Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is all part of nature 's balance , of course , as these small animals get eaten by fish . |
| 2 | Holography … may do to visual image reproduction what lasers will do to data storage and computers have done to data processing … |
| 3 | The island 's isolation and woodsy beauty have made it wildly popular in the past few years ; prices for many single homes have jumped above $300,000 . |
| 4 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 5 | The company is not making a profit forecast , but profits for the 36 weeks to 9 January have grown to £9.79 million . |
| 6 | Earnings per share in the year to 31 January have slumped to 21.75p from 24.87p , and the trust management will have to dip into revenue reserves just to meet the board 's own proposed final dividend of 17p . |
| 7 | Mortgage rates are now at their lowest for 25 years and UK incomes have risen by 50pc since 1987 , although the rate of growth has been considerably slower in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | By contrast disabled people and our organisations have called for staff to be paid proper wages . |
| 9 | Operating margins have increased to 30% or so , putting garbage up with pharmaceuticals in terms of profitability . |
| 10 | Profits in the same period have grown by 11% a year , from $1.5 billion to $4.3 billion . |
| 11 | The resources available for safety have increased from £140 million to about £200 million for the current year , and are likely to continue at at least that level . |
| 12 | Since 1983 , the company 's revenues have climbed from $1.6 billion to $2.5 billion in 1989 , and profits have tripled to $242m . |
| 13 | View from City Road page 27 Tunnel shock : Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium which will operate the twin-rail tunnel when it enters service in June 1993 , announced that costs have risen by £2.2bn to £7bn . |
| 14 | Numbers of senior house officers have risen by 14% in three years — far more than was intended — and , by not substantially reducing the number of registrars , JPAC has failed to keep to its terms of reference . |
| 15 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 16 | In the past 50 years , relative sea levels in Venice have increased by 23cm , largely because of sub-surface layer compaction and sinking as a result of groundwater pumping . |
| 17 | Pre-tax profits for the year to October have climbed from £23.7m to £26.3m , with a lot of the impetus stemming from cost cutting and improved productivity . |
| 18 | The prices of French properties have dropped by 20% to 30% from their peak , but the appreciation of the franc against the pound has added 10% plus to French prices in sterling terms . |
| 19 | why , that 's what I thought , but would you on occasion have dealt with people who wished to buying or considering buying ? |
| 20 | Average annual earnings have risen from £15,686 two years ago to about £18,000 today — the best ratio of earnings to house prices since the early Eighties , the Halifax Building Society claims . |
| 21 | The shareholders in Velcro have received no dividends in 1989 and 1990 , despite the fact that pre-tax earnings have grown from $6.3 million in 1988 to $9.4 million in 1990 , and the company is awash in liquidity with marketable securities as of 30 September 1990 worth slightly less than $50 million . |
| 22 | I am convinced that the one-to-one services whereby perverts phone women at night have led to people going out and committing acts of sexual violence against women . |
| 23 | Although Brazil is wallowing in stagflation , Brazilian exports to its partners have risen from $1.3 billion in 1989 to $1.1 billion in 1992 , while imports were unchanged at $1.2 billion . |
| 24 | Total outstanding loans have fallen from $15.8 billion to $14 billion . |
| 25 | Real wages in Australia have fallen by 5% over the past seven years ; in Britain they have risen by almost 20% . |
| 26 | The feedback currently available indicates that the numbers of women reading engineering have increased to 15% ( from 7.8% in 1982–83 ) , but much more still remains to be done and industry 's most pressing problem in the 1990s will be to attract , recruit and retain the high calibre of technologically literate young people they will need . |
| 27 | ‘ Many people have suffered from sales falling through and from house-buying chains , and some of our vendors feel that now 's as good a time as any to sell . ’ |
| 28 | Operating profits of the Imperial cigarettes to Butterley bricks giant have soared from £955m to £1.07bn for the year to September 1992 , and this year should be just as buoyant . |
| 29 | Profits of the Bisto-to-Mr-Kipling-cakes giant have nose-dived from £150m to just over £92m with big bites taken out of both bread and cakes . |
| 30 | In Britain , the InterCity trains have syphoned off people who would otherwise use cars , and British Rail expects to double passenger mileage between 1988 and 2020 . |