Example sentences of "[n mass] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1795 Parliament voted that King George III award Elkington £1,000 to carry out a survey of his achievements . |
| 2 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 3 | As a result of the work of the Working Party , the Council decided to establish a Work Organisation Research Centre at the University of Aston Management Centre , and awarded a grant of £278,371 to set up a programme of research . |
| 4 | Although it costs more than 49p to pick up a copy today , ‘ The Faust Tapes ’ represents money well spent . |
| 5 | He came racing towards me just as I got out , I had already shed my parachute in the aircraft to get out a little more schnell before he accosted me , I got the most bitter rollicking for leaving the aircraft outside his engineering hangar area . |
| 6 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 7 | Students from all departments were invited to submit bids for up to £1000 to carry out a project of their own initiative that would develop their enterprise skills . |
| 8 | The costs involved are agreed at the sum of eight hundred and eighty one pounds and twenty five pence to set up the trust and an annual cost of three thousand two hundred and thirty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 9 | Sarah Brightman 's Rose was a bloodless creature — she has to make us believe in the devil-may-care spirit of theatrical folk to show up the stuffiness of the aristocrats . |
| 10 | The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall . |
| 11 | Inside the whale , for three days and three nights , Jonah prayed to the Lord and swore his future obedience so convincingly that God ordered the fish to vomit up the penitent . |
| 12 | We order a further 1,000kg at £5/kg to make up the 3,000kg . |
| 13 | The Chancellor had the Prime Minister 's support , according to government sources , in intervening to the tune of $2bn to $3bn to shore up the pound after pressure intensified following the news two weeks ago of a £2bn current account deficit in August — the third worst on record . |
| 14 | I 've been reared on Christmasses and New Years that deserve the label ‘ silly season ’ , when news editors scrabble among the Christmas morning swimmers and the New Year 's Eve drink statistics to cobble up a headline , but this sudden toppling of Evil Empires and establishment of Free Democracies ( poor souls ! |
| 15 | Each of these Compacts has been offered up to £50,000 to set up a Compact structure . |
| 16 | In Niemeyers , for example , the company language is English which is used for 70% of all non-Dutch communication ( with French and German each approximately 15% to make up the rest ) . |
| 17 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 18 | These developments hold great promise for severely disabled people who , although dependent on a machine , can have a feeling of relative independence ; their range of control in communicating and getting an appropriate response is increased and they are less dependent on people to carry out a number of everyday living activities . |
| 19 | The 7,500 clubs around the UK are invited to enter a team of five people to carry out a local environmental project . |
| 20 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 21 | It is hoped that most governors would spend the whole of their service without having to face such an unwelcome decision as the dismissal of a member of staff and would be able to concentrate their efforts on engaging and supporting the best people to carry out the educational tasks for which they were responsible . |
| 22 | That requires more people to carry out the Conservative Government Acts of Parliament , and we are bound to employ more people to do that . |
| 23 | The College was woefully under-staffed ; the preparation of a worthy volume of transactions would require not only staff to do the work that would be reported , but also staff to write up the material . |
| 24 | Such surveys , whether by sea or land , again required not merely naturalists to accompany them , but museum staff to write up the collections and make the knowledge public . |
| 25 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 26 | ‘ And are n't I the one forever telling people to find out the facts first ? |
| 27 | That is , according to false memory syndrome theorists , somehow the process of therapy , the process of disclosure , the process of interviewing people to find out the details of the abuse , somehow that constructs the abuse itself , somehow that 's erm the thing that 's that 's causing the memories . |
| 28 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 29 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 30 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |