Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern regional director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund paid tribute to the region 's fund raisers who helped the charity make £635,000 in the past year . |
| 2 | A lower level of subsidence claims was reported and , apart from the Perth floods which cost the Homeowners account $3m in the first quarter , the account continued to benefit from the absence of severe weather losses . |
| 3 | The poachers are continuing to kill rhino despite the de-horning operation embarked on by wildlife authorities [ see EDs 69 , 68 , 59-60 ] . |
| 4 | Adrian Sinfield has brought this analysis up to date by using data from the General Household Survey for 1975–7 and 1984 to measure the proportion of different social groups experiencing unemployment ( Press notice , 30 March 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Using data from the General Household Survey for 1972 on 6,873 male employees and using a method of analysis similar , but not identical , to that of Jencks , Psacharopoulos found ‘ that personal characteristics explain a higher fraction of earnings variance in the U.K. than in the U.S. and that education has a sizeable direct effect on income as well as an indirect effect through occupation ’ . |
| 6 | Several studies have recorded socioeconomic differences in the uptake of various forms of health care by individuals using data from the general household survey and the third national morbidity survey . |
| 7 | The model is now being further refined using data from the first well and will be used for the rest of the development programme . |
| 8 | Using data from the 1983 Labour Force Survey , they show that whereas unemployment rates for non-manual workers are low , with little variation between regions , those for manual workers are much higher and exhibit a much wider degree of regional variation ( see columns 1 and 2 of table 8.3 ) . |
| 9 | Such information allows them to plan ahead , using data from the previous period perhaps to make corrections after the next pass of the satellite over Chilton . |
| 10 | In the gold-weight study there was no problem : by gathering data from the British Museum , the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin , and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford , over 2,500 objects were studied . |
| 11 | Eastman Kodak 's shares plunged 10% following the sudden departure of its new chief financial officer . |
| 12 | To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time . |
| 13 | For example , one of us ( PH ) recently examined data on the relative size of the testes among primates . |
| 14 | For example , we have received data from the Regional Cancer Registry in Manchester comprising all cancers of the larynx and lung notified between 1974 and 1984 . |
| 15 | This mark constitutes 10% of the final grade . |
| 16 | The Swedish multinational has invested £6.5 million in the plant , which will manufacture chassis for the Olympian double-deck and B6 single-deck midi models for both domestic and export markets . |
| 17 | Excluding the mining machinery business that contributed £85million in the corresponding period , before disposal , turnover put on almost £70million to £337.5million . |
| 18 | THE British mountain bike champion , Caroline Alexander , has been fined £1,000 by the British Cycling Federation 's professional racing committee for allegedly breaking an agreement to ride in Raleigh 's colours this coming season . |
| 19 | The imprest would also be £3.77 , so that the petty cash box contains £20 for the next day . |
| 20 | If the amount of data to be passed is small , you may prefer to pass data to the CHAINed program by using the indirection operators to store them at known addresses . |
| 21 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |
| 22 | The Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University holds data from the Scottish school leavers surveys , which have been conducted since 1962 , and biennially since 1977 . |
| 23 | The most active counties continued to be Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire which together provided 56% of the total number of classes and students . |
| 24 | We analysed data from the national health and nutrition examination study I and its epidemiological follow up study . |
| 25 | The header to each assembly file contains data about the whole assembly . |
| 26 | Each file header contains data for the whole assembly described , the super box excursions and the nodal position . |
| 27 | The following comments relate to the 1988 edition , which contains data from the academic year 1986-87 . |
| 28 | But what if we want to obtain data about the increased risk of cancer from exposure to doses of less than 50 mSv ? |
| 29 | We were able to obtain data from the 1981 census for enumeration districts ( average about 150 households ) . |
| 30 | The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day . |