Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 2 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 3 | On Saturday , the four ‘ nuclear ’ powers — Russia , Ukraine , Belarus and Kazakhstan — failed to agree on means of ratifying Start , the US-Soviet agreement to slash strategic nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | An emergency meeting of the three coalition partners on Sept. 6 failed to agree on means of stimulating a recovery in the east . |
| 5 | On two occasions , I tried to talk to people and ask for help . |
| 6 | I tried to explain to people the real meaning of Dominion status with its opportunity of self-government within a wider membership which would always come to its support . |
| 7 | that 's what I tried to say to people , that if you want to be an informed parent then you want to know fully who 's doing it , what , you want to know the content , you want |
| 8 | Again not unknown to the market , having been previously estimated at £500,000–700,000 by Sotheby 's then offered to the Louvre , the first of the Rubens , ‘ Portrait of Madame de Vicq ’ ( lot 56 ) , was nonetheless an outstanding work which narrowly failed to sell at £950,000 ( est. £1–1.5 million ) , and sold after the sale . |
| 9 | Among the high estimated lots , a pair of George I wall-sconces , with coat-of-arms in foliage and shell cartouche by Gabriel Sleath , 1717 , failed to sell at £28,000 ( $48,468 ) against estimate of £30–50,000 . |
| 10 | In their special Spanish sale on 28–29 May Christie 's London offered a portrait of Doña Maria Teresa de Vallabriga which failed to sell at £600,000 . |
| 11 | These include a display cabinet , expected to sell for $200–300,000 ( £110–170,000 ) , and a bed , estimated at $100–150,000 ( £55–85,000 ) . |
| 12 | Pieces from other vendors include Louis XV marquetry bureau of small dimensions by Bernard II Van Risenburgh , estimated at £70–90,000 ( $125–160,000 ) , and a mid-eighteenth-century pair of Venetian painted arte povera centre tables , expected to sell for £60–80,000 ( $100–140,000 ) . |
| 13 | I asked to talk to Cal again . |
| 14 | First out of the gate will be IPX Sparc 3 — a Sun Sparcstation 2-compatible machine with Mbus and TI 's superscalar chip — expected to retail between £8,000 and £9,000 . |
| 15 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 16 | InaCom Corp , Omaha , Nebraska-based computer retailer filed to offer of 5.522m shares , 2.4m of them new to raise cash to cut bank borrowings . |
| 17 | But greed seemed to get to people that way . |
| 18 | 3T3 cells were grown as monolayers in flasks , collected by trypsinization and allowed to stand at 4°C for 2h before incorporation into reaggregates . |
| 19 | The deal which DBV and Darlington council struck went like this : each agreed to put in £150,000 . |
| 20 | As we neared the cemetery , the streets began to fill with people , all heading in the same direction . |
| 21 | But gradually it began to dawn on people , not only politicians but teachers and educationalists as well , that ‘ grammar school for all ’ was an absurd idea . |
| 22 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 23 | Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption . |
| 24 | She decided to risk of pair of ridiculously high-heeled shoes , which she wore only occasionally . |
| 25 | Bad publicity threatened as the chairman started to write to MPs . |
| 26 | When the company decided to venture into fish foods , Steve asked his contact from MAFF , Paul Kirby , who would be the best person to help formulate quality pellets , and Paul put him in touch with Dr Roger Ash , a nutritional expert from Bradford University . |
| 27 | According to Personal Computers and the X Window System , the latest report from the X Business Group , it is the take-up of X by commercial customers that has caused the explosion , with database access expected to account for 32% of sales , mapping and GIS 16% and CASE 11% . |
| 28 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 29 | He refused to accept a travellers ' site at Loch Laggan as a fixed address for Frost , a first offender , who offered to pay at £10 per fortnight . |
| 30 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |