Example sentences of "[n mass] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means about 1,700 YHA members raising an average of £60 to plant an acre of trees . |
| 2 | A cable car too takes you up over 6,000 ′ to near the mountain peaks . |
| 3 | We are therefore asking the Sports Council for a grant of £1,000 to enable the work to go ahead . |
| 4 | John Macgill was at Edinburgh 's Dreghorn barracks to see the flags come down . |
| 5 | Under legislation to be unveiled next week , it will be an offence carrying a fine of up to £1,000 to carry a bladed or sharp , pointed article in public without good reason . |
| 6 | Ritz-Carlton adopted the system in 1990 with a corporate director of quality based at their Atlanta headquarters to supervise the work of the quality leader in each hotel . |
| 7 | A state of emergency was ordered for Baku by the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 19 , after demonstrators had massed for three consecutive days outside the Azerbaijan CP central committee 's headquarters to demand the leadership 's resignation , and had erected barricades on the city 's outskirts to prevent the entry of Soviet troops . |
| 8 | Now pursuing a wider marketing brief to replenish its coffers , the Open Software Foundation has opened up laboratories at its Cambridge , Massachusetts-based headquarters to provide an interoperability testing site . |
| 9 | When he had lifted the hood of the Capri , and fastened the arm to hold it open , then he bent again and reached under the chassis to retrieve the plastic bag holding the Ruger . |
| 10 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 11 | The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 12 | They will pay an extra £1,000 to repair the boiler it breaks down . |
| 13 | The new Foxhound fighter , a development of the famous MiG-25 Foxbat , is the first Russian aircraft to carry an advanced radar that can detect cruise missiles flying at low levels . |
| 14 | They went to erm a number of cities in Europe , of all the countries in Europe , and tried to gather the data to compare the quality of water in their countries , to the quality in ours . |
| 15 | They beat Swansea City in the new-look Coca Cola cup by three goals to nil.There to enjoy the party were some of the early pioneers of local football . |
| 16 | Models of an inventory are developed , and subjected to various mathematical and statistical formulae , with the object of producing data to enable a considered answer to be given to the two questions mentioned . |
| 17 | Although there are few data to support the effectiveness of bicarbonate , there are laboratory and clinical data indicating potentially harmful consequences of administration , especially a paradoxical increase in intracellular acidosis due to diffusion of carbon dioxide across cell membranes . |
| 18 | We used the Hungarian congenital abnormality register and other collected data to estimate the proportion of congenital abnormalities that are , or can be , prevented by all these approaches when used to the best level of practice currently found in Hungary . |
| 19 | Studies that use health service data to estimate the incidence and evaluate the natural course of presenile Alzheimer 's disease may be considerably more accurate and informative than those of senile disease . |
| 20 | Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , head of the country 's largest Shia organization , the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , was also reported on Aug. 25 to have approved " safe havens " in southern Iraq but to have declined to back the use of Western aircraft to enforce an air exclusion zone . |
| 21 | would be unwise for us in analysing our 1983 data to treat the unemployed in the same way as in 1972 without at least considering whether this might not seriously distort our results ; more specifically , it would seem important to examine what effect it would have on he 1983 mobility [ results ] if unemployment , or at all events long-term unemployment , were itself regarded as a mobility ‘ status ’ or outcome . |
| 22 | Pandolfi has called for a supplement of 136 million ecu to enable a number of projects to be revived . |
| 23 | Another example of the multivariate approach is provided by Webber and Craig ( 1978 ) who used 40 variables from the 1971 Small Area Statistics Census data to classify the British population into six main family types and a number of sub-clusters , making 30 groups altogether , as shown in a simplified form in Figure 5.6 . |
| 24 | But if we seek to direct attention to this text as data to stimulate the acquisition of systemic knowledge , we run the risk of making the learner press for precision of meaning beyond any real purpose , thereby misrepresenting the very nature of language use . |
| 25 | The sides are raised about 8in to contain the fire pit ( or trough ) . |
| 26 | The final conclusions of the national committee were , firstly , that it is not possible with the available data to establish a definite causal relation between the use of gangliosides and acute polyneuropathies and , secondly , that patients diagnosed as suffering from acute neuropathies should have a detailed drug history taken and should be followed up ( Grupo de Trabajo Gangli-Msidos , 18th session of Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance , Spain , 1992 ) . |
| 27 | The study utilises the abundant Vietnamese source materials and other relevant data to establish the basic important facts about this part of Vietnamese society . |
| 28 | The research uses nationally representative survey data to establish the relationship between the employment of one member of a household and the employment of other household members . |
| 29 | An exhaustive set of categories was developed from the INSET observational data to inform the project about the balance between technical , operational , educational and other INSET practices . |
| 30 | In the project , a number of data sources are being utilised ; in particular , recently available data from the 1981 Census of Population and the 1981 British Rail Origin-Destination Survey are being compared with earlier data to obtain a picture of recent trends . |