Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [to-vb] [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 | First though , this week is Shelter Week and the Charity which campaigns for the homeless is aiming to raise thirty five thousand pounds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But they need funds , the Dandelion Trust is trying to raise four thousand pounds a year to keep it going . |
| 9 | Oxfam is trying to recall seven thousand potentially deadly necklaces on sale in its shops . |
| 10 | The council is planning to spend ten million pounds more than government guidelines next year . |