Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNIVERSITY administrators who wasted £11.3 million of taxpayers ' money by re-employing more than 200 redundant academics given ‘ golden goodbyes ’ averaging £80,000 each are to be summoned by the Commons public accounts committee to explain their mistakes . |
| 2 | Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community . |
| 3 | The Government have clearly shown during their 12 years in office that , whatever the Opposition may say , one does not spend £2 million of taxpayers ' money every working day with the objective of closing something down . |
| 4 | Times Newspapers Ltd. where the Sunday Times was proposing to publish comment critical of Distillers ' attitude to the settlement of claims in the thalidomide litigation . |
| 5 | If it were true , why am I , as responsible Minister , spending £567 million of taxpayers ' money over the current public expenditure survey round on regional policy ? |
| 6 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 7 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 8 | In summary , this is a massive infrastructure project on which it is proposed to spend £58 million of taxpayers ' money . |
| 9 | Abuse of Market Power — Consultative Document on Possible Legislative Options , considers practices such as companies ' refusal to supply or the driving out of competitors through loss-making pricing , to be anti-competitive . |