Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 2 | One colleague , Jackie Tillman , got wind one day of a piece of the drama in which North and Owen were engaged ; she heard that Owen , standing in the rain outside the White House , had handed $2,000–3,000 in cash to a Meskito Indian leader passing by in a car . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Defence pays £12 per service to an organist who is not a serving member of the Forces . |
| 4 | This , as well as characterising the symptomatology , showed that the condition accounted for nearly 5% of referrals to a gastroenterology clinic . |
| 5 | At Mr Ramirez 's request he also transmitted $60,000 from WedTech to a company controlled by the official after he left the government . |
| 6 | Rowthorn suggests that the continued existence of large scale capitalist enterprises possessing production facilities in several countries could render impossible the development of planning for social need in one particular national economy , so that a determined left government would be forced to break up such capitals and transfer the possession of the principal means of production to a planning authority at the level of the nation state . |
| 7 | ‘ in a zebra controlled area proceeding towards the limits of an uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ 'Zebra controlled area' means in relation to a zebra crossing , the area of the carriageway in the vicinity of the crossing and lying on both sides of the crossing or only one side of the crossing , being an area the presence and limits of which are indicated in accordance with schedule 3 ( i.e. the general layout of the zig-zag lines , terminal lines where the zig-zag lines begin and give-way lines where the zig-zag lines end next to the crossing ) . |
| 8 | The city was hit by two thefts last week which netted works of art to a value of around £65,000 ( $113,000 ) . |
| 9 | He quotes Evelyn Waugh 's vision of hell from A Handful of Dust : ‘ A jungle clearing in which a man is trapped forever , forced to read aloud the entire works of Dickens to a lunatic , over and over again . ’ |
| 10 | Clear away weeds and dig over an area , preferably in full sun , 1m/3ft x 1m/3ft to a depth of about 60cm/2ft . |
| 11 | It would be extremely rash to add a pair of leleupi to a tank in which you have brichardi breeding . |
| 12 | He would use the same series of signs to a horse that ignored him . |
| 13 | RNA was extracted with guanidinium thiocyanate ( RNAzol B , Cinna Biotex , Friendwood , Texas , USA ) and electrophoresed on a formamide/agarose gel for 12 hours at 35 V before transfer to a nitrocellulose filter . |