Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Carter returned from school at 4.30 and was straightaway despatched half-a-mile to the only shop for 28lb of coal . |
| 2 | The release of additional space has allowed 150 rarely seen works to be brought out of store , restored and with contemporary frames intact . |
| 3 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 4 | She has always considered people to be of prime importance no matter how elevated her position . |
| 5 | In addition to the emergency grants to individuals and small teams , the foundation has also given $500,000 to the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg for the preservation of one of the world 's largest herbaria , Some $80,000 was awarded to a popular science magazine Chemistry and Life and $4,000 was given to a special high school in Moscow that maintains high standards for teaching physics and mathematics . |
| 6 | It was reported on Oct. 4 that Taiwan had also contributed $30,000,000 to the front-line states . |
| 7 | Social services bring other partially sighted people to his nursery to show how life can be fulfilling for blind people even in the most visual of surroundings . |
| 8 | Research into a disused waste dump off the Californian coast had shown that the artificial habitat created by the drums had actually attracted fish to the area . |
| 9 | The PA 's international director Ian Taylor reported that the government through its Know How Fund for aid to eastern Europe had recently contributed £30,000 to the Senior Managers Attachment Programme ( SMAP ) . |
| 10 | , The Scottish Lands Tribunal recently awarded £560,000 to ScotRail chairman John Cameron , who was prevented from planting Glen Lochay , the last forest-free glen in Perthshire , with conifers , An attempt by the Crown Estate to buy 77,000 acres of Scottish wilderness containing the four highest mountains in Britain and several endangered species has failed . |