Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [prep] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the freezer at Tesco , 4lb packs of frozen petit pois are reduced by 80p to £1.69 and 2lb packs of frozen pommes noisettes are 65p , from £1.15 . |
| 2 | The value of the deal is estimated at £12m to £16m ; the company , which employs about 100 people and was founded in 1984 , made its fortune with the Lemmings series of games , and saw sales rise nearly 40% to £6.8m in the year to July 1992 , and is forecasting £1.5m pro fit on £12m sales this fiscal year . |
| 3 | In Mr. Harper 's case , less than two years ago , his rent was doubled from £12,000 to £24,000 . |
| 4 | Corporate overheads in the first half were cut from $8m to $7.7m , and total operating income rose from $13.3m to £16.2m . |
| 5 | DRS/NX version 7 for iAPX-86 is priced from $500 to $1,600 . |
| 6 | The average cost of a Bryant home was cut from £90,000 to £86,000 last year . |
| 7 | In the experiment , a light of adequate brightness was placed at 85° to the left of the vertical in the hive . |
| 8 | To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced . |
| 9 | THE interest rate for Save & Prosper credit card holders with Robert Fleming who pay an annual fee is being cut from 1.69% to 1.65% a mont from December 1 , but the annual fee is upped from £8 to £10 from Janaury 1 . |
| 10 | The unit in question , for what Telekom calls Systems Customers , is part of its Business Customers division , and was established as part of the thorough restructuring Telekom has set in train ; it serves 500 major companies and organisations , and its business is growing at 13% to 14% a year , against less than 5% overall growth from private customers in 1992 . |
| 11 | To sip with your meal , Tesco Spanish red wine is reduced from £2.39 to £1.99 a bottle and a 10-pack of 25cl bottles of French lager from £4.79 to £4.29 . |
| 12 | A licence for PV-Wave is priced from £12,000 to £22,000 depending on CPU configuration . |
| 13 | The income level subject to the 1.45 per cent Medicare payroll tax was increased from $51,300 to $125,000 . |
| 14 | Furthermore , these figures refer to the period before the top rate of income tax was reduced from 60% to 40% , and the ‘ poll tax ’ was introduced . |
| 15 | Between 1979 and 1988 the basic rate of this tax was reduced from 33% to 25% , while the highest rate fell from 80% to 40% . |
| 16 | After the Government announcement the charge was reduced by £140 to £260 . |
| 17 | Losses per share were cut from 137.01p to 83.1p , but there is again no dividend and the shares dipped 0.5p to 7p. — PA |
| 18 | Rance tried to convince Aung San of British goodwill but he replied that when Dorman-Smith had first returned ‘ there was more goodwill being shown by Burmese to the British than ever before ’ . |
| 19 | The total divi is hiked from 13p to 14p with a second interim of 5.5p ( 4.5p ) . |
| 20 | The maximum fine for water pollution was raised from £2,000 to £20,000 , and that of littering from £400 to £1,000 . |
| 21 | On the Stock Exchange the dividend per share was raised from 3.2p to 6p and earnings per share rose from 10.21p to 13.29p . |
| 22 | The share price was chopped from 50p to just 21p following a short , sharp trading statement . |
| 23 | In view of the increasingly high awards being made by the Courts , cover under the Property Owners Liability Section of your policy is increased from £250,000 to £500,000 . |
| 24 | AT Sainsbury 's , English matured cheddar is reduced from £2.25 to £1.99 a lb , a dozen eggs from £1.20 to 99p , a large pot of French set yoghurt from 93p to 75p , 500g of Sunflower margarine from 63p to 49p and a raspberry trifle from 42p to 36p . |
| 25 | Fillet steak is reduced from £7.48 to £6.48 a lb and Scottish salmon tail fillets from £5.39 to £4.39 a lb . |
| 26 | Fresh neck fillet of lamb is reduced by £1 to £2.99 per pound . |
| 27 | Earnings per share climbed from 15.6p to 17.1p and the total dividend is raised from 8.1p to 8.7p after a final of 6p . |
| 28 | The interim dividend is upped from 1.9p to 2.4p . |
| 29 | The interim dividend was raised from 3.75p to 5p . |
| 30 | Earnings per share dipped to 1.92p from 4.79p , but the interim dividend was increased from 0.44p to 0.48p . |