Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The R4000a should give 30% to 50% better performance than its predecessor , he said . |
| 2 | Two of the issues which stand out most clearly from staff responses to the assessment are ( i ) that we must provide training in the health and safety aspects of workstation use , and ( ii ) that we must provide information to staff on the procedures for eyesight testing for those staff who spend long periods in front of display screens . |
| 3 | RACE AND COLOUR Newspapers should not publish material likely to encourage discrimination on grounds of race or colour , and should avoid references to people 's race or colour in prejudicial or pejorative contexts unless they are directly relevant to the story . |
| 4 | ( ii ) Teaching about language should draw attention to people 's sensitivity to quite small features of pronunciation that differentiate the speech of one area from others ; and to any grammatical differences between the speech of the area and spoken Standard English , eg in verb forms , pronoun use , prepositions . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , you think you should wish luck to people who merely feed lines , do you ? |
| 6 | Volume users should pay 30% to 40% less than on analogue cellular , lower-volume users will get three times as many minutes for the same price as cellular . |
| 7 | For each of these you should mention responses to people and ideas . |
| 8 | One was finally found in Wales , but the company refused to deal with a record which might cause offence to people on religious grounds . |
| 9 | Individual societies may favour advances to people in salaried jobs , so hourly-paid workers can be discriminated against . |
| 10 | Glen-Gery in the US and the pulp side should turn around this year but David Taylor at UBS Phillips & Drew thinks that by paying interest instead of receiving it the group will make a much-the-same £10m this time , and may cut dividends to 4p . |
| 11 | A wine may have 7% to 14% while whisky must have 40% . |
| 12 | In seeking to interpret the Constitution , the courts may have recourse to works by constitutional experts . |
| 13 | And although turbocharging is proposed , a limiting pop-off valve would restrict power to 400bhp . |
| 14 | Installing a monitoring system in a 135,000 square foot building for 50 to 70 employees would cost $200 to $250 per person . |
| 15 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 16 | One high street retailer , Comet , announced that it would offer refunds to people who bought its own-brand and other manufacturers ' models which failed the Government tests announced on Monday . |
| 17 | Chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forcasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely . |
| 18 | Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 19 | The machines will cost $5m to $30m and the company says that it has already opened talks with some makers of massively parallel computers — observers suggest that Intel Corp and Thinking Machines Corp may be high on the list — according to the New York Times , several major US laboratories have experimented with Cray machines ( Cray-2s presumably ) linked to Thinking Machines kit . |
| 20 | A new landing stage needed in five years will cost £10m and a new ferry boat will cost £8m to £10m the projected life of the existing three boats is five years . |
| 21 | Bread baits on leger tackle will produce chub to 4lb at Clitheroe . |
| 22 | Guiraudios estimated that the number of Minitel terminals installed will reach 8m to 9m within the next four to five years . |
| 23 | Romania 's telecommunications development will require $7,000m to $8,000m in investments , according to a senior Ministry of Communications official quoted by Reuter , which notes that that is despite the fact that it is seeking only a modest 25% phone penetration rate by the year 2005 ; Siemens AG and Alcatel NV had offered credits of more than $85m for switching equipment manufactured in Romania and the country aims to install 500,000 new phone lines , 3,125 miles of fibre optic cable , setting up a private television channel and obtaining between 5,000 and 10,000 mobile phone subscribers over the next three years . |
| 24 | Phyllis Starkey , you 've mentioned earlier that this will cause hardship to people , this huge rent rise of thirty nine per cent . |
| 25 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 26 | ‘ So that Aunt Margaret can sell things to people by writing the prices down , she being dumb . ’ |
| 27 | The company claims it can trim 10% to 15% off the time needed to resolve a customer call or problem . |
| 28 | When necessary , the health and social services can offer help to people to keep their independence with a range of special services including domestic help , delivery of cooked meals , sitters-in and night attendants . |
| 29 | When necessary , the health and social services can offer help to people to keep their independence with a range of special services including domestic help , delivery of cooked meals , sitters-in and night attendants . |