Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1960 , the Cabinet agreed to write off the £60 million already spent so far on Blue Streak , and to seek an alternative delivery system for British nuclear warheads . |
| 2 | They are unique among the deer family in that both the males and females have antlers which are eaten when shed to build up the reindeer 's calcium stocks . |
| 3 | At this stage management needs to determine how the data will be stored and who is to co-ordinate the process . |
| 4 | Analyst Judith Hurwitz , now running her own shop , Hurwitz Consulting Group , has taken over the multimedia newsletter Media Letter from Myriad Technologies to add to its own Tool Watch . |
| 5 | Pagan Osborne Grace & Calders , Fife 's biggest firm of solicitors , has paid off the staff , including four part-timers , because of the impact of the recession on its conveyancing work combined with the introduction of new technology . |
| 6 | In today 's world he would probably choose to run only the 200m and not the 200m and 400m as Eric Liddell did . |
| 7 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 8 | I never did like sorting out the sheep from the goats … at the end of the first term in the fifth year … did n't like that at all … there was always a sort of … he 's doing ‘ O ’ level , the elite group . |
| 9 | People began to discuss where the aircraft were going to . |
| 10 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 11 | As Gedanken peered into the bubble she began to make out the spacecraft . |
| 12 | The detailed studies are useful in helping to build up the data necessary for a wider picture , but a full explanation requires a broader view . |
| 13 | The Commission aims to open up the £60billion telecoms industry as part of the 1992 single European market . |
| 14 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 15 | No matter what we did we caught carp but still we found that 17lb was about the ceiling and with the bait situation looking very low and the prospect of the homeward journey the following morning we both decided to pack up the carp rods and fish all out for the cats . |
| 16 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |
| 17 | The full extent of the pollution was , however , less than had initially been feared , with gale force winds helping to break up the 40km long slick . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The check-flights will keep the airframe ‘ live ’ and allow a ferry flight to another destination , if the RAF do give up the aircraft , to be a much more cost effective proposition than the notion of dismantling her . |
| 20 | This implies splitting up the data for each time period ( each day , say ) , into that relating to the individual outstanding futures contracts . |
| 21 | In June residents of Sacramento , California , voted to shut down the $342,000,000 Rancho Seco nuclear plant , and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which had agreed to abide by the vote , immediately began to implement its closure . |
| 22 | Just like Sir Anthony Hopkins can afford to turn down the £1 million reputedly offered to make a sequel to Silence of The Lambs . |
| 23 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 24 | Waving his men into a pincer formation , Mortimer surprised the small group of machete-wielding rebels who were trying to wear down the staff of the building . |
| 25 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 26 | There 's no real reason why you , say , should n't start to build up the data on that . |
| 27 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
| 28 | 2.9 If on one or more occasion the carrying out of the Works is delayed in consequence of any circumstance beyond the control of the Landlord which the Landlord could not [ reasonably ] have prevented or avoided then on each such occasion the Landlord shall be allowed such extension of time for carrying out the Works as may be certified by the Architect as being reasonable having regard to the delay in question and the date by which the Landlord is required to carry out the Works as provided in clause 2.8 shall be postponed accordingly The problem here is the uncertainty from the tenant 's point of view , hence the suggestion that there be inserted a long stop date ( see clause 2.8 ) . |
| 29 | If there are any storylines it surely does n't help to wipe out the people who make them — . |
| 30 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |