Example sentences of "[verb] the [n mass] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The original condition appealed to buyers and it quickly doubled the £8,000-£10,000 pre-sale estimate .
2 He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee .
3 The acknowledged success by all participants in the Bedfordshire scheme led in 1930 to the Carnegie Trust offering to continue the £500 annual grant for a further three-year period to finance a tutor-organiser appointment in another rural area in the District .
4 Young & Rubicam has won the £2.5m Welsh Water account .
5 YOU COULD ALREADY HAVE WON THE £22,500 EXTRA PRIZE .
6 It is as if the 200mph financial economy overtook the 100mph real economy , but , with its slipstream , helped the slowcoach to accelerate .
7 He has struggled since to meet the £3,500 monthly loan repayments and works 15 hours a day with his team of four in Aston , Birmingham .
8 The district council said there was no budget to meet the £900 annual charge for floodlighting the memorials , and someone must accept the cost .
9 A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel .
10 A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel .
11 Melt the 75g/oz unsalted butter in a large frying pan over a moderate heat .
12 Jordan is fighting to regain the £400m annual income by appealing to foreign visitors to provide high quality accommodation .
13 It could even beat the £35,000 top price paid by Linfield to Shelbourne for striker Gary Haylock this summer .
14 He says Technology does not sell Sun Microsystems Inc kit to end users , sells Digital Equipment Corp Unix boxes only on an account-by-account basis and describes the Data General Corp , Groupe Bull SA and Hewlett-Packard Co lines it has on its books as subsidiary ranges .
15 TOTTENHAM Hotspur shareholders are to be asked to cancel £7m of the company 's £8.2m share premium account to eliminate the £6.8m estimated deficit on revenue account which is preventing the payment of dividends .
16 Ferguson will watch the £1 million-rated midfielder or defender next week in Sweden 's clash with Norway .
17 Among the big city banks , only Fuji , which has shed some of its assets , had made the 8% minimum ratio by the end of September 1990 .
18 Addamax , whose security technology was submitted but passed over when OSF selected SecureWare for its OSF/1 operating system , filed the $100m anti-trust suit in April 1991 , also naming Hewlett-Packard and Digital .
19 Doctors unveiled the £16,000 Electric Response Audiometer at Darlington Memorial Hospital this week after a four-year campaign to buy the equipment .
20 LAWRENCE Baker from Southend reckons the £10 annual premium it cost him to add DAS legal expenses insurance to his household policy was the best tenner he ever spent .
21 Scrapping the income ceiling at which employees stop paying the 9% national insurance contribution would have attacked another anomaly .
22 I am buying a £110,000 house with my girlfriend and we plan to take out an endowment to cover the £100,000 mortgaged sum .
23 Cornell will use part of the funding to buy the $3m 64-processor machine , which is to be expanded to 512 CPUs when that configuration becomes available next year .
24 Cornell will use part of the funding to buy the $3m 64-processor machine , which is to be expanded to 512 CPUs when that configuration becomes available next year .
25 PORTADOWN pony international rider Roger McCrea has bought the 148cm European team gold champion pony Dunmacreena Davy , formerly jumped by Alan Griffin of Galway .
26 the guardian , not so much of particular Home Office policies , as of a certain Home Office approach to life which I was convinced had to be broken if future Home Secretaries were to avoid the St. Sebastian-like fate of Brooke and Soskice .
27 Whip the 5tbsp double cream .
28 THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame .
29 After an amazing cross country round yesterday with her agile horse Knockdrin Vina finished in first position with 49 points after the dressage , and is hoping for a clear round today to win the £1,500 national championship and title .
30 That is the point at which the 2 per cent share shop charge equals the £28 standard service minimum .
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