Example sentences of "[n mass] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 56% of this goes on software , 12% on support , 14% on administrative tasks , such as upgrades , and the remaining 18% on operating the machine . |
| 2 | A surge in borrowings from 29% to 55% of shareholders ' funds was largely due to a buying spree during the year when NFC shelled out £75m on 16 businesses . |
| 3 | The pilot maintained the aircraft in the clime attitude and the commander , who was checking the aircraft 's instruments , noticed the RPM on both engines running down very fast , he also observed the engined pressure ratio ( EPR ) , and exhaust gas temperature ( EGT ) instrument readings dropping . |
| 4 | Labour calculated this included a loss of £3.07 for National Insurance payments , £2.31 on MIRAS ( tax relief on interest payments on home loans up to £30,000 ) , £1.87 on married couples ' allowances , £1.03 on VAT on fuel , 43p on single per-son 's income tax , 23p on vehicle excise duty and 63p on excise duties . |
| 5 | Overall , the company will invest $1,600m on new plants and equipment this year , while expanding its US-based manufacturing workforce by about 18% . |
| 6 | Chris Baines , in his excellent report on the tyranny of the car ( October ) , omitted to mention one obvious solution : to reduce the speed limits to 60mph on motorways , 45mph on open roads and 25mph in built-up areas . |
| 7 | Men with £3 — £4 were probably smallholders , but , although £2 attracted the same rate of tax , men at this level tended to overlap with those beneath , their assessments being reduced to £1 on some occasions . |
| 8 | In order to attract foreign investment , the Malaysian government introduced legislation in 1990 , abolishing withholding tax and providing for a basic tax rate of 3% on net profits for certain activities undertaken in Labuan . |
| 9 | That still leaves Swiss banks with a handicap : an indecisive government , still dithering over the reform of a stamp tax of up to 3% on some transactions . |
| 10 | Children under 2 years at the time of the return journey travel for just £15 on all flights . |
| 11 | Another night at some scruffy place full of hooded locals , we spent £15 on similar dishes . |
| 12 | The Safety Commission of the International Air Transport Association , IATA , has recommended a partial ban aboard aircraft on electronic devices such as computer games made by Nintendo Co Ltd , to avoid interference with aircraft systems : it calls for a ban on the use of all passenger-carried electronic devices during taxi , takeoff , initial climb approach and landing in a confidential letter written by the committee and obtained by Reuters . |
| 13 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 14 | It can be seen that when the bookseller allows a library its full 10% on these titles , his profit will be that much smaller . |
| 15 | Or save more than £21 on two years of New Scientist , or over £53 on a three year subscription . |
| 16 | He also used transactions data on MMI futures for the same periods . |
| 17 | Prospective collection of data on general practitioners ' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics between June 1990 and March 1992 and detailed comparison of two time periods : October 1990 to March 1991 ( phase 1 ) and October 1991 to March 1992 ( phase 2 ) . |
| 18 | The Library of Congress Catalog and printed card service , and the weekly , monthly , quarterly , annual and subsequent cumulations of British National Bibliography , plus its own printed card service , derive from this data base , and it is hoped to begin experiments towards the provision of a similar computer store of catalogue data on audio-visual materials in due course from which all manner of useful selected print-outs can be derived . |
| 19 | At the same time , the neighbourhood studies utilize systematic sociolinguistic interviews to obtain comparable data on all members of the social network . |
| 20 | For the remaining children excluded from the analysis because of missing data on other variables the mean values for FEV 1 , FVC , FEF 2 5 — 7 5 , and FEF 7 5 — 8 5 were -0.065 , -0.007 , -0.08 , and -0.043 standard deviation scores respectively compared with 0.024 , 0.014 , 0.018 , and 0.004 standard deviation scores for those included . |
| 21 | Some data on convicted prisoners are available . |
| 22 | The construction of an ephemeris involved processing and evaluating the wide variety of data on planetary positions , choosing a dynamical model for the Solar System , and varying the adjustable parameters to give computed orbits that best fit the observations . |
| 23 | The implication is that scanning systems should not be locked into continuous data on limited sectors of the environment … . |
| 24 | It should also throw up interesting data on regional differences and preferences as each area , including Scotland , will also be surveyed as a distinct entity . |
| 25 | ETSU will be responsible for gathering and analysing data on international projects and devising worldwide distribution of the results to governments , utilities and industry . |
| 26 | Inclusion of data on casual workers might have altered the picture , at least for the service sector . |
| 27 | This might be explained by WIRS s failure to pick up data on casual workers , the form of temporary worker employed in low skill service occupations . |
| 28 | The Oracle7 co-operative-server database has been designed to support SQL query and update transactions that automatically retrieve and modify data on multiple servers , and to enable a group of low-cost servers computers to outperform the largest mainframe , which will not make the thing very popular with IBM Corp , and should offer high reliability because there is no single point of failure . |
| 29 | In 1945 , the Miles Aircraft Company was developing a supersonic experimental aircraft , the M 52 , but lack of basic data on supersonic conditions led to the decision in 1948 not to risk a pilot 's life flying it until more was known about the compressibility of air , or the sound barrier . |
| 30 | The Commission published on June 21 , 1989 , its plans for a new European Environment Agency whose main task would be the accumulation and processing of data on environmental issues . |