Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [n mass] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 40-strong group who had travelled almost 200 miles started loading bags of cockles , which can fetch up to £12 a time , on to a lorry . |
| 2 | The 40-strong group started loading bags of cockles , which can fetch up to £12 a time , on to a lorry . |
| 3 | Under the Payroll Giving Scheme , employees can now contribute up to £50 a month tax-free . |
| 4 | For example , on completing the examinations , a new Fellow can expect upwards of £25,000 a year in Central London which could rapidly increase to £40,000 a year or more . |
| 5 | You can withdraw up to £50 a day as long as you have enough money in your account . |
| 6 | You can withdraw up to £50 a day from any of these machines with Route Seventeen card . |
| 7 | A 2 per cent discount for cash would work out at £400 a year but then there is the embarrassment of haggling in front of clients . ’ |
| 8 | For instance , you may find that a conference for seventy people in a smallish London hotel will work out at £30 a head per day . |
| 9 | To provide the cash equivalent , ( assuming an average of £50 per child per week ) would work out at £215,377 a year . |
| 10 | In former ages we us 'd to give , So that our work-folk like farmers did live ; But the times are altered , we will make them know All we can for to bring them under our bow ; We will make them work hard for sixpence a day , Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay . |
| 11 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 12 | Tough action by police and customs in Britain and on the continent has smashed some of the biggest illicit labs , which can earn up to £250,000 a day . |
| 13 | All good fun , and I do n't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that an All Black can now earn up to £45,000 a year without sacrificing his status as an amateur . |
| 14 | Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced . |
| 15 | The company warns that it can cost up to £75 a day to hire a replacement car and if your own vehicle has to be transported home the bill is likely to be about £400 . |
| 16 | When you are at home , you can draw up to £200 a day at Midland cash machines , provided you have sufficient funds in your account . |
| 17 | IT IS disgraceful that Euro MPs can draw up to £40,000 a year in expenses . |
| 18 | For backing superstar acts such as Sting and Dire Straits , musicians can command up to £7,000 a week . |
| 19 | But separated it can command up to £400 a ton . |
| 20 | Borrowers of £100,000 can pay up to £1,000 a year over the odds if they chose the wrong lender five years ago . |
| 21 | Even if he worked a 40hour week , his £3-an-hour wages would only add up to £6,240 a year . |
| 22 | The results make startling reading — you can save up to £1,000 a year on a £100,000 loan , simply by choosing the right lender . |
| 23 | By shuffling the duties of the remaining officers the ruling Liberal Democrats claim that they will save up to £29,000 a year on the council 's wages bill . |
| 24 | An average family of 4 can save up to £80 a year * thanks to full Economy 7 water heating using less than half price electricity . |
| 25 | HOW many readers are aware of the fact that they can save up to £20 a month for five years which , if left untouched , will attract an interest bonus equivalent to 14 months ' savings ? |
| 26 | However you like to take a bath , if you use electricity to heat your water , you can save up to £70 a year — with Total Water Heating . |
| 27 | Under the EC strategy , an energy tax would rise gradually to $10 a barrel by the year 2000 . |