Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was estimated that families in Easthall were paying £1 million between them each year heating the sky above Glasgow because as soon as they turned on the heat , it went straight out their windows and walls . |
| 2 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that Pakistan was seeking $500 million from several Western governments to help offset the $1,000 million in additional costs caused by the loss of remittances from Pakistani workers in Kuwait and Iraq and by a rising oil bill . |
| 3 | BRITISH Telecom is putting £3 million a week in Scotland every week , its chairman , Iain Vallance , told the London dinner of Scottish Financial Enterprise last night . |
| 4 | Tomorrow , IBM is launching OS/2 2.0 , the new version of its OS/2 operating software for personal computers . |
| 5 | SunSelect is pricing PC-NFS 4.0 at $4,415 for one user , $90 for an upgrade , but under a special 90-day promotion five seats will run to $25 a seat , 25 seats to $20 a seat and a site license at roughly $13 a seat . |
| 6 | Until the last minute Gould was dealing orders nineteen-to-the-dozen . |
| 7 | LOVELESS Michael Jackson is spending £57 million on a giant wedding chapel in gambling capital Las Vegas . |
| 8 | Browndown Beach 0900 hours almost to the minute , and RFA Sir Percivale is dropping anchor 400 yards offshore . |
| 9 | I am pleased also to tell the House that the United Kingdom is sending £20 million worth of animal feed aid to St. Petersburg so that livestock need not be slaughtered this winter . |
| 10 | Since Philip was challenging Henry II 's right to hold Alice , Brittany and the Vexin it was up to him to take the initiative . |
| 11 | A group headed by Chevron and Conoco is investing £2 billion in developing the difficult Britannia complex ; an Amoco-led consortium is spending £1.5 billion on the Everest and Lomond fields and the new pipeline ; and the new Armada project is provisionally estimated by County NatWest Woodmac to involve investment of almost £800m . |
| 12 | Cellnet is said to be spending £3 million a week improving the cellular phone network , and until recently Racal was spending £2 million a week . |
| 13 | The County Antrim player yesterday defeated N.Bohling from Sweden 4–3 , but at the same time Watson was beating Dale 4–2 on an adjoining table . |
| 14 | BRITAIN is borrowing £100 million a day to keep the nation 's finances alive . |
| 15 | The Opposition are so rattled about it that NALGO is spending £2 million to advertise against it . |
| 16 | France is spending £24 billion on education this year ( 1990 ) . |
| 17 | STEVE COPPELL is tipping £1 million striker Chris Armstrong to lead a Selhurst Park revival . |
| 18 | William H Brown is asking Pounds 85,000 . |
| 19 | Ford is investing £20 million over five years in a market plagued by complaints about the service given by existing providers . |
| 20 | Moreover these were the years when Pound was writing Canto 30 : |
| 21 | BP was spending £45 million a year on sulphur recovery alone . |