Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporate spies are now spending £50 million a year on eavesdropping devices . |
| 2 | The major , Western industrial nations are today using 17% less energy per unit of economic growth than they were in 1973 . |
| 3 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 4 | ‘ Pubs are here to allow people to meet and enjoy themselves and really get away from outside pressures . |
| 5 | As Steve Bevan , editor of Sales Promotion magazine says : ‘ Companies are now using sales promotion on a more strategic basis , ensuring it ties in with an overall brand strategy . |
| 6 | Three major companies were then producing 83% of American cars : Ford , General Motors and , the most recent , Chrysler . |
| 7 | Because it has followed public opinion in the past , the EPA has always taken the view that governments are there to stop people having to run risks , however small . |
| 8 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 9 | Rajan also points out that French banks are now investing 9% of their budgets on staff training , the Germans 7% and the British only 2% . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friend 's constituents were often paying £2,000 on their houses , whether or not they could afford it , and whether or not they were widows or pensioners . |
| 11 | The spray-painting on the wall came with the big double M in. ‘ 87 — Meltdown in the Market , which started on Wall Street — but some of the bigger houses and the banks were already letting people go . ’ |
| 12 | In Chicago 's Park Forest , where the modest houses cost $17,000 and the gray-flannel , or rather charcoal-suited , inhabitants were typically earning $6,000-$7,000 and were aged between twenty-five and thirty-five , the house agent 's advertisements stressed the feeling of ‘ belonging' : |
| 13 | He went on to refute claims that CAP reform would result in more part time farmers and instead offered the suggestion that present farm policies were already driving people off the land . |
| 14 | In the South Korean capital , Seoul , TRAFFIC found that 85 per cent of clinics were now selling rhino horn , compared to 51 per cent in 1987 . |
| 15 | In response , the guardians pointed out that for the previous thirty-four years the infirmary had received patients suffering from the same class of disease as William Joseph C. from the workhouse , in accordance with the arrangement whereby the guardians were currently paying £202 per annum to the infirmary . |
| 16 | Hi-fi officianardos are already advising people not to be too hasty in relinquishing their black vinyl record collections for fear that the CDs that they are replacing them with will fade in sound quality after ten years of use . |
| 17 | If designers , developers and publishers are ever to utilise multimedia to the full , they will need to transform not only their concepts of content and presentation but the means by which their customers participate in the medium . |
| 18 | The police are also urging people who keep money at home to have it banked for safety — they want to make sure that people like phylis do n't lose cash that took years to save in just a few short seconds . |
| 19 | Police are also asking people to be on the lookout for bogus officials following several incidents in the area . |
| 20 | His co-defendant , Frank " Frankie Locs " Locascio , was also sentenced to life imprisonment ; both men were also fined $250,000 . |
| 21 | One folly was so outlandish it never got past the planning stage — others are still fooling people to this day … |
| 22 | The warden of Clarendon and Groveley Forests was likewise allowed £20 a year . |
| 23 | This is quite correct and yet the preferences of green consumers are already impairing sales of poor-world wares like palm oil , coffee and sugar . |
| 24 | In no time we were a mile from either bank … and the daytrippers were thoroughly enjoying themselves.Even one couple who should have been cruising down the Seine were happy with the alternative : |