Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
| 2 | Let me put this to Geoffrey Hoskin , Professor Hoskin we 've heard of a people ruled by Tsars and then by , is there going to be any thing but anarchy now ? |
| 3 | I 've come to a series of decisions . |
| 4 | They also come equipped with a 1.44Mb floppy , CD-ROM drive , 5Gb 8mm tape drive , four 1Gb SCSI-2 hard files and an SCSI-2 controller . |
| 5 | They also come equipped with a 1.44Mb floppy , CD-ROM drive , 5Gb 8mm tape drive , four 1Gb SCSI-2 hard files and an SCSI-2 controller . |
| 6 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 7 | So , I 've gone through a series of examples of exotoxins I want to just er , as far as is possible summarize the general properties of exotoxins . |
| 8 | It does sound as if your Clownfish have developed into a pair . |
| 9 | British Rail maintenance staff have voted for a series of twenty-four hour strikes , starting next week . |
| 10 | Rumblings that the election might be postponed once again have grown after a series of ominous events in recent weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ As you may remember when Peter Lipscomb spoke to you last year , we have embarked on a £53 million investment programme . |
| 12 | Federal and state governments in Australia have embarked on a series of national initiatives which show a firm commitment to tackling social inequalities in health . |
| 13 | The Governors of the eight US states abutting the Great Lakes have agreed on a series of voluntary pollution controls . |
| 14 | According to Amnesty International , human rights abuses have intensified since a series of abortive coup attempts by the army starting in May 1988 . |
| 15 | The public sector and its workers have benefited from a series of pre-election sweeteners , but Major 's one ‘ big idea ’ , the Citizen 's Charter , has offered diminishing returns for the Tories from its inception . |
| 16 | Its May list of the most popular buys has Hartstone Group , the hosiery and leather goods company whose shares have plummeted after a series of profits warnings , in fourth spot . |
| 17 | The £10m they have pledged towards a £13m rescue package has yet to materialise . |
| 18 | The Tories ' new charges for eye and dental checks have led to a 30pc drop in tests performed , this has resulted in eye and dental diseases being detected later if at all , making them more difficult and expensive to treat . |
| 19 | No , television advertising of beer should be stopped because the regulations surrounding it ( do n't show excessive drinking , do n't associate drinking with social or sexual success , do n't even hint that people might enjoy the sensation of being just a little bit , no , do n't even say the word , drunk ) have led to a series of creative executions that wander around aimlessly avoiding the subject of beer altogether , until the very end when they name it , or maybe not . |
| 20 | Developers Foinavon have slapped in a £5m bid for first-class cricket ground Acklam Park in Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | In ‘ crisis hit ’ Middlesbrough , for instance , the council and Bellway Urban Renewals have launched into a £6.5m partnership to build 140 low-cost homes on a 7.6 acre site at the resource-starved Netherfields estate . |