Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has amassed a £94 million fortune through her family 's food , hotel and banking chain , making her the nation 's 13th richest woman . |
| 2 | For almost a decade he has led a series of protest demonstrations outside abortion clinics throughout England , running foul of the law on countless occasions . |
| 3 | But Wilkinson denies he has made a £1.5 m bid for Arsenal right-back Lee Dixon and centre-half Steve Bould . |
| 4 | But Wilkinson denies he has made a £1.5 m bid for Arsenal right-back Lee Dixon and centre-half Steve Bould . |
| 5 | In this fable for our computer age , a computer freak Joe Jenkins becomes obsessed by a computer game in which he has to save a goldfish . |
| 6 | GUY Edwards , the former Formula One racing driver , tells me from California that he has clinched a £50 million sponsorship deal for the Lotus Formula One team . |
| 7 | He has to pay a £1,000 towards the costs of going to Spain , but because of training ca n't work full-time . |
| 8 | More recently he has produced a series of pieces decorated with routed fluting , such as the box he entered in the national box competition and a citrus fruit squeezer with a range of ribbed heads . |
| 9 | Prior to this , he has introduced a series of characters from a great range of settings . |
| 10 | With this growing experience he has found a means to fight more effectively for social justice and the needs of his fellow-workers . |
| 11 | A British microbiologist claims he has found a means of using bacteria to dispose of human sewage . |
| 12 | Britain has already announced it has extended a £25m ‘ know-how ’ fund to Poland to help it cope with reform . |
| 13 | Measurex Corp , computer-integrated test and measurement systems specialist living in Cupertino , California reports that it has signed a $20m fixed-rate loan with The Bank of New York . |
| 14 | The Trustee Savings Bank Ltd in Ireland is to upgrade its data network to a national X25 network : it has signed a £600,000 contract with Motorola Inc 's Codex for a network consisting of 6500 Series packet switches controlled by the 9800 Network Management System . |
| 15 | Now it has launched a series of competitions to select the best ways of filling the gaps in Britain 's armoury . |
| 16 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 17 | It has awarded a £3.6 million contract to NCR to supply its fourth-generation ATMs , built at its Dundee factory , over the next nine months . |
| 18 | Beltsville , Maryland-based Micros Systems Inc reports that it has bought a 15% equity interest in Fidelio Software GmbH of Munich , Germany for an undisclosed cash sum with the option to buy the company outright over six years ; it also took majority stakes in three Fidelio distribution and support units . |
| 19 | It has bought a 50pc interest in Merchant Ferries , which operates daily roll-on , roll-off services between Heysham , Fleetwood and Warrenpoint , Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | It has bought a 50% interest in Merchant Ferries Ltd , which operates daily roll-on , roll-off services between Heysham , Fleetwood and Warrenpoint , Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | It has bought a 50% interest in Merchant Ferries Ltd , which operates daily roll-on , roll-off services between Heysham , Fleetwood and Warrenpoint , Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | It has published a series of devastating reports about the educational situation , highlighting the government 's negligence . |
| 23 | It has taken a 50pc stake in a yarn spinning mill and a 60pc stake in a scheme to produce industrial wool yarn for export . |
| 24 | Initially 90% of the production will go for use in NEC products ; to date demand is highest for the 9.4″ screens used in laptops , although NEC expects the market to grow to a $8,900m market by 2000 , when it hopes to have a 25% market share . |
| 25 | Tandy said it expects to take a $70m charge against current quarter figures to cover the shortfall between the price to be paid and the value in its books — it says the sale has the potential to increase operating earnings and provide more cash for debt reduction , retail growth or share buy-backs . |
| 26 | As yet this technique has limited spatial and temporal resolution but it does offer a means of looking at human brain activity in a fairly safe way . |
| 27 | It does provide a means of enabling nurses with small children or other dependents to remain in employment . |
| 28 | So really it 's given a 9% increase to farmers which I think is long overdue really . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's got a pair of cutter things ! |
| 30 | I do n't think it 's got a staff room . |