Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite rightly , Jacobs called the $100,00 and went all-in , the rest of his pile building the pot to $1,062,000 . |
| 2 | Offered to the museum for £800 by Hans Calmann , who subsequently lowered the price to £550 as the Committee ‘ felt a little uncertain about the Bust — or rather , I should say whether we should pay up ’ because a bust of the same period ‘ more certainly by Foggini ’ had been purchased by the V&A for £80 a few years before . |
| 3 | Every lot sold , bringing the total to $15.8 million ( £8.8 million ) , a record session for a French furniture sale in America . |
| 4 | He was allowed another £100 for masters ( bringing the total to £350 a year ) . |
| 5 | We have increased funding for the cardiac services this year by a quarter bringing the total to £20 million . |
| 6 | EDUCATION spending is to rise by £523 million , an increase of 6 per cent , bringing the total to £9.5 billion . |
| 7 | A steeper climb of around 500% occurred between 1960 and 1975 bringing the average to £20,000 . |
| 8 | The group 's cash balances shrank from £77 million to £36.5 million , and a token final dividend of 1p slashes the total to 3p , from 10.25p in 1991 . |
| 9 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 10 | Assuming unchanged interest rates , interest on the £50,000 mortgage comes to £4,656 , but if the £10,000 were taken off deposit and used to diminish the mortgage to £40,000 the annual cost falls to £3,564 . |
| 11 | Senior managers told a press conference that the accident posed no danger to people or the environment . |
| 12 | Field notebooks ( some held in Library ) — provide a back-up to data on specimen labels , and biographical information . |
| 13 | One possible way of getting round the problem of the ‘ doorstep ’ explanation is to write a letter to people in the sample to let them know in advance of the survey and the coming call by an interviewer . |
| 14 | Over a period of days or even hours , pollution concentrations may rise to levels which pose a threat to people 's health . |
| 15 | Obviously , any attempt to introduce additional chemicals into the atmosphere needs very careful consideration of whether the chemicals themselves pose a threat to people , plants and animals . |
| 16 | Trading in Bunzl was fast and furious , volumes topping 6m as the market quote firmed a penny to 94p . |
| 17 | TI firmed a penny to 355p . |
| 18 | Fashion group Helene 's agreed £5.5 million takeover offer for Gabbicci left Helene 1p weaker at 22p , while Gabbicci firmed a penny to 42p . |
| 19 | Cable & Wireless firmed a penny to 866p on reports that its Mercury subsidiary is planning to launch a mass-market mobile phone operation . |
| 20 | A bolt-rig , incorporating a 2oz to 3oz bomb , although not essential , is nevertheless a very successful method for this extreme long range fishing . |
| 21 | But when the milestone passed 123 days , breaking a long-standing record , terminal management boosted the amount to £5000 . |
| 22 | Assuming 5 p.c. inflation that boosted the pension to £29,867 a year . ’ |
| 23 | The final is up from 5.05p to 6.35p pushing the total to 7.85p , a jump of 25.6% . |
| 24 | My 525i was 16% more powerful than its predecessor and capable of pushing the car to 143mph , or streaking from 1 to 62mph in 8.6 seconds . |
| 25 | Typically , he did not break the news to Arrese himself , but instructed Carrero to do it . |
| 26 | The appeal judges reduced the award to £39,634 . |
| 27 | Revised plans , omitting the classrooms and making other alterations , reduced the cost to £16,500 and in January 1953 the then Ministry of Finance granted permission to build . |
| 28 | A five-man committee , headed by Judge Desmond Perrett QC , reduced the fine to £4,000 — £2,000 suspended for two years — and cut costs to £500 . |
| 29 | It had previously been estimated that £40,000 could be saved ; the Committee decided that this was unrealistic , and reduced the estimate to £25,000 . |
| 30 | Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing . |