Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index . |
| 2 | In a society which fragments and alienates working people from one another , the process of learning from differences is as difficult as the more intellectual learning from analysis and explanation on the course . |
| 3 | Its biggest benefactor is the property developer Godfrey Bradman , who is believed to have donated £250,000 to the last campaign , and has pledged £65,000 to the embryo Bill campaign . |
| 4 | In the last 12 he 's been here at Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire and has raised £150,000 for charity . |
| 5 | He is also chairman of the polytechnic board of governors and has given £100,000 to the new science school to help develop the study of chemical and biotechnological sciences . |
| 6 | I hope you feel your intervention has been worthwhile and has borne fruit . |
| 7 | He won £144,000 in 1990 , £179,000 in 1991 , £301,000 last season and has collected £200,000 already this year . |
| 8 | OUR daughter is trying to bring up three children on £8,000 a year and has to pay £800 of that in income tax . |
| 9 | he 's married and has to get sperm to get children . |
| 10 | Hyundai , meanwhile , is already partnering Metaflow Technology on the high-performance Thunder Sparc , formerly the abandoned LSI Logic development , Lightning , and has poached staff from Sun , IBM , MIPS , Pyramid Technology and Opus Systems to aid that effort . |
| 11 | Bell Atlantic Corp 's Bell Telephone Co of Pennsylvania is restructuring its debt to reduce its interest charges : it is calling for redemption all its outstanding 8.75% debentures due July 15 2015 and will pay 104.24% of principal plus accrued interest , and has offered $150m of 6.875% debentures due March 15 2003 at $98.90% to yield 6.275% . |
| 12 | But the French-born widow does personally own a chateau believed to be worth £3 million and has found £900,000 for the legal fees of her sons Ian and Kevin . |
| 13 | Laporte also announced yesterday that it has bought Woodtech , an independent supplier of wood treatment plants , and has spent £6.3m buying the speciality building products division of ICI Australia and two other minor operations . |
| 14 | Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years . |
| 15 | He bought 250,000 shares lastMonday at 180p — currently they are 168p — and has spent £500 million in the past 18 months buying mostly retail properties in the provinces . |
| 16 | The county council is facing a serious cash crisis and needs to reduce staff by about 400 to meet a spending cut-back of £12m this financial year . |
| 17 | The winner of that round goes forward to the national final and stands to win £3,000 and the title UK Livewire of 1992 . |
| 18 | It forecasts moving volumes in the low thousands in three years and wants to represent 10% of Opus ’ business . |
| 19 | AT&T says it has plans to expand the service to nine European countries in 1994 and plans to invest $350m over five years to deliver the services but may spend less if it can form ventures . |
| 20 | Prime Computer Inc has now filed for its expected return as a public company — under which it will change its name to Computervision Corp , and intends to offer 15.8m shares at a target price of $18 to $20 , concurrent with an offer of $125m of senior notes due 1999 . |
| 21 | Praising people , if it is done authentically , is a behaviour which is generally welcome and tends to encourage people to do well . |
| 22 | IBM Austin , or at least some faction there , is seriously interested in becoming a system software supplier — a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp and Unix System Labs — and sees remarketing Mach 3 as the way to do it , according to a report out of an OSF Research Institute meeting in Boston the week before last . |
| 23 | It is organised by Messe Düsseldorf and the Association of German Artwork Publishers and aims to offer works at a wide range of prices . |
| 24 | The association has launched a fighting fund and hopes to raise £50,000 to help the nuns establish another business , making Belgian chocolates . |
| 25 | State-controlled telecommunications equipment supplier Italtel SpA will shed 1,000 jobs this year , as part of its four-year restructuring plan and expects to save $22m in labour costs this year as a result ; Italtel is also planning to lay off a total of 16,500 people temporarily for five weeks at a time this year . |
| 26 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc chief Jerry Sanders is not at all phased by Intel Corp 's excoriation and he told the conference his company was off to a good start for another year of record revenues , with a target of $1,650m in 1993 , $2,000m in 1994 and $3,000m by 1997 , and expects to ship 4m Am486 chips in 1994 for a 15% market share . |