Example sentences of "[noun sg] spend on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought of all the ingenuity and hard Scottish toil spent on the line 's construction being deliberately discarded by a bunch of greedy , sly , ignorant English Conservatives in London that nobody up here voted for makes my rage barely containable . |
| 2 | Several weapons systems received an increased budget allocation , however , including research spending on the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) which was to increase by 22 per cent to $4,650 million , almost all of which would be used to investigate the possible deployment of small , space-based missile interceptors known as " Brilliant Pebbles " . |
| 3 | And how much have Hunslet RLFC , or the council spent on the ground ? |
| 4 | Attlee chided them for ignoring any notion of what the country could afford in suggesting armed forces levels , and for suggesting that cutting spending on the armed forces to £700 million would virtually immobilize them . |
| 5 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the percentage of gross domestic product spent on the national health service in 1991-92 ; what it will be in 1992-93 ; and what it was in 1978-79 . |
| 7 | Mr Stewart said no other hospital services would suffer as a result of cash spent on the scanner operation . |
| 8 | The next day , after the thirty-third night spent on the exitless side of a bed that was shoved up against a wall and that also housed a physiotherapist called Daphne , an air hostess called Olga , and Olga 's dopey Teddy bear , I got out of the bottom of the bed unheard and thought , No . |
| 9 | We actually believe that the people of would prefer prefer their money spending on the environment and front end services . |
| 10 | We actually believe that the people of would prefer prefer their money spending on the environment and front end services . |
| 11 | In December 1989 Kececiler 's faction persuaded the government to increase budget spending on the Religious Affairs Department by almost 240 per cent . |
| 12 | The capital fund remained at £113 and again there had been money spent on the course ‘ several new tees ; several altered and new bunkers ; green treatments and alterations ’ . |
| 13 | Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques . |
| 14 | Unless proper punishments are handed out , all the money spent on the ads is wasted . |
| 15 | It was claimed that money spent on the NHS between 1979 and 1987 had increased in real terms by a third , that more patients were receiving treatment than ever before and that the numbers of doctors , dentists and nurses had increased substantially . |
| 16 | He argued that the money spent on the national curriculum would have been far better spent on circulating information about books and encouraging teachers to use them . |
| 17 | On the economic and social side , it has been argued , that the money spent on the military might well have been spent more effectively elsewhere . |
| 18 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |
| 19 | I assure him that the money spent on the health reforms will lead to greater efficiencies and savings — its purpose is to improve patient care and to increase the number of patients treated — and it is extra to the maintenance programme . |
| 20 | This is bad for everyone ; the local authority complains that their money spent on the facility has been wasted , and motorists complain because they still have to get round the cyclists . |
| 21 | The large sums of money spent on the maltings have enabled manufacturing cost increases to be held well below inflation . |
| 22 | Friends of the Earth , however , has claimed that these figures are artificially inflated as money spent on the cleaner gas programme needed to be spent anyway . |
| 23 | We also want to see more money spent on the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme , with all houses in poor physical condition upgraded to a minimum standard . ’ |
| 24 | I want every possible penny spent on the national health service , they do n't want to be thought like Attila the Hun , yeah well , something like that |
| 25 | In the schools in his survey , 22 hours a week were devoted to the 3Rs , two hours a week spent on the creative arts and three hours a week given over to other studies . |
| 26 | Clearly , there is no possibility of any government achieving this level of expenditure which equals the total spent on the whole of social security and is over double the amount devoted to the NHS and the personal social services . |
| 27 | This book chronicles a period of intermittent family life spent on the Hebridean island of Scarp , mostly during the 1970s . |
| 28 | This book chronicles a period of intermittent family life spent on the Hebridean island of Scarp , mostly during the 1970s . |
| 29 | The cost saving in the preventative work , er , fall falls later on in the system , and that might not even accrue back to local government , and that 's the problem and I think if there was some specific erm , government grants that enabled local authorities to really get to grips with the preventative elements and could should that , that reduced overall government spending on the other end , on the impact end , I mean , I think we would be , we would be sort of making very much headway , but there does n't seem to be that specific initiative at this particular stage . |
| 30 | Advertising was directed to restricting peak sales , and capital spending on the building of new shops was limited by the shortages of building materials . |