Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want to sit over here mum ? |
| 2 | do you want to sit over here mum ? |
| 3 | Cos the police will want to know from when Simon sold the bike to this other kiddie who had the accident . |
| 4 | If the transactions are found to be lawful and enforceable and interest rates remain high , the council stands to lose at least £69.1 million - the estimated negative value of its portfolio in February . |
| 5 | In the United States , the encyclopaedia was launched early in 1991 at US$399 but the price is expected to fall to about US$299 by the end of the year . |
| 6 | Because brokers ' charges are high for small deals , you will need to invest at least £1000 in each . |
| 7 | A factory might manage a few thousand kinds of parts ; the air force has to cope with over 6m . |
| 8 | In 1991 sales are expected to slip to around 13.5m . |
| 9 | ITV and Scottish Television have a contract for TV coverage , but the project needs to attract at least £15m in sponsorship and advertising of various kinds . |
| 10 | From 1989-90 to 1993-94 , reserves are forecast to increase by just £7m , of which £4m comes from capital revenue ( ie , disposal of assets ) . |
| 11 | Altogether — including the logo design , new stationery ( and , in some cases , new shop fronts ) the cost of the new identity is expected to come to about £600,000 . |
| 12 | Figures are sketchy but all these categories combined appear to total at least 100m , or over 9% of the Chinese population — nearly 20% of the adult population . |
| 13 | The supply from waste/recycled resources is expected to increase to over 70% of regional aggregates consumption by 2011 . |
| 14 | The game currently turns over $3.5 million a week , which is expected to increase to around $8 million a week within two years . |
| 15 | While the Barcode Battler is expected to sell for just £40 , and software comes free , it could add thousands of pounds to the family shopping bill . |
| 16 | Exhibited internationally twenty times , it is expected to sell for around £2.5 million ( $4.25 million ) , unless previously purchased for the nation . |
| 17 | You 'll get little change from £40,000 for the 300SE , the 500SE is expected to sell for around £60,000 while the flagship 600SEL ( the short wheelbase model wo n't be sold in Britain ) is expected to be close to £80,000 — £22,500 more than the rival 750iL BMW . |
| 18 | The first Apple Computer Inc PowerPC systems are expected to sell for under $2,000 — these will be true Macintosh systems running Macintosh applications . |
| 19 | FERRANTI 'S shares return to active trading today after a three-week suspension and are expected to open at around 45p . |
| 20 | The TVT1 decoder is expected to retail for under $300 . |
| 21 | It is found in the rivers of Colombia and Peru , and in the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 130mm . |
| 22 | In the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 13cm . |
| 23 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it expects ‘ considerable improvement in profits in 1993 ’ : it expects the strong order intake seen last year to continue despite a recession and notes that orders for Ericsson 's mobile systems , which grew by 58% in 1992 , are expected to grow by around 60% in the current quarter . |
| 24 | You will also need to use at least part of this milk with your cereal breakfasts . |
| 25 | Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ . |
| 26 | THE cost of the IRA 's 86-hour bombing blitz is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months . |
| 27 | Today is Pentium launch day when the likes of NCR Corp , Unisys Corp , Compaq Computer Corp and some two dozen other companies take the wraps off their first Pentium machines , but there is not much point in their making too much noise about it — Intel Corp expects to ship only about 10,000 Pentium chips to customers through June ; machines are generally expected to start at about $5,000 , but the Wall Street Journal hears that Advanced Logic Research Inc will announce a basic Pentium box for about $3,000 ; Compaq also plans an $18,000 Pentium version of its SystemPro server . |
| 28 | Repairs are expected to cost at least £4.5m and work is due to get under way in the next few weeks . |
| 29 | The depth needs to allow for about 75mm of rammed rubble or ballast and about 18mm of mortar , plus slab thickness |
| 30 | Since such low rates are failing to revive growth , some economists reckon that the yield on long-dated government bonds would need to drop to around 7% to have much effect . |