Example sentences of "[verb] to [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 2 | The first-time 1.5p dividend should jump to 5p at the full-year stage . |
| 3 | Financial services including pensions and life insurance subsidiary Allied Dunbar , whose Liverpool office is one of the country 's best performers saw trading profits leap to £376m in the nine months from £142m . |
| 4 | Figures 4–6 , above , show that whereas only 5% of items from the Main Building were placed on reserve , this figure rose to 23% in the case of material from the Advocates ' Library , and 45% in the case of books outhoused in the Annexe . |
| 5 | Helped to some extent by a profits upgrading from James Capel ( Amstrad 's broker ) , shares rose to 87p in the spring . |
| 6 | Sell on a strike they say , so no doubt the time to sell 3DO Co Inc 's shares are as soon as the first marketable interactive multimedia home entertainment centres to the company 's standard are announced : the shares , floated at $15 , rose to $20.125 on the first day of trading going to $24 on the second day . |
| 7 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 8 | Pentos shares had dropped to 61p on the Monday before Christmas , having slipped 5.5p to 65.5p the previous week . |
| 9 | The Minister , however , does not give a damn about what is happening to people on the lowest incomes ; he does not even understand what is happening to local government . |
| 10 | Literary sources may be even more valuable , especially those relating to people like the Romans who held pearls in exceptionally high regard . |
| 11 | A SPIN-OFF from the Teesside Women 's Cancer Prevention Unit appeal , which has raised over £ 5m in four years , became £500 richer yesterday thanks to staff at the Royal Mail sorting office in Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | The comments will be confined to works of the type which have been transcribed and printed , not to holograph manuscripts , for in this instance all the uncertainties mentioned compound to produce results which will be beyond the skills of the vast majority of local historians to interpret . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're confined to barracks for the time being , Private Nobody . ’ |
| 14 | The agreement marking use of " you know what I mean ? " seems to be confined to people under the age of about 30 , which makes it likely that misunderstandings , if they occur , will be inter-generational . |
| 15 | Significantly is that almost all the new cases are confined to people in the high risk groups or those who 've knowingly had sexual contact with them . |
| 16 | Indeed , had these two phenomena been directly proportional , the decreases should have amounted to 80% for the transcripts of all involved genes . |
| 17 | They were addressed to people like the manager of the Ritz Hotel — asking if he had seen a handbag ‘ she ’ had left during a brief stay . |
| 18 | Faint and incredible , the thought fitted into her mind — P'raps the old crow cares what happens to folk like the Cap'n 's nigger ? |
| 19 | Work something out , its rather extraordinary happens to people of the same age as me |
| 20 | If I can understand people after twenty five thirty years in sales and marketing listening to people on the phone and knowing how important it is in this then I then that 's fine . |
| 21 | It is impressed with the amount of investment Intel proposes putting into Pentium saying that when the chip reaches the height of its production Intel will have spent $5bn on it compared to $100m on the 80386 and $1bn on the 80486 . |
| 22 | This technique was applied to data from the 1981 Greater London Transportation Survey , which were just becoming available , and the corresponding 1971 survey . |
| 23 | Apple Computer Inc 's fiscal second quarter margins slumped to 38% from the company 's traditional 42% to 45% , and there is no cheer to come from the European market . |
| 24 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 25 | you must n't speak to people on the phone |
| 26 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
| 27 | According to data from the Prices and Incomes Commission , the proportion of urban households living below the Poverty Datum Line rose from 35 per cent in 1985 to 55 per cent in 1987 . |
| 28 | The northern hemisphere is experiencing record lows in ozone levels , according to data from the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 29 | Not according to 60% of the men . |
| 30 | ‘ A lot of the credit for that goes not only to the photographers themselves who have argued their case for greater prominence , but a great debt is owed to people like the editor Harold Evans who pioneered the creative use of photography in papers . |