Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yorkshire club are over £1m in debt . |
| 2 | As most Cardiff property developers know , in the docklands the average annual rent is about £14.50 per sq ft , while it is under £10 in Merthyr . |
| 3 | Near the burning oil fields its effects are marked : the temperature has fallen by 10–20 degreesC ( 18–36 degreesF ) , the light is only 1% of normal . |
| 4 | The price the capitalist pays for labour is still only £10 per day but the value of commodities produced by labour is now £20 per day . |
| 5 | The French figure is up 13% to 1,751 . |
| 6 | Today 's legislation does not require the use of catalysts and so the figure is around 30% of diesel car sales in Europe . |
| 7 | The cost of simply keeping the Falklands going is approximately £20,000 per person per year ( compared with Britain , where the figure is about £4,500 per person ) . |
| 8 | Based on a survey of Brides And Setting Up Home readers , the average cost of a wedding is now £6,344 without the honeymoon . |
| 9 | For the year ending September 30 , UK turnover was up 14% to £122m . |
| 10 | In the six months to December turnover was down £3m to £38m with pre-tax profits £1.4m lower at £3.7m . |
| 11 | Turnover was down 50% from the $47.3m reported for the fourth quarter to December 31 , with product revenue down 24% from a year ago at $27.8m , and technology revenue dwindled to just $2.5m from $16.2m a year ago . |
| 12 | Turnover was down 8% at $59.8m . |
| 13 | Data General Corp is finding the transition to open systems at a time of recession extremely painful with a second quarter loss of $55m after a $48m charge for another 1,000 lay-offs : turnover was down 14% at $274m , in part because the sale of the Japanese subsidiary cut volume by $19m ; the company blamed the disappointing results on competitive pricing pressures , which have cut profits , as well as the weak worldwide economy ; the company says it continues to be very cautious about the remainder of 1992 ; AViiON sales continue to grow , but ‘ we are not satisfied with overall revenues , ’ the company declared Electronic Data Systems Corp says its graphical design system now supports Hewlett-Packard 's series 700 workstations : first deliveries are scheduled for May . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s total lending to industry was around 35% of GDP in the UK , 36% in France and 43% in West Germany . |
| 15 | At first , they claimed that the only items missing from the murder scene were about £400 in cash and two car-tyre pumps . |
| 16 | yeah I , not so , yeah well I suppose so , it 'll be nice though , it should be a good laugh being how people in the back garden talking and the lights in the back garden |
| 17 | The running cost of a cardiac rehabilitation session is only £4-£15 per patient . |
| 18 | For hospital services the Medicare benefit is only 75% of the schedule fee , but patients can insure privately to cover the gap between benefit and fee . |
| 19 | The current average cost of an afternoon course organised by the Institute is approximately £80 plus VAT . |
| 20 | Maximum vasoconstriction following sumatriptan is only 21% of that seen with 5HT ( serotonin ) . |
| 21 | The compiler is reportedly 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler . |
| 22 | Who needs wheel spats that collect debris and make it difficult to maintain the brakes , particularly when the engine is only 160hp in an airframe capable of taking 250 ? |
| 23 | Attendance for the show 's 25 February to 1 March run was up 27% over last year . |
| 24 | Thomson Travel 's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down £10.7million to £53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales . |
| 25 | Thomson Travel 's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down £10.7million to £53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales . |
| 26 | Plant and machinery , for example , was up 12% to £3bn and computers and other office equipment was up 11% to £2.5bn . |
| 27 | We noted in Chapter 13 that consumption was around 50% of total final expenditure ( TFE ) in 1991 . |
| 28 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 29 | However , a zero correlation is unlikely and , if the correlation between the spot and futures prices is 0.8 ( ) , then the variance of the basis is only 40% of that of either the spot or futures prices , that is , ( ) . |
| 30 | The fee is about £300 plus VAT excluding transport costs — or they can re-enamel the bath in situ . |