number access wireless cellular and radio , and its switched digital services . |
| 30 | The XPC system used with new Unisys Open 2200 XP enterprise servers is claimed to offer system throughput improvements of up to 30% and to speed the recovery of critical corporate information by 10 times — at significant reductions in overall operating costs . |