Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [n mass] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 2 | Never mind the crater in the window , never mind the tyres with several thousand miles scraped off their lives , never mind some brand new little glitch that had better be sorted out a.s.a.p. in the cab 's suspension . |
| 3 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 4 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 5 | More realistically , it is easy for each of us to pick up $3,000 of the banker 's money by both playing COOPERATE on all ten rounds of the game . |
| 6 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 7 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 8 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 9 | On top of which we came out $28 to the good . |
| 10 | He told the court that after Swindon beat Bolton Wanderers in November 1989 he personally handed out £5,000 to the players and back-up staff . |
| 11 | In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 . |
| 12 | Persistent and casual truants — so categorised by headteachers — made up 4% of the school roll in November and 5% in June . |
| 13 | The professional and managerial classes made up 18% of the population in 1971 : their children formed 51% of university entrants in 1975 and 54% in 1979 . |
| 14 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 15 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 16 | Of the 169 companies listed , five make up 85% of the value of the composite index . |
| 17 | In the Union Territory of Nagaland , Christians make up 85% of the population . |
| 18 | Take delivery as an example : each of the requirements of material , quantity , time , location and documents is marked and when added together these make up 30% of the total . |
| 19 | In the USA , black Americans , who make up 12% of the population , have traditionally formed a distinct social stratum at the base of the stratification system . |
| 20 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 21 | Their rural cousins , who still make up 75% of the population , scratch a living from the soil . |
| 22 | But what about the outcome of the usual monitoring visits — which still make up 80% of the subject assessor 's time ? |
| 23 | Where was the best place for bringing up fish on the river ? |
| 24 | Xionics had an easier birth than most small companies : it managed to persuade BP , its first customer , to put up £80000 toward the cost of developing Xinet . |
| 25 | When a Jakarta bureaucrat decided in the early 1980s that Indonesia should develop a steel industry , Mr Liem was ‘ encouraged ’ to put up 40% of the $800m cost of the Krakatau Steel project . |
| 26 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 27 | Pamela Vandyke Price 's Tutored Wine Tasting , arranged by Miranda Villiers and her colleagues in teh London Regional Group , brought in £300 for the Endowment Appeal and changed many people 's views on sparkling wines . |
| 28 | NWD snaps up 15% of the market , Hewlett-Packard and DEC have 17% apiece , IBM lags behind at 14% , while Network Computing Devices Inc leads the field with 25% . |
| 29 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 30 | Police managed to seize back £500 from the roadside . |