Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physically , two photons with frequency are scattered to form a pair of photons at , so the process is termed four-wave mixing . |
| 2 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp says its procurements from foreign firms in the year ending March 31 are expected to show a 23% increase to $850m , the highest since 1981 . |
| 3 | Half-time figures are expected to show a 4% rise to £123m and a dividend increase to 6.9p . |
| 4 | Booksellers are permitted to give a 10% discount to such libraries , which must first be licensed for this purpose by the Publishers ' Association . |
| 5 | Ultra vires is obviously a restrictive doctrine ( although local authorities are permitted to raise a 2p rate to finance functions not specifically authorized by statute ) . |
| 6 | Capsaicin sensitive afference neurones have previously been reported to play a prt in gastric mucosal protection . |
| 7 | In response the United Kingdom Minister for Overseas Development , Lynda Chalker , cancelled a visit to Nigeria scheduled for October , when she had been expected to announce a £60,000,000 aid package . |
| 8 | ‘ Those who lose their jobs are reckoned to stand a 50pc chance of securing new employment within three months , ’ said Ronnie Scott of the Economic Research Centre . |
| 9 | You never know when you 're going to need a herring ) . |
| 10 | Can I just say to you that that 's already been developed and worked out we 're intending in the next cycle to bring you proposals for a housing strategy , er on social housing , and within that we 're intending to run a series of short seminars for members to give members , all members , not just members of this committee but members of all area committees until everybody has that information background information on things like , social housing , partnerships , housing association grant so that everybody 's in a position to actually er , see and make a decision on what this council wants out of social housing , but all of that will take place in the next cycle Chair . |
| 11 | Developed in this country as an applications generator it has been used to create a data base publishing system of exceptional power . |
| 12 | You are going to need a pair of kitchen scales or letter scales to weigh your food accurately . |
| 13 | In Costa Rica , three species of different genera of ferns were examined and have been found to carry a fauna as rich as that on angiosperms ; damage was just as great . |
| 14 | Lab-Plant has introduced a computer-controlled , electronic stirrer which can be programmed to perform a series of functions automatically and for long periods . |
| 15 | Britain can be expected to use a series of meetings to resist such proposals . |
| 16 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |
| 17 | These estimates will be used to construct a series of co-ordinated departmental , functional and financial budgets , which will also serve as standards for cost control . |
| 18 | Scions provide the chosen fruit or flower , and may be used to change a fruit tree from one variety to another . |
| 19 | The team will collect information on work and life histories of 1,000 inhabitants in Rochdale which will be utilized to examine a series of hypotheses about the causes and direction of current changes in the behaviour and attitudes of people living in Rochdale . |
| 20 | It is a common enough linguistic trick — and one of which neurobiologists are themselves often guilty — to speak as if there were some sort of evolutionary scale or ladder of complexity , along which all the living forms found on earth today can be arrayed to form a series of ‘ more evolved ’ and ‘ less evolved ’ organisms . |
| 21 | On small windows , using fine fabric , as little as 10cm ( 4in ) could be allocated to make a 5cm ( 2in ) pleat and pelmet , but on larger windows allow between 15 and 20cm ( 6 and 8in ) for a 7.5cm ( 3in ) and 10cm ( 4in ) pleat respectively . |
| 22 | They might be asked to match a series of objects with pictures of different periods or different people ( see Figure 2.1 ) |
| 23 | In an informal planting , willows , ferns and rhododendrons can be combined to give a series of displays , changing the mood through the season . |
| 24 | It will make recommendations on whether the National Grid Company should be allowed to build a series of pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton , near York . |
| 25 | Patrick Wintour adds : Motorists in London wanting to take their car into capital should be required to buy a £ 4 a day licence which would also give them access to free public transport in the City , The Liberal Democrats yesterday recommended a £4 a day central London charge , to include free out-of-centre parking and a public transport pass . |
| 26 | ( 4 ) Lattice grid : This is a direct grid that has upper and lower members comparatively close together so that they can be braced to form a series of girders prior to erection . |
| 27 | BERT WAREING has been appointed to lead a 1.75m fund-raising campaign . |
| 28 | Microsoft has been forced to pull a data compression add-on from DOS 6 in the face of a patent infringement lawsuit from Stac , the manufacturer of Stacker 2 . |
| 29 | In March 1986 outside firms were permitted to take a 100% stake in Stock Exchange member firms . |
| 30 | Charlemagne 's managers were told to present a series of accounts each year in writing , and Charles the Bald 's were warned not to have more in their strongboxes than they should . |