Example sentences of "[n mass] [to-vb] [adv prt] a " 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 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 . |
| 3 | Although it costs more than 49p to pick up a copy today , ‘ The Faust Tapes ’ represents money well spent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | Each of these Compacts has been offered up to £50,000 to set up a Compact structure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The 7,500 clubs around the UK are invited to enter a team of five people to carry out a local environmental project . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 14 | In southern India The Body Shop has provided the means to set up a boys ' town for destitute youngsters . |
| 15 | The DTI and the DES have provided £2m to set up a pilot scheme . |
| 16 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 17 | The Acts also provide for a quota scheme , which makes it compulsory for every employer of more than twenty people to take on a quota of at least 3 per cent registered disabled , although few firms adhere to this scheme and monitoring is poor . |
| 18 | Disability Working Allowance will make it easier for disabled people to take up a job . |
| 19 | Other people to blot out a face . |
| 20 | It can indeed be argued that the strict Calvinists who controlled England during this period were attempting by such means to bring about a cultural revolution ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 21 | Allied Provincial 's David Shaw said Phonelink estimated that over the coming year , it would need at least £5m to set up a second production site , to buy more data engines and to fund research and development work . |
| 22 | Even recruitment agencies are prepared to pay £600 a time to vet management staff , and £225 to check out a secretary , before placing them . |
| 23 | The document says that three of the four Government proposals for new councils would cost between £500 and £1,400 to introduce over a five-year period . |
| 24 | Henry Angus and John MacDonald , who are both from Northampton , admitted forcing Jason Buck to hand over a cash card , punching him and making him drive to his home , where Angus stole a microwave oven . |
| 25 | Their development has been entrusted to the Countryside Commission , which has been given a grant of £600,000 to set up a co-ordinating committee for each forest . |