Example sentences of "put up [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teesside operations put up £2,000 — half the cost of the special portable pump and generator — and provided technical advice . |
| 2 | We put up 6m muffle boards two-thirds of the way back , erected a four-row tiered seating block in front of them and built a 24m by 11m stage at the front . |
| 3 | Both LEEL , which put up £75,000 , and the region , are understood to hold deep reservations about maintaining the same level of support . |
| 4 | There 's a glowing prospectus about using Winter Marsh for oyster farming , and a Declaration of Intent by a group called Varsov International to put up £5 million in cash for a half share in yet another company called Ingard Oyster Farms . |
| 5 | National Grid plans to put up 400kv lines on 150ft pylons across Cleveland and North Yorkshire from Lackenby on Teesside , to Shipton , near York to take electricity from a new power station on Teesside to the south of England . |
| 6 | The Nationwide Building Society agreed to put up £703,000 at 2 per cent above their normal rates because of the experimental nature of the scheme . |
| 7 | The idea was to persuade 1,000 ‘ rich radicals ’ with incomes of over £12,000 per year ( the Walsh criterion for being rich ) to put up £1,000 each . |
| 8 | I was struggling to complete my doctoral thesis in an icy northern England when my brother Lorne called me from London with the news that Ringo Starr had agreed to put up £2,000 and the post-production costs of our first adventure film . |
| 9 | Len Deighton , an old friend offered to put up £2,000 if I could find three other backers . |
| 10 | Wall Street is sceptical that a link with Mr Pritzker will materialise , leaving UAL to find an equity partner to replace British Airways , which had agreed to put up $750million for a 15 per cent stake in the buyout consortium . |
| 11 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 12 | They will offer package programmes at minimal cost , in the hope of recovering their outlay and , most importantly , providing an inducement for a sponsor to put up £6 million for world-wide exposure . |
| 13 | ‘ Angie had nothing to complain about — anyone would have been glad to put up £100,000 to get in here . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 16 | To put things into context , if half of the membership were to put up 10p a week into an HCB , they would make a total yearly contribution of £260,000 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Will he now reconsider his advice that local initiative will solve all these problems , given that he has undermined local initiative in the example quoted earlier about people who have been willing to put up £17 million of locally raised money for a project which was undermined by the Welsh Office ? |
| 19 | Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun . |
| 20 | Those who put up $1,000 when Microsoft made its initial public offering in March 1986 are now sitting on $15,500 . |
| 21 | The Community Action Trust put up £5,000 of the money . |
| 22 | The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation . |
| 23 | Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors . |
| 24 | ‘ Owners complain about low prize money but there is no point in our executive putting up £25,000 with prize money down to fourth for a non-sponsored race if they wo n't support it . |
| 25 | Precious Link was 2lb out of the handicap and trainer Bill Turner got a mild shock when he found that Davies was also putting up 3lb overweight . |
| 26 | The Japanese government is putting up 90% of the funds , but 14 private institutions are taking part , including NEC Corp , Hitachi Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 27 | It is relieved that the most the Americans now want ( apart from money , naturally , of which the Koreans are putting up $220m ) is for Korea to take over more of the job of defending itself , thus freeing American troops and equipment based in Korea for duty in the Gulf . |
| 28 | The Japanese government was aware that putting up $3 billion to help Korea service its large foreign debt was going to be in the long-term interests of the many Japanese companies with investments and joint ventures in Korea . |
| 29 | Advanced RISC has also won a new shareholder , Nippon Investment & Finance Co of Tokyo , which is putting up £650,000 for an undisclosed stake in the company alongside Acorn Computer Group Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc . |
| 30 | They tell such horror stories as GE putting up sales teams from competing suppliers in the same hotel and then moving from room to room asking each supplier to think about reducing its bid for the contract . |