Example sentences of "[verb] [n mass] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building firm goes £112m into the red |
| 2 | This year , the Royal had nine overseas pavilions , but 51 countries were represented on exhibitors ' stands and , contrary to the impression of John Rennie 's piece , we sold 97% of the space to a record 1546 exhibitors . |
| 3 | The group plans to invest $150m over the period of the programme . |
| 4 | The group plans to invest $150m over the period of the programme . |
| 5 | Further extension to include 90% of the curve yields the inclusive graphic standard deviation σ 1 , ( Folk & ward , 1957 ) , which uses the 5th and 95th percentiles to define a spread corresponding to 1·65 standard deviations on either side of the mean . |
| 6 | If it is not feasible to move the fish , then change 50% of the pondwater , once again replacing it with dechlorinated water at the right temperature . |
| 7 | 15% of dairy farmers producing 50% of the community 's milk . |
| 8 | I know from my photographic experience that both paper and acetate readily stretch and shrink with changes in humidity and that even the finest 0.10mm line represents 2.5m on the ground . |
| 9 | The company 's current output is 40,000 units per month , which represents 90% of the company 's productive capacity . |
| 10 | Yet West Germany 's Bayer and Hoechst went on to dominate the industry ( by 1913 Germany produced 90% of the world 's dyes ) because , unlike British companies , they made the essential first-mover investments in production , distribution and management . |
| 11 | Legal & General 's Business Protection Plan now enables firms to claim 80% of the sum assured when terminal illness is diagnosed and death is expected within 12 months . |
| 12 | Just a year after chairman Peter Adams and his team completed a £72.5m buyout from Bass and Courage in May 1991 ( which between then owned 80% of the stock ) , the group went public . |
| 13 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
| 14 | Using data for the period 1954–74 , Khalil and Hanna ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that since the scheme was initiated the dissolved salt content of the Nile at the head of the delta has increased by 29 per cent . |
| 15 | The local case studies were developed using data from the Register of Sasines and other documentary sources , together with semi-structured interviews with consumers and producers of private sector housing . |
| 16 | For example , unemployment insurance benefits are allocated according to receipts from that source ( given in MERGE file ) , education expenditure is allocated to the families of students , using data from the Census of Population . |
| 17 | Using data from the Science Citation Index , produced by the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia , the NSF produces annual reports that have become indispensable to the US Congress in its deliberations on government policy . |
| 18 | Thus , betas were calculated for the period 1926–31 and portfolios selected from these results ; then the returns were estimated for these portfolios using data from the period 1932 . |
| 19 | Using data from the health and lifestyle survey shows that a lower proportion of the older age groups have a BMI within what is defined as indicating a correct weight ( see Table 6.10 ) . |
| 20 | MITI estimates , using data from the Bank of Japan , that if Japan 's imports of services had been included in its trade statistics , then the trade surplus would have been $14 billion , $18 billion lower than reported . |
| 21 | The Social Statistics Research Unit ( SSRU ) at City University is to provide the focus for a research programme into individual and household change using data from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ' ( OPCS ) Longitudinal Study ( LS ) . |
| 22 | The U.K. , Germany and France have three of the top five pharmaceutical companies in the world and Europe supplies 25% of the world 's sales of pharmaceutical products . |
| 23 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 24 | Hardware on board the craft transmitting data from the mapper has recently suffered a fault , leaving the low-resolution data the only kind available to ordinary ground stations . |
| 25 | Change data in the spreadsheet and the WP table and chart change too |
| 26 | In 1863 he had given £1,500 to the endowment fund of the Hull Seamen 's Orphanage and he was appointed chairman in 1866 . |
| 27 | Although the requirement for a double diary entry may have increased errors , our data showed that patients are more likely to make retrospective entries in the evening and are more likely to miss data in the evening than in the morning , but errors in data entry ( inferred from discrepancies between the two forms of entry ) are no more likely in the evening than the morning . |
| 28 | Indeed , Malingreau and Tucker ( 1988 ) report that there is evidence from remotely sensed data for the recolonisation by forest vegetation of some ranches in the Matto Grosso following the abandonment of farms that were never economically or ecologically viable ( see Fearnside 1984 ) . |
| 29 | He ordered the inspection of all UK registered aircraft of the type to be carried out , before the next flight if possible . |
| 30 | The group owned 55% of the share capital prior to the rights issue , ie , 1,100,000 shares . |