Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that an increase in general prices of 10% causes a 20% rise in the price of kryptonite futures and only a 5% rise in the price of phlogiston futures , the spread ratio which ensures that Lois is unaffected by the differential response of kryptonite and phlogiston futures prices to changes in the general level of prices is ( F 1 β 1 ) / ( F s β s ) = ( 50 × 2 ) / ( 10 × 0.5 ) = 20 . |
| 2 | He also supervises a media technician who visits the centre twice a week to respond to requests from overseas for technical advice and consultancy . |
| 3 | WBC holder Hodkinson wants a £250,000 purse but Warren , who is McMillan 's promoter , said : ‘ I do n't want to see the big contests slip away because the fighters are too greedy . |
| 4 | On the phone to Richard Bellamy : ‘ The big man wants a £100 note . ’ |
| 5 | If a manager joins a sales team from another department where he or she enjoyed a good reputation , this v–ill go before them and influence the attitude of the team . |
| 6 | Nucleotide sequence comparison of the cDNA exhibits a 90% sequence homology to that of rat ribosomal protein L12 ( 1 ) . |
| 7 | The LR33050 MIPS IFX Integer and Floating-Point Accelerator processor adds a MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3010-compatible floating point accelerator to LSI Logic 's LR33000 Self Embedding processor and is aimed at embedded applications such as X-terminals , colour PostScript printers , robotics , military and avionics applications where power and space constraints are paramount . |
| 8 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 9 | In addition , the exchange has a 1% service charge for deals . |
| 10 | It has a deer park around it and a really pretty church virtually in the back yard . |
| 11 | It has a 110hp Warner and is painted red and white , as are all the replicas except the black and yellow Z. At Oshkosh time it had n't flown , but did so on September 12 , 1991 . |
| 12 | IBM Corp has shipped its first Rios RISC-based SP1 parallel processor , and the machine has gone to Cornell University , New York State , which has a $12.3m grant from the New York State Urban Development Corp for high-performance computing research . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has shipped its first Rios RISC-based SP1 parallel processor , and the machine has gone to Cornell University , New York State , which has a $12.3m grant from the New York State Urban Development Corp for high-performance computing research . |
| 14 | Henley Management College has a 5% share in IMISP , MBA students regularly visit St Petersburg for study and project work . |
| 15 | ASCII has a 5% stake in Informix , with an option to take a further 10% . |
| 16 | An unstruggling character has a 5% chance each hour of being discovered by Bremer . |
| 17 | Socioeconomic status has been considered important because miners were of social class V earlier this century and this class has a 50% excess for gastric cancer compared with the higher social classes . |
| 18 | Allen Commercial Developments , which has a 50% stake in Ebor Estates , has benefitted from the £2.5m sale of an Ebor development in Wakefield . |
| 19 | Smart Tar has a 2lb advantage over Brown Windsor on the running in the SGB but as that was his first outing against three from Brown Windsor and four from Solidasarock , I prefer Smart Tar . |
| 20 | The operation has a 90pc success rate , she said , adding : ‘ It is our only chance . |
| 21 | The plan should at once cut costs and overlapping and research and development efforts , but ICL ( 80% owned by Fujitsu ) and Amdahl ( in which Fujitsu has a 42% stake ) stress that the impetus is ‘ not Fujitsu banging heads together . ’ |
| 22 | The plan should at once cut costs and overlapping and research and development efforts , but ICL ( 80% owned by Fujitsu ) and Amdahl ( in which Fujitsu has a 42% stake ) stress that the impetus is ‘ not Fujitsu banging heads together . ’ |
| 23 | A parent company has a 30% interest in an associated company . |
| 24 | Note in Barclays ' books Shell still has a $10m euro deposit , only the asset composition has changed from a balance at Bank Y to an interbank loan given to Lloyds Bank , London . |
| 25 | But despite the bright start he is still keen to increase his firepower — he has a £400,000 bid in for Charlton striker Robert Lee . |
| 26 | Cash in the bank stands at about £1million , but the company has a £2.6million loan at 10 per cent . |
| 27 | dad 's bike is exactly the same but has a 23in frame and 26in wheels and comes in blue and white . |
| 28 | The shares , where engineer GKN has a 29% stake , jumped 3p to 116p . |
| 29 | BT , which has a 95% share of the British market , and MCI are investing a combined $1 billion to launch a new joint-venture company ; BT will hold a 75% stake in the new firm , MCI the remainder . |
| 30 | In the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea , we are part of a consortium that has a 20% interest in the Azeri field , where about 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil are thought to exist . |