Example sentences of "[n mass] and [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the United States announced that it was to cut its 1990 contribution to FAO from $70,000,000 to $18,000,000 and would consider withdrawing from the organization altogether . |
| 2 | Now a perfectly good internal sprinkler system has been developed which for £500,000 could be fitted to an aircraft and would put fires out within 10 seconds . |
| 3 | GPA is the manager of the aircraft and will act as agent for the sales of the aircraft prior to the maturity of the securities issued by ALPS . |
| 4 | Piling on yet more misery for MIPS Computer Systems Inc , the US Navy has decided to drop the R4000 RISC from the list of two mandatory CPUs for the upcoming AX attack aircraft and will ask the Joint Integrated Avionics Working Group joint service panel to follow its lead and eliminate the R4000 from the list , leaving the field clear for the other part , Intel Corp 's 80960 RISC alone , Electronic News reports . |
| 5 | They will not be allocated a seat on the aircraft and must sit on a parent 's lap unless there is an unoccupied seat available . |
| 6 | Oakhurst , California-based Sierra On-Line Inc has cut its staff by about 10% and will take a $900,000 charge to cover the costs ; it warns that fourth quarter losses will be substantially greater than expected , based on current revenue projections at the Sierra Network combined with the lay-off charges . |
| 7 | These factors increase the overall spread in their data and may have allowed a higher correlation between the measures . |
| 8 | These workshops will be for people involved in particular aspects of analysing socio-economic data and will consist of presentations of the different approaches illustrated with the results of the comparative analyses of relevant datasets . |
| 9 | As well as traditional skills , information professionals will have an expanding role in the training of end users , as gatekeepers to electronic media , in quality control of data and will confront much more difficult management issues . |
| 10 | In making this conversion , the software will attempt an intelligent error analysis of the prepared data and will produce an error file which will flag all errors to enable an editor familiar with the program to make the necessary adjustments . |
| 11 | Its rough , hairy , much-branched stems rise to 2ft and will reward you in late summer and early autumn with numerous vivid yellow daisies with blackish central cones , well earning this plant the name black-eyed Susan . |
| 12 | The new unit has a claimed top speed of mph and can reach mph in 12. seconds , which sounds like respectable performance . |
| 13 | She says one was driving at about 70 mph and could have hit her . |
| 14 | Beau Ranger , as expected , has top weight of 12st and must give 24lb to Prize Asset . |
| 15 | This ‘ would enable us to save over $15m and would add to the decision to transfer group headquarters to Bull 's tower at La Defense , generating supplementary savings of $7.5m a year . ’ |
| 16 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 17 | A group of small copper cylindrical powder magazines all sold at around £150-£280 and would appear to be bargains , since they were attractive in their own right and quite uncommon . |
| 18 | Shannon figures it could cost around $10,000 to $12,000 and will debut in June . |
| 19 | IDB Communications Group Inc , the Los Angeles-based international carrier , sold 1.3m shares at $36.50 and will use the $45m net proceeds to reduce long-term debt . |
| 20 | Last week a press release issued jointly by the two departments warned pregnant women of the dangers of Chlamydia psittaci , an organism that infects sheep and can cause pregnant ewes to abort . |
| 21 | For example , migrants from Pakistan — both women and men — appear to retain a strong sense of obligation to give support to all relatives within their biraderi ( sometimes spelled biradari ) which contains a wide range of kin and can represent a network of mutual aid extending across continents ( Anwar , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | It may be that he had quarrelled bitterly with his kin and could see no remedy for his plight . |
| 23 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 24 | Poland is to give Lithuania a donation of $10,000 and will provide technical training for Lithuanian experts . |
| 25 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 26 | The machine will use a 40MHz Cypress Semiconductor Corp Sparc , rated at 28 MIPS and will come with 16 to 32Mb RAM , 250 to 500Mb disk , run Solaris 1.0 operating system until Solaris 2.1 becomes available and support Open Windows version 3 or Motif interfaces , according to US sources . |
| 27 | They grow to 40cm and may live for ten years or more . |
| 28 | A big bream is a very deep-bodied fish and would have to stand almost tail to surface to pick a bait direct from the bottom with its lips , which I know they do when they are in that kind of mood . |
| 29 | They feed on crustaceans , molluscs , aquatic insects , live fish and will scavenge on dead fish . |
| 30 | The Croaking Gourami is an undemanding fish and will tolerate quite poor water conditions as long as the Ph and hardness do n't reach extremes . |