Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministry of Defence officials are willing to sell the 1,548-acre site for £300,000 , but the trust has to find nearly £3 million to guarantee the area 's future . |
| 2 | The Government currently has to find about £1bn a week to finance its deficit . |
| 3 | To understand the AL of communicating one has to understand how people relate to each other . |
| 4 | If SunSoft does the port it costs $150,000 , but that 's apparently $150,000 every time it needs to be done even though SunSoft has to change only 5% of the code , an activity that takes only seven to ten days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | National Grid plans to put up 400kv lines on 150ft pylons across Cleveland and North Yorkshire from Lackenby on Teesside , to Shipton , near York to take electricity from a new power station on Teesside to the south of England . |
| 10 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 11 | In our example the man earning £100 per week plans to spend only £70 ; therefore he can save the remainder and purchase a range of financial assets which earn a rate of return . |
| 12 | According to reports in the metals industry the government plans to spend about £100 million over the next six months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Over the next three years the government plans to commit just £3.3 million on this field and to redirect British research towards collaboration with other European countries . |
| 15 | Pubmaster Limited intends to spend around £200,000 converting the Greenside pub into the country 's largest Tap and Spile . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If the Treasury intends to claw back £2.8 billion there will have to be a total saving of over 7 per cent on these pensions and benefits . |
| 18 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |
| 19 | Usually this is a fixed sum which , at the time of writing seems to average around £90 . |
| 20 | The Swan Diplomat Hotel , at Streatley-on-Thames , aims to raise over £25,000 for the WWF Elephant Emergency Appeal and other WWF projects throughout the world . |
| 21 | The issue , offering shareholders one new share , at 148p , for every four held , aims to raise approximately £104 million after expenses . |
| 22 | The event aims to bring together people working in television , students , trainees and those with an interest in the industry . |
| 23 | And with a market capitalisation of about £40m , it hopes to raise approximately £10m by the share placing . |
| 24 | Ray , who suffers from Parkinson 's disease , hopes to collect around £70,000 when his lifetime 's haul goes under the hammer at Christie 's , in Glasgow , later this year . |
| 25 | Gloucestershire hopes to spend nearly £328m in the coming year . |
| 26 | He hopes to make about £100 by picking the apples . |
| 27 | Founded in 1983 , privately-held BBC has 15 employees , claims some 20,000 users of its solutions worldwide and expects to do around $2.5m this year . |
| 28 | Zakrewski confirmed that he did expect the legislation to hurt its Polish acquisition , DHI , which currently expects to turn over $15m in the market this year , and added ‘ The result will be that there will be some preferred companies who have been doing assembly that will be supported , and they will grow and make a huge amount of money by reselling imports , not by assembling ; it 's a scandal . |
| 29 | Owner Dave West says he expects to turn over £3 million this year . |
| 30 | Conversation analysis tries to describe how people take turns , and under what circumstances they overlap turns or pause between them . |