Example sentences of "to put up [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a glowing prospectus about using Winter Marsh for oyster farming , and a Declaration of Intent by a group called Varsov International to put up £5 million in cash for a half share in yet another company called Ingard Oyster Farms . |
| 2 | National Grid plans to put up 400kv lines on 150ft pylons across Cleveland and North Yorkshire from Lackenby on Teesside , to Shipton , near York to take electricity from a new power station on Teesside to the south of England . |
| 3 | The Nationwide Building Society agreed to put up £703,000 at 2 per cent above their normal rates because of the experimental nature of the scheme . |
| 4 | The idea was to persuade 1,000 ‘ rich radicals ’ with incomes of over £12,000 per year ( the Walsh criterion for being rich ) to put up £1,000 each . |
| 5 | I was struggling to complete my doctoral thesis in an icy northern England when my brother Lorne called me from London with the news that Ringo Starr had agreed to put up £2,000 and the post-production costs of our first adventure film . |
| 6 | Len Deighton , an old friend offered to put up £2,000 if I could find three other backers . |
| 7 | Wall Street is sceptical that a link with Mr Pritzker will materialise , leaving UAL to find an equity partner to replace British Airways , which had agreed to put up $750million for a 15 per cent stake in the buyout consortium . |
| 8 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 9 | They will offer package programmes at minimal cost , in the hope of recovering their outlay and , most importantly , providing an inducement for a sponsor to put up £6 million for world-wide exposure . |
| 10 | ‘ Angie had nothing to complain about — anyone would have been glad to put up £100,000 to get in here . |
| 11 | Xionics had an easier birth than most small companies : it managed to persuade BP , its first customer , to put up £80000 toward the cost of developing Xinet . |
| 12 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 13 | To put things into context , if half of the membership were to put up 10p a week into an HCB , they would make a total yearly contribution of £260,000 . |
| 14 | When a Jakarta bureaucrat decided in the early 1980s that Indonesia should develop a steel industry , Mr Liem was ‘ encouraged ’ to put up 40% of the $800m cost of the Krakatau Steel project . |
| 15 | Will he now reconsider his advice that local initiative will solve all these problems , given that he has undermined local initiative in the example quoted earlier about people who have been willing to put up £17 million of locally raised money for a project which was undermined by the Welsh Office ? |