Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government currently has to find about £1bn a week to finance its deficit . |
| 2 | Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work . |
| 3 | There were also smiles at Colmore Row Branch which stands to earn about £15,000 commission for introducing Royal Scottish to Hills , one of its corporate customers . |
| 4 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 5 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 6 | According to reports in the metals industry the government plans to spend about £100 million over the next six months . |
| 7 | In the United Kingdom , the NHS plans to spend about £36 billion in the calendar year 1993 ( about 15% of public spending , or 5.7% of the gross domestic product ) ; a small percentage of this should be devoted to the conduct of prevention trials and the implementation of worthwhile new preventive medical services . |
| 8 | The Trust intends to spend about £175,000 amalgamating services which are at present split between the Chest Hospital and Machynlleth Corris and District Hospital . |
| 9 | He hopes to make about £100 by picking the apples . |
| 10 | Intel Corp says it expects to spend about $2,500m on capital expenditures and research and development in 1993 , an increase of 25% on estimated 1992 spending of about $2m , saying that the expenditures , unusually high as a percentage of sales even for a high technology company , are needed to address the increasing complexity of microprocessors and the high cost of chip plants ; the company has started paying a dividend , making its shares attractive to a wider range of institutions , and the expectation is that it will tap the market for new funds . |
| 11 | Yet Uganda continues to get about $100m a year in foreign aid . |
| 12 | Except in France , where the idea is still regarded as politically incorrect , and in Germany , where it appears to be politically impossible , floating shares in the phone company is part of fiscal orthodoxy these days , and India proposes to raise about $32m by selling a 16% stake in the New Delhi-based telephone company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd to the public this year to help finance India 's five-year telecommunications development plan , Reuter reports . |
| 13 | The most notorious of these powerful informal alliances is the military industrial complex , but this is only one of many such groupings that a president must accommodate as he seeks to bring about policy change . |
| 14 | RTE claims to reach about 30pc of all homes in the province , mainly in the south and west , giving it 8pc of the total TV audience . |