Example sentences of "to [n mass] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual parcels , except if addressed to Jersey , can weigh up to 30kg and measure up to 1.5m in length , and 3m in length and girth combined . |
| 2 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 3 | They demanded that the military government in Burma free all political prisoners , order troops back to barracks and lift an overnight curfew across the country . |
| 4 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 5 | The market could well generate around $3,000m to $5,000m and grow some 25% to 30% a year . |
| 6 | They cost from $69,000 to $84,000 and run Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix — Windows NT follows later this year . |
| 7 | They cost from $69,000 to $84,000 and run Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix — Windows NT follows later this year . |
| 8 | Last week Cheapside reported the bare bones of Dorling Kindersley 's first set of interim results as a quoted company : sales up 20.2% to £38.6m and pretax profit up 20.8% to £4.2m ( after charging £208,000 of flotation costs ) . |
| 9 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 10 | Among those lowered were Land Securities down 6p to 516p ; Rosehaugh 21p to 534p and Speyhawk 16p to 299p . |
| 11 | It causes problems to people that come to the house . |
| 12 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 13 | It helps sort of talking to people that know the score and that . |
| 14 | I do n't live here , I 'll talk to people that matter , yourselves , and I 'll be guided . |
| 15 | Now I 'm sure you can relate this to people that work with you , or the situation that you yourself have come across , how would you go about , first of all with Barbara , how you can improve the situation ? |
| 16 | No , no , no but they 'll , they 'll have to people that view it |
| 17 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 18 | I 'm happy to profile for someone , it 's important to feedback responses to people and get them back . |
| 19 | You have to be very strong , very offensive not very nice to people and keep on attacking the interviewee . |
| 20 | Heads need to find time to wander into classrooms , parents and toddlers groups , dining halls and playgroups to chat to people and take an interest in what 's going on . |
| 21 | On two occasions , I tried to talk to people and ask for help . |
| 22 | Then , given that the only way of being sure that your ad is communicating what your strategy says it should is to show the ad to people and ask what it tells them , it follows that the best way to write down the strategy is , as far as possible , in the language that consumers will use . |
| 23 | It was the first time that he had seen his father do anything but ride about and talk to people and sail boats and race and jump and swim and lay wagers at horse-fights on feast days and drink . |
| 24 | I think a point that comes over very much is the one about the structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they 're still in the very traditional |
| 25 | But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church |
| 26 | On the telly they just talk to people and find things out . |
| 27 | No , no but I mean , th there 're so many issues that we are trying to get to grips with we have to actually communicate it to people and say well this is |
| 28 | We do n't tend to go up to people and say , I like you , okay ? |
| 29 | Which you could turn you could legitimately turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard for all this support ? |
| 30 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |