Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
| 2 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 3 | The company has recently carried out the £2m contract to provide brickwork and blockwork for Conder on its Teesside Retail Park scheme . |
| 4 | Manning , 31 , tried out the 150mph car on September 21 , a month before its launch . |
| 5 | Environmental groups successfully appealed against the issue of the general permit , and in July 1987 , won an injunction which cut short the salmon season for the drift-net fleet . |
| 6 | So ideally what the industry needs is an alternative that erm , is really , that kills off the sheep scab bug , and at the same time er , is er , affords protection against other erm , things like er , fly er strike . |
| 7 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 8 | The move to set up the staff commission comes after local authorities asked that a body be set up to protect the interests of employees . |
| 9 | These show how the data trend is shifted if φ is calculated using the value of u τ that would exist in the absence of stratification instead of the actual value . |
| 10 | John Mackay , Royal Mail 's genial director and general manager , handed over the £1,000 cheque to Brian Rookley , the SSRU president , at the weekend . |
| 11 | NU-SWIFT GROUP has put the finishing touches to France 's second biggest leveraged buyout , confirming yesterday the £218.7m sale of an 88.5 per cent stake in Compagnie Centrale Sicli . |
| 12 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 13 | Glenister , 30 , hitched up the 19ft yacht and towed it to his home in Chawleigh , Devon , four miles away , Exeter magistrates were told . |
| 14 | If this elective is not requested then the data range is divided into classes with an equal range . |
| 15 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 16 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 17 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 18 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 19 | Whoever takes on the trout farm will have their work cut out . |
| 20 | The US is buying up the salmon fishing rights of Greenland 's fishing industry in an attempt to restore the salmon population of its own rivers . |
| 21 | Compared to the Intel 486DX-50 currently used in a high-end personal computer , it delivers twice the MFLOPS capacity at less than 40% of the price . |
| 22 | the one on the corner , you know where the fish shop used to be |
| 23 | John Hodgson and friends Gary and Robert Sowerby abseiled down the 70ft Devil 's Hole near Great Ayton , North Yorkshire , on Sunday . |
| 24 | As library users have found to their cost , the shelf that held the books marked 636.7 last week might hold books quite differently numbered today , as the stock grows and books move along , and yet the position of a subject 's bookstock can rapidly be found once the all.important subject number is identified from the index . |
| 25 | Sort out the travellers.Landowners demand police get tough . |
| 26 | Transatlantic tourists and suburban groupies may be willing to fork out the £1 cover charge for sporadic glimpses of Michael Caine and Jason Donovan , but grown-ups are kept loyal by cooking that is honest and robust and hardly ever hiccups in spite of turning over almost as many portions as Ramsden 's . |
| 27 | Finally , materials stockpiling was encouraged by the Japanese government in 1972–3 in an attempt to hold down the yen exchange rate . |
| 28 | He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago . |
| 29 | Stripped film from the security camera that videos customers in the Praed Street shop , Took away the staff roster , which reveals who was working on the crucial day , Removed the shop 's till rolls , Attempted to pursuade the female member of staff to forget Mr Onanuga told her he served Mr Lamont on the Monday , and Refused to allow the woman to keep a copy of her signed statement because , it said , it could be handed to a newspaper . |
| 30 | Its screenface went blank ; its mouth spat out the data medallion into his hand . |