Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subjects of the investigation , the Alexander Howden and PCW frauds , together involved more than $100 million of investors ' money . |
| 2 | UNIVERSITY administrators who wasted £11.3 million of taxpayers ' money by re-employing more than 200 redundant academics given ‘ golden goodbyes ’ averaging £80,000 each are to be summoned by the Commons public accounts committee to explain their mistakes . |
| 3 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 4 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |
| 5 | The Government have clearly shown during their 12 years in office that , whatever the Opposition may say , one does not spend £2 million of taxpayers ' money every working day with the objective of closing something down . |
| 6 | In February 1990 , a firm called Garston Amhurst , a tied agent of Target , the life company sold by TSB to Equity & Law in January at a substantial loss , was shut down by the Securities and Investments Board after £2 million of investors ' money went missing . |
| 7 | The German funding package of $2,100 million , announced in mid-September [ ibid. ] following Baker 's talks with Chancellor Kohl at the latter 's Oggersheim home on Sept. 15-16 , would include over $1,000 million towards forces ' costs , while South Korea 's Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 24 a contribution of $220 million over two years , including $120 million for the forces and $100 million for Turkey , Jordan and Egypt . |
| 8 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 9 | The Confederation of British Industry estimates that the move could add more than £40 billion to employers ' pension costs . |
| 10 | And if a chapter on women and managers warranted the inclusion of an additional female contributor , why did the authors not include a chapter by People First on users ' views ? |
| 11 | The staff available in teachers ' colleges consisted in the main of dignified old gentlemen , veritable repositories of folklore and tradition , ever eager to discuss finer points of language with other scholars , but totally unequipped to teach reading methods . |
| 12 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 13 | Questions could be asked about the failure of the NRA to include in its cost estimate the sum of £6 million of taxpayers ' money that it has already spent promoting the scheme , or it could consider any of the indirect costs arising from the construction of the channel . |
| 14 | Swiss authorities are probing the alleged misappropriation of about £60 million of investors ' funds . |
| 15 | Mr Maclean said the use of £2.3 million of taxpayers ' money in buying Orford Ness seemed a lot , but he was sure that future historians would regard it as money well spent . |
| 16 | If it were true , why am I , as responsible Minister , spending £567 million of taxpayers ' money over the current public expenditure survey round on regional policy ? |
| 17 | Barlow Clowes collapsed in June 1988 putting at risk £190 million of investors ' money . |
| 18 | In summary , this is a massive infrastructure project on which it is proposed to spend £58 million of taxpayers ' money . |