Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities and the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive are contributing around £2m to the £20m investment by BR 's Regional Railways division in new rolling stock and track . |
| 2 | When Britons are saving just 6% of their post-tax income , surely everybody agrees that they should be encouraged to do more . |
| 3 | The USS Chemicals company in Ironton , Ohio has been saving around $100,000 in raw-material costs through reducing air emissions by 100,000 lbs per year . |
| 4 | Well yes , but there is a limit , which you hit when you find you are paying about £80 for two , excluding drinks . |
| 5 | ‘ Every time we meet we are having to recognise that evil men are cutting down people from our community . ’ |
| 6 | And Spurs , owned by Amstrad chief Alan Sugar , are giving away £600,000 of discount vouchers towards the cost of dishes at tomorrow 's match with Crystal Palace , worth £20 per fan . |
| 7 | When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy . |
| 8 | Single students sharing a University-controlled flat will be paying approximately £40 per week , exclusive of the cost of heating , lighting , telephone , food etc .. |
| 9 | Single students sharing a University-controlled flat will be paying approximately £40 per week , exclusive of the cost of heating , lighting , telephone and food , etc . |
| 10 | Students with Aficionado tickets for Code C performances will be paying only £4–40 for each performance . |
| 11 | Starting on Monday April 26 , informed sources say DEC will be laying off 40% of its US sales force , 2,500 people . |
| 12 | THE Shamen are shelling out £10,000 in a bid to help victims of the war in Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | Lloyd 's losses , the recession in general , falling agricultural revenue , falling visitor figures and rising maintenance costs are shaking out works of art from Britain 's historic collections . |
| 14 | The English sponsors , Northern Bait Farms , are putting up £5,000 for the event and the Irish organisers have obtained sponsorship from both sides of the border . |
| 15 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 16 | Indeed , once families were earning over £3 per week in the Midlands and the South East , where the car industry and the new consumer industries were developing , they had the prospect of a much improved standard of living and a significant improvement in their life opportunities . |
| 17 | ‘ He said Tottenham were receiving over £1m for Lineker . |
| 18 | Sugar , who with his directors holds a 36% stake in the group , is stumping up £19.5m of his own money for the deal . |
| 19 | Abaar Property and Development is seeking either £75,000 for the freehold disposal of the property , subject to contract , or a leasing arrangement involving an annual charge of £10,000 for 10 years with upward rent reviews every three years . |
| 20 | Compaq Computer Corp will begin direct sales — mail order — of its personal computers on March 22 : the ProLinea , Deskpro and Contura lines and various applications will be sold by phone : it will sell via a toll-free telephone number and through a direct mail campaign aimed at US small business — it is mailing over 2m of its catalogues . |
| 21 | Tobermory today yields Scotch at around £1.72 per litre excluding VAT , while the trade is charging around £2 per litre for large-volume malt fillings . |
| 22 | The company is spending nearly £150m across the company over the next five years to cut down on emissions from its factories . |
| 23 | It is spending almost £30,000 on new play equipment at Grayfields recreation ground , Ward Jackson Park and King Oswy Drive playground . |
| 24 | And the fighter revealed he 's shelling out £20,000 for sparring partners Mike Weaver and Tony Tubbs , both former world champions . |
| 25 | It is often asked when a firm is taking on people for training when a lot of money will be wasted if the trainee does not have what it takes to stay the course . |
| 26 | The Japanese government is putting up 90% of the funds , but 14 private institutions are taking part , including NEC Corp , Hitachi Ltd and Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 27 | Advanced RISC has also won a new shareholder , Nippon Investment & Finance Co of Tokyo , which is putting up £650,000 for an undisclosed stake in the company alongside Acorn Computer Group Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc . |
| 28 | A HARD-UP council is forking out £3,800 on a SHOWER for its boss . |
| 29 | Bristol City are offering about £100,000 for Charlton 's Welsh international striker Andy Jones . |
| 30 | The conspiracy theory of racism makes sense of a particular social reality : it is because the police force , which is supposed to uphold justice and protect ethnic minorities from racist attacks , is itself responsible for so much of the violence and injustice suffered by black communities that it is experienced as being part of the same oppressive system as the gang of white unemployed youth who are beating up people on the street . |