Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [n mass] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 2 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 3 | It may not be possible to adequately define ‘ damage ’ to the environment , or even to detect it , when the environmental impact of a genetically engineered bacterium may be as undramatic as replacing a naturally occurring species of bacterium . |
| 4 | The Packard Bell Elite 1000 comes with plenty of bundled software and sound support , but it only has 2Mb of RAM |
| 5 | ‘ I will now beg leave to make some observations on the distance of the Veterinary College from the Town — first — because the Society has no rival to dread in an establishment of this nature — secondly — whether the Infirmary is situated a Mile further or nearer it will not prevent people of sense from sending their Horses there — thirdly — the resident pupils being distant from places of dissipation , it will protect their morals and they will employ their time in study . |
| 6 | So you think that as a general rule , museums should not sell works of art ? |
| 7 | The Irish courts have held that a child which was born deformed in consequence of an injury to its mother , caused by the fault of a railway company on whose line she was travelling , could not recover damages ; but the decision turned on the view that the company , not having means of knowledge of its presence , owed no duty towards it . |
| 8 | In the United States , for example they account for 7% of all record sales ( compared with 1% in 1975 ) , thus exceeding sales of jazz and classical music . |
| 9 | We are asking Local Education Authorities not to make sales of school playing fields in future unless there is no evidence of long-term need . |
| 10 | They can also carry on getting credit through a special ‘ debtor-in-possession ’ facility : when Campeau , a highly leveraged Canadian-owned retailer , filed for chapter 11 last year it quickly got $700m of credit , which kept its Federated and Allied stores open for business . |
| 11 | Although he stressed that Sotheby 's had ceased their practice of guaranteeing items in January 1989 Mr Ainslie conceded that the company still owned works of art as a result of this policy . |
| 12 | Good quality cabinets will usually have 70-90mm of polyurethane foamed in situ insulation . |
| 13 | By contrast , capitalists are able to withdraw resources more incrementally , with restricted implications for their own immediate welfare , and they can usually redeploy means of production in other localities , regions or countries if faced with large-scale disruption . |
| 14 | Mantzouranis was arrested on March 2 , 1989 , and charged with illegally handling $2,000,000 of Bank of Crete funds . |
| 15 | The hot weather has also sweetened sales of Shield and Dove soap . |
| 16 | IBM Corp seems to have whipped up as much of a storm around its head with its plunge into digital delivery of music to record stores as Alan Sugar has attracted with his bizarre sacking of Terry Venables as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Plc : IBM 's joint venture with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp has triggered ‘ swift , fierce and almost entirely negative ’ reaction from the music industry , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ IBM and Blockbuster made a major gaffe by issuing announcements without contacting the record companies , ’ said Michael Schulhof , chairman of Sony Corp 's Sony USA ; Warner Music Group talked of arrogance , MCA Music Group said it had begun working on its own electronic distribution system , and even Polygram , 80% owned by Philips Electronics NV , which also has 6% of Blockbuster , described the announcement as premature . |
| 17 | We 've also got £30,000-worth of video sets , worth £75 each . |
| 18 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 19 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 20 | Both are then held to be deficient relative to Marx 's conception of a ‘ mode of production ’ within which differentiation can be understood , made intelligible and ultimately accountable to a materialistically grounded ethics of emancipation rooted in a conception of a ‘ complex ’ totality . |
| 21 | BellSouth Telecommunications also issued $450m of 10-year 6.25% notes non-callable for life , at $99.557% to yield 6.31% via Morgan Stanley & Co Inc as lead manager , and said that it plans to redeem two outstanding bond issues on June 7 . |
| 22 | In the wake of the Clapham Junction crash , the plan also earmarks £250million of capital investment on safety measures , but admits the true cost of improving railway safety will be significantly higher . |
| 23 | Directly after the war a special bureau the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit was set up under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance and charged with the recovery of illegally removed works of art under the German occupation and their subsequent return to their rightful owners . |
| 24 | This enables the labour market model to be estimated in both quarterly form and also provides data of interest in the field . |
| 25 | Taiwan and Singapore have both banned sales of rhinoceros horns and other rhinoceros products . |
| 26 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 27 | Though he has difficulty in writing anything for publication , he is a scrupulous and painstaking examiner , and his own examination papers are carefully pondered , finely drafted works of art . |
| 28 | Its members maintain that Mexico 's current-account deficit — $12.5 billion in 1992 and now approaching 7% of GDP — is unsustainable . |
| 29 | Fabric designs produced at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire have won a Queens Award for Warwick Fabrics , a company which started just 4 years and now sells 70% of output overseas . |
| 30 | His company , Summum , now sells $1m-worth of wine each year . |