Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is looking to cut another 3,000 jobs from its global payroll of about 35,000 , chairman Bernard Pache said yesterday as he presented the figures for 1992 ( see page six ) . |
| 2 | Er , to expend money on a project over , that is going to last thirty forty years , and expect the people today to pay for it . |
| 3 | We have to understand that it is going to cost many millions of pounds throughout industry in Scotland and we had better get it right . ’ |
| 4 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 5 | See she 's going to see these two that are fairly normal and then she 's going to see number three . |
| 6 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 7 | Yeah the penultimate line is where you take off the existing policies from the total need and that 's what you 're left with the , the guy 's going to need two hundred thousand pounds to provide his wife with about eighteen , nineteen thousand a year . |
| 8 | There are plans to bring in a similar scheme in Oxford — it 's going to cost eighteen million pounds and take five years . |
| 9 | And then when she 's really happy with twelve and with twenty four she 's going to try thirty six all the different sets of one times another to make thirty six . |
| 10 | First though , this week is Shelter Week and the Charity which campaigns for the homeless is aiming to raise thirty five thousand pounds . |
| 11 | He 's getting paid fifteen hundred |
| 12 | The quite excellent British Museum Press , which is managing to produce some twenty scholarly titles this season , from books to accompany exhibitions to detailed descriptions of archaeological digs , has profited from the private entertainment of its former director , Sir David Wilson , to produce a delightful book of funerary inscriptions gathered by him from all over the British Isles and America . |
| 13 | A grass-roots initiative supported by dozens of prominent writers , actors and politicians is trying to collect one million signatures urging more liberal citizenship laws . |
| 14 | But they need funds , the Dandelion Trust is trying to raise four thousand pounds a year to keep it going . |
| 15 | Oxfam is trying to recall seven thousand potentially deadly necklaces on sale in its shops . |
| 16 | He 's hoping to ride two hundred miles in less than eight and a half hours , beating the time set by an eccentric Yorkshireman in 1831 . |
| 17 | The council is planning to spend ten million pounds more than government guidelines next year . |