Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the moment , let us ignore the modern specialised approach and concentrate on tackling a typical carp lake which will allow you to fish it in whatever style you choose . |
| 2 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 3 | A ROTARY club is launching a ambitious £6,000 project to help more than two million people in poverty-stricken Romania . |
| 4 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 5 | Bangladesh 's first ever democratic elections in February this year promised a freer media environment bringing with it the relaxation of curbs on communication activities by Christians and other minority faith groups ( see Action March/April 1991 ) , but the political situation has changed very little leaving Christian writers and publishers in a vulnerable position . |
| 6 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 7 | ( Labour-supporting Elton is becoming a tabloid folk devil . ) |
| 8 | It was adopted by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) becoming a simple data access method for all databases — a common language which provides users with the ability to interrogate relational databases from a variety of vendors . |
| 9 | It was adopted by the American National Standards Institute , becoming a simple data access method for all databases — a common language which provides users with the ability to interrogate relational databases from a variety of vendors . |
| 10 | This signal shows that McCreery was assuming that the forces advancing from the south were already in the process of becoming a 5 Corps responsibility . |
| 11 | The town of Telford has attracted a new £65,000,000 car components factory which will create 450 new jobs . |
| 12 | In addition the ‘ Best Micrograph ’ selected from all of the winners will win a further $2,500 prize . |
| 13 | These findings are consistent with our early experience , when attempts were made to isolate a 10 cm segment of oesophagus between two occluding balloons in six subjects . |
| 14 | Two quick-thinking staff at Higher Broughton Branch have been rewarded for helping foil a possible £25,000 card swindle . |
| 15 | The government also proposed a new media policy , giving the television service , Doordarshan , and All-India Radio autonomy by turning them into public corporations , similar to the status enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) . |
| 16 | It raises an eyebrow over TI 's pricing policies noting that ‘ after announcing a low-ball $400 price for 33MHz parts , the company now quotes $1,900 for 40MHz chips as an ‘ average price for 1993 , ’ delivering a kick in the pants to Sparcstation clone vendors . ’ |
| 17 | A French General of Dragoons found a bespectacled infantry Colonel inside a tavern close to the river and angrily demanded to know why the barricaded bridge had not been captured . |
| 18 | Super Saints : St Aloysius of Huyton , the 1987 LiCat top Merseyside snooker team champions , beat Prescot 's champions BICC 3–1 , with John Timson contributing a best series break of 44 , in the first round at Derby Lane last night . |
| 19 | Dubbed the RSC-1X ruggedised portable workstation , SAIC has added a removable 535Mb disk , three-button trackball and a high output power supply , plus a 64Mb memory and 1.2Gb disk expansion options . |
| 20 | Immediate plans for Viet Nam include opening a new sales office in Hanoi and extending the range of Group products . |
| 21 | The Bombay , Baroda , and Central India Railway built a grand headquarters building across the road from their station at Churchgate , but the station was left to fend for itself . |
| 22 | The exhibition has aroused comment in the British press as the first to impose a stiff £6 entrance charge , albeit including an ‘ acoustiguide ’ a sort of sophisticated Walkman . |
| 23 | These two features combine to provide a comprehensive data retrieval mechanism allowing access to recorded information at any level , ranging from single geometric entities to complete machine assemblies . |
| 24 | In order that the design request can be formulated and handled in a systematic way , it is necessary to provide a structured data base in both site systems . |
| 25 | On board seismic data processing using two Promax workstations involved a full 2D processing sequence being applied to one subsurface line per 3D swathe resulting in 9000 kms of processed 2D data . |
| 26 | In April next year , the government will introduce a rare species bill , similar to Britain 's Wildlife and Countryside Act , but the emphasis is said by Cecelia Song of the World Wide Fund for Nature to be more on development than on environmental protection . |
| 27 | Richard , from Mossley Hill , cast 25 yards out into six feet of water and used a 2 lb hook length and 5 lb main line . |
| 28 | And a good lesson was learnt — always look before you reverse , especially when you are driving a 30 cwt. truck . |
| 29 | At the end of this month , the operator plans to launch a major sales campaign and to open several Itineris sales locations . |
| 30 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |