Example sentences of "[verb] a [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In addition to the telephones , you will need a 9V battery and connector also some light-duty twin wire such as ‘ bell ’ wire and some 3 amp ( light-duty ) screw terminal block . |
| 32 | Do you know any milliners who might need a sales assistant ? |
| 33 | This advantage is considerable since the bitter fraction may then be chemically manipulated to produce bitter iso a acids from the a acids and so provide a PIKE product which may be added towards the end of the boil or even afterwards . |
| 34 | SITUATED in prestigious Ludgate House in Blackfriars , Express Newspapers keep going throughout the day , so CCG provide a staff restaurant for breakfast , lunch and evening meals . |
| 35 | But yesterday Dunnes Stores ( Billingham ) made a £1,000 offer and a former Oxford blue promised a £50 cheque to end worries that Richardson 's build-up would be affected after taking ten weeks ' unpaid leave from work . |
| 36 | The period August to December saw sales of £312 million ( $488 million ) , representing a 17% rise measured in sterling on the same period last year , but only 4% in dollars . |
| 37 | The major export destination within the Middle East is the United Arab Emirates , with exports of £6.7 million , representing a 20% increase on the 1989 figure . |
| 38 | The Oakbaraton development at Chew Moor , near Bolton , has a four-bedroom Frensham priced at £119,500 , representing a £5,000 reduction . |
| 39 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 40 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 41 | Top American fight figure Emanuel Steward , the overlord of the Kronk gymnasium in Detroit , which reared Tommy Hearns to fame and fortune , agreed that it would be an ‘ insult ’ for Lewis to accept a $3m offer . |
| 42 | Top American fight figure Emanuel Steward , the overlord of the Kronk gymnasium in Detroit , which reared Tommy Hearns to fame and fortune , agreed that it would be an ‘ insult ’ for Lewis to accept a $3m offer . |
| 43 | If initially money wages and prices were rising at 10% per annum , insiders attempt to reach point B by restricting their money wage claims to , say , 5% per annum , that is , they are willing to accept a 5% cut in real wages . |
| 44 | Alec Evans , 53 , assistant coach on the 1984 Wallaby Grand Slam tour of Britain and Ireland , will decide this weekend whether to accept a £30,000 offer to join Cardiff as director of coaching . |
| 45 | The expedition , they argued , would assist a samurai class demoralized by the loss of their status and , in some cases , of their stipends . |
| 46 | Cheques and postal orders should include a 75p booking fee and all orders must enclose an SAE . |
| 47 | As an introductory offer the first 1,000 brochures to be sent will include a 10% discount voucher . |
| 48 | ANGRY cricket fans could win a £350,000 pay-out after last summer 's rain fiasco in the Edgbaston Test against Pakistan … if they act quickly . |
| 49 | For an information pack , send a 41p SAE to the Information Dept , National Asthma Campaign , Providence House , Providence Place , London N1 0NT . |
| 50 | The latter will buy a 20% stake in C&W 's 'phone arm Mercury for £480m with C&W reciprocating with a £30m investment in their cable and TV interests . |
| 51 | Silicon Graphics will buy a 15% equity stake in Tata Elxsi on undisclosed terms and will license it to manufacture more of its RISC-based servers and graphics workstations in India . |
| 52 | While you can buy a 50p leaflet and walk round the town yourself , looking for the small metal footsteps that have been placed in significant sites , it 's much more rewarding to go with one of the town 's Cadfael experts , like Esme Green . |
| 53 | Network Computing 's cash will buy a 10% stake in NetManage and wins a seat on the board for executive vice-president Judy Estrin . |
| 54 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 55 | Animation Works Interactive is the kind of program that will make you want to go out and buy a Multimedia PC upgrade kit ! . |
| 56 | Japanese trading giant Itochu Corp , formerly C Itoh , will buy a 3% stake in Thai Telephone & Telecommunication Co Ltd from Loxley ( Bangkok ) Ltd for an undisclosed sum ; Loxley currently holds 25% and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has 20% of the company , which has a 25-year concession from the government-owned Telephone Organisation of Thailand to install and run 1m lines outside Bangkok and suburbs . |
| 57 | Lady Hooper 's suggestion was that Jeffrey should buy a £17.60 season ticket for prescriptions . |
| 58 | Labour moderates propose a 56% rate rise , with £5.6m of cuts . |
| 59 | ANTI-FUR trade campaigners launched a £50,000 appeal yesterday after losing a libel case in which it described a mink farm as a ‘ hell hole ’ . |
| 60 | In February 1990 the High Court dismissed a habeus corpus application on behalf of Vincent Cheng , one of the Catholic lay workers detained under the ISA in 1987 accused of being among the ringleaders of the Marxist conspiracy [ see p. 37086 ] . |