Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Under this settlement , subject to approval by the courts in the UK , Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands and by 70 per cent of the creditors involved , those shareholders — the Ruler and authorities of Abu Dhabi — would ( i ) make a payment of $1,700 million ( adjustable up or down by $500 million ) to make possible a return to creditors of between 30 and 40 per cent ; and ( ii ) assume responsibility for certain liabilities of BCCI branches in the United Arab Emirates .
2 But for more details of how Dolphin can make your bathroom beautiful , and to qualify for our fabulous free Power Shower or up to £250 trade-in-discount , ask for our free Home Design Service now .
3 Open Advantage Unix for SAA is available from Burgess Hill , Sussex-based Accent Computers Ltd in the UK at £500 for a single user version , or up to £2,950 for support for up to 254 SNA sessions .
4 Open Advantage Unix for SAA is available from Burgess Hill , Sussex-based Accent Computers Ltd in the UK at £500 for a single user version , or up to £2,950 for support for up to 254 SNA sessions .
5 Firms in the defence support field have been briefed by the Ministry of Defence that up to £1.2 billion of contracts for jobs currently run by the armed forces will be offered to civilian firms from April .
6 Therefore it might be expected that up to 20% of winters will produce Arctic ozone holes for doubled CO 2 conditions .
7 It suggested that up to 20% of the school population might have such needs at some time in their school career ( previously around 2% of children had been legally classed as ‘ handicapped ’ ) .
8 In fact several recent studies have shown that up to 15% of defective items have passed unnoticed in a 100% inspection .
9 I estimate that up to £500,000 worth of crops were saved . ’
10 Lost bytes : Computer experts IBM have urged businesses to increase their back-up facilities after a survey commissioned by them suggests that up to £1.5bn a year is lost through computer breaches and damage to computer systems .
11 And they warn that up to £12m may soon have to be invested in major work .
12 The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period .
13 The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period .
14 Noticing that up to 80% of its workstation users have eschewed the use of complex and expensive configuration management tools in favour of basic Unix utilities such as SCCS ( source code control system ) , SunPro says Teamware is designed to bridge the gap between the two extremes .
15 You will see that up to max.flash the image will look much the same as using the techniques described for pre-flash , establishing more mid and highlight tones .
16 The Northern understands that up to £12,500 per pylon compensation is being offered in talks between the company and people who own land along the route .
17 ‘ This means that up to 50pc of the total running costs could be funded through the European Regional Development Fund , ’ Dr Evans writes .
18 He said : ‘ It is totally wrong to suggest that up to 90pc of all equipment in special baby care units is provided by charity .
19 7.1.3 Changes in the taper arrangements for housing benefit which mean that up to 85% of income above the Income Support Level will be set against Housing Benefit entitlement .
20 Dublin had feared that up to £6 billion in EC aid could be lost if pro-life campaigners turned the forthcoming referendum seeking approval for the Maastricht Treaty into a plebiscite on abortion .
21 Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care .
22 In Bombay alone , it is estimated that up to $10 million a year may change hands as agents like Selvam match up impoverished donors , willing to exchange a kidney for cash , with wealthy patients who can not obtain one by any other means .
23 Mr Pickard says that up to £6.3m of special factors depressed profits .
24 ‘ The main differences between the two styles of cuisine is in the way the Chinese blend ingredients , how they introduce colour into the food , and that up to 90% of the work is done prior to cooking . ’
25 The World Bank has estimated that up to $8 bil per annum is required to be invested in the agricultural sector of LDCs .
26 The Times 12.1.90 reported that public health labs have found that up to 60% of all uncooked chickens in shops are contaminated by Salmonella and Listeria .
27 Lewis at his meeting with Hall on 4th August agreed that up to £5,000 could be spent on premiums , and Hall in his letter to Hunt on 21st August at first suggested fifteen premiums , five for each design , with the offices treated equally .
28 Government estimates show that up to 45% of electricity demand could be met from wind power .
29 He reckons that up to 70% of Destiny originally featured in the modularised Unix System V.3 implementation that was developed by Convergent Technology for the ill-fated Unix PC which it manufactured under an OEM agreement for AT&T .
30 For Antarctic waters El-Sayed and Weber ( 1986 ) reported that up to 70% of chlorophyll a in the water column was contained in particles smaller than l um .
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