Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROSEHAUGH shares jumped 5per cent to 494p yesterday on news that BPC Associates , a partnership affiliated with JMB Realty of Chicago , had bought a near 5 per cent stake . |
| 2 | At the interim stage , Pilkington turned in pre-tax profits up 6per cent to £147 million and a 10per cent increase in the dividend to 2.93p a share . |
| 3 | At the interim stage , Pilkington turned in pre-tax profits up 6per cent to £147 million and a 10per cent increase in the dividend to 2.93p a share . |
| 4 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 5 | McNEALY ‘ SEEKS NOORDA 's SUPPORT TO £ ! % NT AND RETURN USL TO ITS ROOTS ’ |
| 6 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 7 | The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet . |
| 8 | The cost of a £75,000 net pay package would rise from today 's £130,600 to £177,000 . |
| 9 | But HP also hopes for sales from heavy transaction processing users , taking advantage of MPE 's 20% to 30% performance advantage when running commercial TP applications , and from mainframe downsizers , more comfortable with MPE 's mature systems management infrastructure when compared to Unix . |
| 10 | That is absolutely right , and nothing has more clearly revealed the Opposition 's attitude to people 's wishes in the matter than their persistent hostility to the 4 million or more people who have taken out personal pensions for exactly that reason . |
| 11 | Mravinsky 's attitude to dynamics seems to be on the lines of ‘ no gradual inflexion unless explicit instructions are given to the contrary ’ . |
| 12 | Gandhi 's reference to people being allowed to follow their own desires , provided they were old enough to know what they were doing and were not subjected to force or material inducements , is an indication of the dubious conversion methods employed by some missionaries . |
| 13 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |
| 14 | If Japanese women were to continue having children for the rest of this century at their 1989 fertility rate of 1.57 , Japan 's population would inch up from today 's 123m to 126m in 2005 . |
| 15 | Canada 's trade surplus widened to $1.1 billion in November , while Sweden 's fell to $249m in December . |
| 16 | Unix System Laboratories sewed up a deal last week with IBM to port Tuxedo to AIX on the ES/9000 mainframe , Blue 's $60,000 to $23m machine . |
| 17 | Its reward raises the price on Escobar 's head to $11.7m . |
| 18 | THE uniform business rate , which almost tripled Roger 's rates to £6,250 in two years ; |
| 19 | A good start would be to purchase A fishkeeper 's guide to Fish Breeding by Dr Chris Andrews published by Salamander . |
| 20 | ‘ Delightful ’ says the Gourmet 's Guide to Fish and Chips , and there 's certainly no down side here . |
| 21 | Barclays deepened the gloom with first-half profits collapsing from last year 's £378million to £51million . |
| 22 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |
| 23 | A 46% rise for BAA 's profits to £220m is forecast with the dividend likely to go up 13% to 6.5p . |
| 24 | Professor Graham Hankinson , the Wimpey Professsor of Business at Thames Valley University said that even though companies were drastically curtailing their training and development activities , this initiative by Wimpey was a positive reflection of the company 's commitment to staff training at every level . |
| 25 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 26 | Turner 's Mercury and Herse suffered a similar fate , dragging down the sale 's total to £1.2 million with a punishing 42 per cent bought in by value . |
| 27 | He was told to take God 's word to people who were supposed to be following God . |
| 28 | The final dividend , payable on July 1 , was slashed from last year 's 1.5p to 0.9p . |
| 29 | His proposals would limit Harlow 's spending to £11.20 million instead of £17.953 million budgeted by the council , and that of Castle Point to £7.97 million instead of £8.47 million . |
| 30 | Production rises push PremCo 's profit to £15.1m |