Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The county asked to borrow almost £46m for capital projects but had only been allowed to spend £11.64m on school buildings — a cut back of almost 50 per cent on last year 's spending . |
| 2 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 3 | Just as Darwin tried to build up series of small changes as in dog or pigeon-breeding to enormous evolutionary changes , so they sought continuity between unsurprising telepathy and the seeing of phantasms . |
| 4 | ’ ‘ The Oxford International Language College is a non-ideological , non-denominational , profit-making organization dedicated to bring together people from many different cultures and walks of life . |
| 5 | He also pledged to unfreeze nearly $60,000,000 in assets belonging to the three countries which had been seized by the USA in June 1940 . |
| 6 | The Nationwide Building Society agreed to put up £703,000 at 2 per cent above their normal rates because of the experimental nature of the scheme . |
| 7 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 8 | Police managed to seize back £500 from the roadside . |
| 9 | Standard Chartered in London , understood to have around £300million on loan to Mr Bond , declined to comment , although it is understood executives are confident of the asset backing for most of the exposure . |
| 10 | Crossing the line in four hours and three minutes , he managed to raise over £650 for the charity . |
| 11 | Using a different sampling method , the Hetherington study aimed to analyse over 20% of television broadcasts relating to the Commons up till the end of March . |
| 12 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 13 | As Table 11 indicates , a fifth of the sample expected to spend under £500 during 1984/5 , just over another fifth between £500 and £1,500 , just over a quarter between £1,500 and £3,000 and approximately a further quarter over £3,000 . |
| 14 | He ran out of money and had to sell off 40% of his company , and only after six to seven years and scores of design failures did he finally begin to make some money from his enterprise . |
| 15 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 16 | ’ Bassett himself suggested : ‘ If fans had to put forward £100 for police to investigate I am sure the complaints would end . |
| 17 | I had to pay over £1,000 to the Anne Charlton Lodge , Redcar , a home caring for Multiple Sclerosis sufferers , of which I am one . |
| 18 | Barrow was a White Knight — headhunted to fight off a corporate raider — for whom Kennecott had to pay over $1m. in order to match a clause in Barrow 's contract with Exxon which allowed him bonuses in line with the rising price of the company 's stock . |
| 19 | Your correspondent , K. Foster ( ‘ Medical fees a rip-off ’ ) is fortunate that he had to pay only £45 for his annual medical and ECG . |
| 20 | Kenneth Grant , defending , at Wirral magistrates ' court said Philip Cornthwaite , 30 , of Larch Road , Tranmere , was mortified to hear one of the sisters had to pay out £300 for treatment to teeth damaged in the assault . |
| 21 | On the insurance side , Eagle Star had to cough up £10m in Hurricane Andrew claims while Farmers escaped scot-free . |
| 22 | In the past you had to spend around £12 per day . |
| 23 | PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability . |