Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , dividends are often low or non-existent , and p/es high , when a firm is enjoying or about to enjoy fast growth . |
| 2 | Reports suggest that up to 5,000 of Olivetti 's 46,000 staff could be laid off under the company 's latest restructuring plan for the coming year . |
| 3 | Some estimates suggest that up to 11 per cent of total gas supply in Britain is being lost . |
| 4 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) suggest that by and large men have poorer relationships with their siblings than do women , and that relationships between sisters are more likely to be close and supportive . |
| 5 | The higher success rates obtained for Imperial units suggest that out of school experience may well be an important factor in making the associations required . |
| 6 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 7 | Noticing that up to 80% of its workstation users have eschewed the use of complex and expensive configuration management tools in favour of basic Unix utilities such as SCCS ( source code control system ) , SunPro says Teamware is designed to bridge the gap between the two extremes . |
| 8 | Therefore it might be expected that up to 20% of winters will produce Arctic ozone holes for doubled CO 2 conditions . |
| 9 | It 's just ridiculo I mean , she wants to write that down really I 'm , I |
| 10 | Reports on April 25 had claimed that up to 130 people , mainly Christians , had been killed in riots in Bauchi and other mainly Moslem northern states in places where Shi'ites were demanding the imposition of Moslem law . |
| 11 | It was also claimed that up to 36 Armenians had been killed , and 40 others taken hostage . |
| 12 | It may come as something of a shock to discover that up to 10% of your company 's turnover is actually being diverted to running a second business . |
| 13 | Simone de Beauvoir was convinced that Nizan 's confrontation with the reality of the Soviet experiment had been a profoundly disorientating experience for him : " Nizan was deeply disturbed to discover that out there , as here , everyone died alone and knew it " , she noted . |
| 14 | Almost a quarter of Galway 's manufacturing workforce are being put out of a job and local business leaders say that up to 2,000 more could be made redundant by the ripple effect hitting Digital 's contractors and suppliers . |
| 15 | Some estimates say that up to 9.5 million people are now using some type of dBase , yet the three main variants are not cross-compatible . |
| 16 | But they deny it and say that in well over half the cases they 've taken on , the fathers were paying nothing . |
| 17 | Mary was to find that out as time went on . |
| 18 | He had to find that out from the television when he got home . |
| 19 | How interesting it was , thought Dyson , how extraordinarily intriguing , to find that out of the whole team the only one who was actually turning up trumps was himself . |
| 20 | I found that out when I 'd pressed the bell and no one came . |
| 21 | This year we found that out of 1176 students ( about 10 per cent of the university population ) only 37 were lefthanded ( about 3.1 per cent ) . |
| 22 | Gary , who speaks Spanish , found that out when he played for Barcelona . |
| 23 | The National Fertility Survey found that out of the total of women using contraception , 52.5% had been sterilized . |
| 24 | Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility . |
| 25 | In the United States in 1990 , OCLC conducted a survey among libraries and found that out of their sample of 249 , the proportion using CD-ROM had risen from 6 per cent in 1986 to 66 per cent in 1989 . |
| 26 | In a survey conducted between 1983 and 1987 , the Independent Wildcat Working Group found that out of a group of 42 " wildcats " , only eight were genetically distinct from the domestic cat . |
| 27 | The East German news agency ADN reported that up to 4,000 people had been killed . |
| 28 | For Antarctic waters El-Sayed and Weber ( 1986 ) reported that up to 70% of chlorophyll a in the water column was contained in particles smaller than l um . |
| 29 | The International Herald Tribune of Aug. 15 reported that up to 100 PPP members had been detained , some without charges . |
| 30 | The study concludes that up to 10 per cent of roads are giving way at the edges , requiring what is known as " haunch repairs " . |