Example sentences of "[vb base] about [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crosby has been given permission to speak to the player by his French club Metz , who want about £175,000 for the unsettled Serb . |
| 2 | These two supply about 1% of Manchester 's needs . |
| 3 | Private cars guzzle about 7% of the world 's commercial ( non-industrial ) energy or 17% of the oil used each year . |
| 4 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | What I do is place two or three handfuls of biscuit into a polythene bag , then mix about 20ml of a favourite bait flavour into half a cup of lukewarm water . |
| 6 | If the puncture is in the middle of a pipe run , cut through it at the puncture site , and remove about 20mm of pipe so you can reconnect the cut ends with a compression fitting . |
| 7 | Our laboratory had been routinely screening with probes cf56a , cf56b , and 9–7 , which cover about 93% of deletions in our population . |
| 8 | They cost about £60 from pro shops , and all good sport and department stores . |
| 9 | Comfort 41 rose-tinted lenses cost about £20 on order from most opticians — add £10 for prescription lenses . |
| 10 | The offer could save schools up to £1,500 a year in exam fees , which currently cost about £15 per entry . |
| 11 | Both subscriptions cost about £800 per year and both have the nasty habit of being so voluminous as to go largely unread . |
| 12 | Bulls stand about 152cm at the withers and weigh an average 1,250kg , and cows 142cm and 900kg . |
| 13 | They import about 80% of their liquid milk , and much of the rest of their food supply . |
| 14 | Cows in recorded British herds average about 5,000kg of milk at 3.64 per cent butterfat but many herds average more than 6,000kg at more than 4 per cent . |
| 15 | Originally an all-purpose type , it was later developed for milk and yields now average about 3,500kg at a little over 4 per cent butterfat . |
| 16 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 17 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 18 | But the model does provide an explanation of why fieldworking anthropologists set about things in the way they do . |
| 19 | But there was no fairy-tale ending as Bob Dwyer 's men set about party-pooping in serious fashion when the experienced half-back combination of Nick Farr-Jones and Michael Lynagh began to click , each scoring a try . |
| 20 | Using the same value for control absorption as above one can estimate that hexamethonium blocked about 85% and lidocaine about 50% of the secretion caused by the bacterium . |
| 21 | If you choose steps , do n't forget when estimating quantities and cost that only three walls are needed , and allow about 1.2m for seven normal-size concrete steps into a shoulder-deep pit , and about 2m overall in front of the car . |
| 22 | — have incomes of £70 or less out of which they pay about £10 to £15 in rent ? |
| 23 | I be they 've never played Turrican or Creatures otherwise they 'd be gobsmacked , especially the console owners who pay about £40 for games that can often be completed in a few hours ! |
| 24 | Goryushkin 's conclusion is that in the process of peasant immigration and colonization , not only did the incoming millions bring about innovations in agricultural methods , animal husbandry , cottage industry and the social customs of the Siberian peasantry , but they themselves were also deeply influenced by the traditional local practices of the old Siberians . |
| 25 | Because training other people 's feelings is not available as a method of reducing reluctance , the manager in a school has to choose which elements of the process of change will in themselves bring about changes of attitude . |
| 26 | The effects of behavioural activity bring about changes in both the physical and the social environment and a shift in the information provided to the perceptual system . |
| 27 | If we can understand the cellular forces that bring about changes in the shape of the embryo then we can begin to ask further questions . |
| 28 | I 'm currently working out measures which can follow up on the policy statement and bring about changes in practice and law . |
| 29 | This is not to deny , of course , that individuals are causal subjects ; they fill various social roles , engage in the work of production , and thereby bring about changes in the social world . |
| 30 | In a similar way , the Keynesians argue that changes in rates of interest ( price ) bring about substitution between various financial assets , including money . |