Example sentences of "a [n mass] [vb base] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I RECENTLY used a £20 note to pay a £12.12 bill at my bank . |
| 2 | THE LENGTHY battle for control of New York 's cellular telephone franchise took an unexpected turn yesterday as McCaw Cellular announced a $1.9bn deal to acquire the half stake owned by the Metromedia group . |
| 3 | Soon he was organising a sales force to sell The Famous Grouse whisky in Scotland . |
| 4 | Simultaneously , the US group Combustion Engineering announced a $2billion deal to build a petrochemical plant in Siberia . |
| 5 | The Scottish Office has provided a £120,000 grant to examine a problem which Dr Freeman said has never been been studied systematically anywhere in the world . |
| 6 | Creatures , therefore , are not disconnected from each other , though only fellow members of a species appear to possess the capacity for the fullest understanding of each other . |
| 7 | They refused a request for a £5,000 grant to repair the 70ft church tower in North Ormesby . |
| 8 | The occurrence of oblique waves introduces a distortion into the simple cellular pattern , one longshore current being much stronger than the other where a pair converge to form the rip . |
| 9 | The new service started on 3 October 1988 and was immediately so successful that Mid Glamorgan County Council applied to the Secretary of State for Wales for a £600,000 grant to purchase a Sprinter unit to provide an hourly service . |
| 10 | Duke wrestled with the torrential whitewater , spinning his Papa nui — a sixteen-foot , hundred-and-fourteen-pound semi-hollow Tom Blake board — upside down in an Eskimo roll to let the broken waves pass over him . |