Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [n mass] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The district council said there was no budget to meet the £900 annual charge for floodlighting the memorials , and someone must accept the cost .
2 SIX more Eldorado stars were given the chop yesterday in a desperate bid to revive the £10 million sun and sangria soap flop .
3 ALAST ditch attempt to salvage the £5 billion scheme to redevelop King 's Cross station will be made by British Rail tomorrow , writes Michael Smith .
4 The bank has called a London meeting of leading share registrars and custodians for next Tuesday to discuss the fall-out from Thursday 's decision by the Stock Exchange council to scrap the £400 million Taurus project .
5 PATIENTS will be able to write their own prescriptions as part of a plan to cut the £3 billion NHS drugs bill .
6 Cornell will use part of the funding to buy the $3m 64-processor machine , which is to be expanded to 512 CPUs when that configuration becomes available next year .
7 Cornell will use part of the funding to buy the $3m 64-processor machine , which is to be expanded to 512 CPUs when that configuration becomes available next year .
8 I am buying a £110,000 house with my girlfriend and we plan to take out an endowment to cover the £100,000 mortgaged sum .
9 Moss Bros appointed MHA to handle the £1m three-year project this week .
10 Furthermore , if the three numbers beneath the Early Reply Bonus Seal match the first three numbers of your Early Reply Bonus Code , and you reply within 14 days , you will automatically qualify for the chance to double the £50,000 first prize to £100,000 .
11 If he does not have authority to give the staff financial rewards or the possibility of developing themselves , they may go to their functional managers in order to satisfy their economic and professional ambitions .
12 After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time .
13 TOTTENHAM Hotspur shareholders are to be asked to cancel £7m of the company 's £8.2m share premium account to eliminate the £6.8m estimated deficit on revenue account which is preventing the payment of dividends .
14 Michael , 28 , of Wyville Grove , Hunton , won the judges over including the head chef of London 's Savoy Hotel to claim the £500 first prize along with a commemorative medal and certificate .
15 It is now going to be very difficult for the Lions to win this series , although they did come from the same position to win the series four years ago in Australia .
16 Millions of public sector staff including nurses and civil servants will be forced out of a pay rise next year to keep the £1.8 billion Jubilee scheme going .
17 It paid for it with cash of £4m and loan notes of £2.75m — i.e. a promise to pay the £2.75m four years later — and the payment was guaranteed by Ansbacher Bank .
18 Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings .
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