Example sentences of "[verb] the [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New hedgerows planted totalled 16,500 miles , but these mostly lacked the species diversity of the older ones . |
| 2 | Ask the fishmonger to skin the plaice fillets for you . |
| 3 | Wolves have completed the £150,000 signing of Aston Villa centre half Derek Mountfield , who has been on loan at Molineux for the past 27 months . |
| 4 | MANCHESTER CITY have completed the £700,000 signing of the Blackburn Rovers defender Colin Hendry . |
| 5 | Graphical Data Display Manager ( GDDM ) to enable the graphics capabilities of terminals on the system |
| 6 | To enable the data base to handle this multiple tree state a connector record must be established in addition to the element records . |
| 7 | In particular , we saw how such transformations can help make the d Q of different batches more similar , and help unbend curvy lines ; the result in both cases is to enable the data analyst to re-express the data simply in the conventional form : data = fit + residual . |
| 8 | There must be a commitment by management to enable the staff member to try to implement ideas and methods learned on the course . |
| 9 | If you are a customer , then this is what you will hear on the phone when contacting the sales desk . |
| 10 | If even this measure were deemed politically unacceptable , then by maintaining the £30,000 limit over time , the real value of the relief would , of course , decline . |
| 11 | The US is buying up the salmon fishing rights of Greenland 's fishing industry in an attempt to restore the salmon population of its own rivers . |
| 12 | The database administrator may choose to optimise the performance of some query type which is posed frequently , but these considerations are not made when building the data model . |
| 13 | Alternatively , a ‘ notification ’ procedure usually involves the data user informing the subject when a file is created on them ( eg. The Netherlands ) , or upon communication to a third party . |
| 14 | Instead , increased emphasis will be given to strengthening protection and management of Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park , including increased efforts to monitor the rhino population . |
| 15 | To prevent a repetition of the vandalism , surveillance cameras and other security measures have been installed to monitor the 9ft statue . |
| 16 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 17 | Looking at it and the bleak shore of Flotta beyond , the memories came flooding back : pink gins before Sunday lunch at twopence a throw ; dressing up as Tartars and Eskimos and Bedouins for Tribal parties ; cinema shows where the reels were laced up in the wrong order ; darts competitions in the wardroom flat ; early winter morning torpedo firings in the Flow , very dark and cold ; walks to Longhope for fresh eggs , or fishing for sea-trout in the bay ; piping the admiral as we passed the headquarters ship and eased our way down to Switha Gate bound for distant waters , the captain on the compass platform with cap at an angle , elbows on hips and gloved hands turned upwards , Spider beside him puffing smoke through a black holder and advising courses to steer ; and then , as the ship adjusted herself to the roll and rhythm of the sea , a last flashing message from the signal station at Hoxa Head ( now vandalized and abandoned ) , as it would be the first on our return , days or weeks later . |
| 18 | The turnover of the fibreglass industry passed the £100,000,000 mark about 1959 I believe . |
| 19 | She passed the sales office and made the turn toward the newsroom . |
| 20 | He passed the staff college , and held a staff captain 's appointment in northern command in 1934–6 . |
| 21 | Valley Bridge firm 's award WARDS of Sherburn , near Scarborough , the company which stepped in to finance and build the £130,000 barriers on the resort 's notorious Valley Bridge , has won an accolade from the Civic Society . |
| 22 | It will probably never build the 2.8m transistor 601 , which is projected to have a three-year life cycle . |
| 23 | As TCI 's Mr Vierra says : ‘ We 'll build the data highway . |
| 24 | Both suggested Direct Banking and therefore shared the £500 prize . |
| 25 | Debt is seen as Pilkington 's main difficulty with estimates of £840m at the end of March now said to be standing at £950m and likely to hit the £1bn figure . |
| 26 | As can be seen from the example below a typical partner in a firm who is married , pays interest on a practice loan and , being aged between 46 and 50 , makes personal pension plan contributions of 25% of his share of profit , is unlikely to hit the 40% tax rate before his earnings exceed £45,000 ( the example assumes maximum pension contributions . |
| 27 | McGregor , of Carson Drive , Irvine , denied knowingly breaching the Data Protection Act by using information in the Scottish Criminal Records Office computer for other than police purposes and disclosing the information to another . |
| 28 | But now the decoy helps to preserve the duck population . |
| 29 | THAILAND 'S James Wattana shocked in-form John Parrott with a 10–5 victory in the final of the £60,000 Humo Masters in Antwerp last night to claim the £15,000 winner 's cheque . |
| 30 | Dastra in our last issue , has come forward to claim the £25 prize and a cheque is on its way to her . |