Example sentences of "[to-vb] [n mass] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To retrieve data the controller has to tell the drive to move its heads , one track at a time , to the requisite track and where to start reading on that track . |
| 2 | Using a pole , fixed line , size 24 hook and wisp of fish or half a harbour rag it would be possible to catch fish an inch long one after another . |
| 3 | Do you erm have you got to know people a bit on the flats ? |
| 4 | He says it 's meant the loss of half a million pounds income for Oxfam and they 're continuing to lose £10,000 a week . |
| 5 | After 1991 people will be able to deposit £1,800 a year over five years in a special account in any bank or building society . |
| 6 | ‘ Unemployment is very likely to cause people a lot of stress and I feel quite concerned about how depressed friends can become when unemployed . |
| 7 | Prices which fell to below $10,000 a tonne in October , recovered in July 1990 to reach $10,337 a tonne , owing to restricted supply caused by a strike in June at the Doniambo plant in New Caledonia and renewed buoyancy in the demand for Japanese stainless steel . |
| 8 | If you 're able to lend us the entire amount of your covenanted donation at the outset ( e.g. £100 if you decide to covenant £25 a year ) we can invest your contribution as a lump sum and earn extra interest over the years and still reclaim the tax . |
| 9 | We would have to win £100,000 a year to make the yard viable — and that would not include buying new horses . ’ |
| 10 | Now they are to lose their income support and housing benefit and allowed to borrow £420 a year at inflation-rate interest . |
| 11 | Now they are to lose their income support and housing benefit and allowed to borrow £420 a year at inflation-rate interest . |
| 12 | Everyone knows it is in their interest to give Heron the time to sell on its property . |
| 13 | The money is taken out of your pre-taxed income , so if you choose to give £10 a month , it will only cost you £7.50 — with the tax you would normally pay ( at 25 per cent basic rate ) going to charity , instead of to the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | The idea is to give townspeople a taste of the countryside . |
| 15 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 16 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 17 | That is a matter of choice , and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not wish to deny people the opportunity of employment . |
| 18 | The company which used to give £40,000 a year to Tory funds , launched a stinging attack on Government policies . |
| 19 | I want to give people a choice , and the system that we have set up through ICSTIS and the regulator will do just that . |
| 20 | to give people a sense of belonging of being supported |
| 21 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 22 | However , some people are more affected by nerves than others so be ready to take this into account and to give people a chance to rethink or rephrase an answer , especially if it seems out of keeping with previous answers or what you know about them from their c.v . |
| 23 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 24 | Setting up so many colonies to give people a chance to practise religion in their own way had helped produce a great diversity among the English colonies . |
| 25 | In Mexico and El Salvador , television has been used experimentally as an educational medium and , in Brazil , classic novels have been serialised to give people a knowledge of their own culture . |
| 26 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 27 | This little band are know as the Medieval Heritage Society , a re-enactment group with a strange desire to give people a glimpse of life in the 1450's . |
| 28 | One also needs to give people a reason for wanting to be successful . |
| 29 | We always try to give people an idea of what to wear before they arrive — or rather , of what not to wear . |
| 30 | A shadow programme to give people an idea what they 'd earn on commission is in effect meantime . |