Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The view is gaining ground that , if Ms Campbell does not win more than 40% of the delegates ' votes on the first ballot , Mr Charest will take the crown with the help of Mr Edwards 's backers . |
| 4 | Setting the threshold at £200,000 , which would include all but 1 per cent of taxpayers , would still yield more than £3 billion . |
| 5 | Added sugar was the prime cause and levels of tooth decay , which had fallen from bad to mediocre , could not fall further until people , and especially children , cut back more on sugar , he said . |
| 6 | A large multi-national may do less than 3% of its business with China . |
| 7 | That resentment will grow further when people realise that the Welsh Office has got its sums wrong and that the bills that they pay will be much higher than Welsh Office estimates . |
| 8 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 9 | Deposits can be made by regular savings or by lump sum deposits subject to a maximum of £9,000 over the five year period but you may not deposit more than £3,000 in the first year or £1,800 in any succeeding year . |
| 10 | A conventional , water-cooled Garrett TB03 turbo helps generate more than 100bhp per litre — the highest specific output ever from a Chrysler production engine . |
| 11 | He did , however , stress that ‘ our representatives can not give more than 10% discount ’ . |
| 12 | According to the FT , analysts reckon that Terry 's , which made operating profits of £3.2 million on sales of £69 million in the first half of last year , could fetch more than £200 million . |
| 13 | A food processor costing , say , £48 will not fetch more than £35 on resale . |
| 14 | Service is due to start in Paris this year and in other metropolitan areas next and BellSouth will invest more than $80m in the network , which will cover 60% of the French population . |
| 15 | Plastic card investment : Barclays Bank looks set to tighten its stranglehold on the processing of plastic card transactions and will invest more than £22.5m in the service . |
| 16 | Bookmakers estimate that 15 million people will wager more than £55million on the race , with any thoughts of the current recession being quickly forgotten . |
| 17 | Such major physical impacts are fairly easy to assess , but not enough work has yet been done to assess the effect of visitors on wildlife itself , though it is known that shy species will decline , while common species will often increase , and that fauna both on land and in water will decline faster than flora ( Liddle and Scorgie , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | They reckon that if each machine brought in $192 a day ( a claim the Las Vegas experts call unrealistic ) , and if the owners let the state pocket 90% of it , the state could earn more than $196m a year ; and it could put the money towards education . |
| 19 | They have warned that private developers could agree to destroy ‘ dangerous waste ’ from throughout Europe and claimed that the council could make more than £1m a year if it modernised the Duncrue plant . |
| 20 | This random sample will cover more than 10pc of the population of the inner city area which has been hit by a number of social and economic problems . |
| 21 | In the current economic climate banks will not normally lend more than 50% of the value of invoices and may sometimes only be prepared to lend 20% to 30% . |
| 22 | I would rarely spend less than £200 a night , and often more . |
| 23 | I 'll keep away while deer are culled — for the sake of the deer . |
| 24 | Almost one in six said that they would spend more than £100 , according to the study by market research group Nielsen . |
| 25 | They will spend more than £40 a week on oil — that 's £2,000 a year — but you could spend £3,000 on a modern filter system and that will be paid back in 18 months . ’ |
| 26 | THE GOVERNMENT will spend more than £1bn before the next general election to take the sting out of the poll tax . |
| 27 | Why do some men spend more than £25 an hour just to talk ? |
| 28 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 29 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp now says that it will spend more than $17,200m — that 's what it translates to — a year to connect every home and office in Japan to its fibre-optic Integrated Services Digital Network by the year 2015 ; it started on the network in 1985 . |
| 30 | So the law does acknowledge now that people generate obligations to certain relatives during their lifetime , and that these should he honoured after their death . |