Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we 've heard from people in this programme tonight , most of them start when they 're children or young adolescents |
| 2 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 3 | It could have been exam pressure we 've read about people like that at Oxford University . |
| 4 | The shares plunged 18p to 266p on news that profits have fallen to £91m from £93.7m . |
| 5 | Profits have fallen from £322m for 1990 as the company , which operates textile , cleaning , security , distribution , plant , personnel , catering , joinery and facilities management businesses , rebuilds . |
| 6 | Add the two factors together , and the average mortgage payments of a first-time buyer have fallen from 30% of earnings in 1990 to 12% today — the lowest for more than 20 years ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 7 | Prices have fallen from £700 per drive to under £300 in the past two years and could fall to perhaps £100 , forced down by competition from Asian producers . |
| 8 | Tea prices in London have fallen by 30% from a three-year peak in January . |
| 9 | Real wages in Australia have fallen by 5% over the past seven years ; in Britain they have risen by almost 20% . |
| 10 | Some fear this may have harmed the LME 's reputation , and could drive prices , which have fallen by 50% in two years , still lower . |
| 11 | According to a study commissioned by the owners , the profits of major-league clubs have fallen by 54% since 1989 . |
| 12 | Operating profits of the Imperial cigarettes to Butterley bricks giant have soared from £955m to £1.07bn for the year to September 1992 , and this year should be just as buoyant . |
| 13 | The sum lent by Macrae is not known and reports have varied from £5,000 to £15,000 . |
| 14 | DIOCESAN accounts show that investments have dropped from £4,327,000 at March 31 , 1989 , to £1,851,000 at March 31st this year . |
| 15 | Also , shares in ManU have dropped by 57p on the Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | The prices of French properties have dropped by 20% to 30% from their peak , but the appreciation of the franc against the pound has added 10% plus to French prices in sterling terms . |
| 17 | In the three years since 1983 sixth form numbers have dropped by 13% from 40,055 to 34,961 with a staying on rate of 33% ( as against the national average of 31 |
| 18 | Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname . |
| 19 | Earnings per share in the year to 31 January have slumped to 21.75p from 24.87p , and the trust management will have to dip into revenue reserves just to meet the board 's own proposed final dividend of 17p . |
| 20 | In contrast , investment income has risen to 6pc from 3.5pc , and social-security benefits have risen to 13pc from 8pc . |
| 21 | However , billings have risen to £1.06m. for the year ended 30 June 1987 , reflecting a dramatic recovery . |
| 22 | But the big spend as the group sorts out its core operations has already meant an increase in borrowing which have risen to £21m at the end of September compared with £160m the year before . |
| 23 | GPA Group 's bank debts have risen by £1.1bn since 31 March ; the increase is due to the purchase of aircraft it contracted to buy from manufacturers . |
| 24 | Arrests have risen by 41pc since the introduction of Metro Police . |
| 25 | View from City Road page 27 Tunnel shock : Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium which will operate the twin-rail tunnel when it enters service in June 1993 , announced that costs have risen by £2.2bn to £7bn . |
| 26 | Mortgage rates are now at their lowest for 25 years and UK incomes have risen by 50pc since 1987 , although the rate of growth has been considerably slower in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Numbers of senior house officers have risen by 14% in three years — far more than was intended — and , by not substantially reducing the number of registrars , JPAC has failed to keep to its terms of reference . |
| 28 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 29 | Professional Fees have risen from £10,000 to nearly £42,000 largely because of the need to employ solicitors , surveyors and agents for the move of the Council 's offices to Bedford Row . |
| 30 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |