Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller firms are avoiding auditing altogether and 40% are operating without insurance cover . |
| 2 | I 've heard since that people can do silly things then . |
| 3 | I think this is why they ca n't sell cos they keep building on and people are going in the newer ones and not buying the ones that are lived in . |
| 4 | Many companies refuse to invest less than £500,000 in any one company , partly because the smaller companies are regarded as higher risk . |
| 5 | If a manufacturer buys in pepperoni to use as part of the topping for this pizza , he does not have to list the ingredients in that pepperoni as long as the pepperoni constitutes less than 25% of the weight of the total pizza . |
| 6 | The front of the buses appeared welded together and people were still trapped inside . |
| 7 | It is not considered that rucksacks designed to carry less than 10kg will benefit from the new hipbelt , but even the modest capacity Hot Series will be more comfortable with the new type of shoulder straps . |
| 8 | I mean obviously if people are frightened to fly the potential market for you is that much greater . |
| 9 | Fundamental science was a casualty of the ‘ period of stagnation ’ — it got less than 9% of Soviet spending on science in 1988 . |
| 10 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |
| 11 | A number of people would have their wages reviewed immediately , and the wage structure would be altered so that people on the lowest wages would get proportionately higher increases . |
| 12 | RISC has so far managed to penetrate less than 2% of the market … |
| 13 | Rain had to be guarded so that people around her did not follow what the call was about . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 15 | Of this the donor receives less than $1,000 and may make as little as $250 . |
| 16 | As most of the SO 2 cloud is converted to sulphate by September , the perturbations of the photochemical balance of O 3 are substantially reduced at this time compared with July ; O 3 production through cycle I now represents less than 10% of the O 3 production in the mid-stratosphere ( Fig. 2 b ) , and oxygen photolysis is reduced only by about 10% in the lower stratosphere ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 17 | This combined number of fewer than 300 audit firms represents less than 3% of the total number registered . |
| 18 | represents less than 60% of the value at risk , we should obtain a full statement from the insured to establish how this has arisen . |
| 19 | IBM is a general partner but has less than 50% . |
| 20 | If the red light starts to flash whilst in operation , the battery has less than 5% life left , and there is no light at all when the battery is completely flat . |
| 21 | The tobacco industry therefore spends about £2 per head on advertising for each person in the province whereas the Agency has less than 70p per head to spend on promoting all aspects of health such as nutrition , alcohol and sexual health . |
| 22 | I think that £10 is not an unreasonable amount for the base subscription , representing less than 20p per week . |
| 23 | Among items reported less than 5% were children , women , AIDS , education , and civil organisations . |
| 24 | Adam , who weighed less than 2lb at birth , survived septicaemia , jaundice and hernia surgery . |
| 25 | Follow-up studies after 4 or more years report less than 50% of cases as recovered , and even ‘ cured ’ patients have not necessarily returned to a normal life , at least as far as their attitudes and behaviour are concerned . |
| 26 | Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics which have a larger share of world dairy production than the EC yet command less than 10pc of the world export posed perhaps the biggest medium term threat . |
| 27 | Mr Davies told the Press Association later that regular flights back from Normandy cost less than £200 , yet Mr Lilley spent £2,000 on each of two urgent chartered flights home to Northolt . |
| 28 | LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence . |
| 29 | DataEase comes in three versions — all of which are supplied on the disks — and you 'll need less than 4Mb of hard disk space to run it . |
| 30 | But the staffing budget is cash limited , and some practices may have to accept less than 70% reimbursement if their application is successful . |