Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT&T Co said yesterday that it plans to call five long-term debt issues totalling $1,750m for early redemption and expects to use cash reserves and new debt to fund the exercise — with interest rates so low in the US , new debt is cheaper than most old debt ; one-time costs associated with the redemptions are expected to reduce first quarter 1993 earnings by about $0.04 per share but interest savings in subsequent quarters will reduce the full-year impact to less than $0.02 per share . |
| 2 | The record , at present , lies with the turkey : some females have been reported laying fertile eggs ten weeks after their last mating . |
| 3 | One H positive one O H negative gives you the H two O we 've got two lots of that so we 're going to get two H two O. |
| 4 | Angolan radio announced on April 18 that agreement had been reached on unification of the two military forces , and Portuguese media reported on April 19 that it had been agreed to hold free elections 18 months after a ceasefire was signed . |
| 5 | A number of possible causes have been advanced to explain stratospheric O 3 reductions following large volcanic eruptions ( although these may not all apply to the tropics ) . |
| 6 | He concluded his examination by turning to me suddenly and saying : ‘ I feel you are going to write this book one day . ’ |
| 7 | After all , we will be trying to sell each unit fifty times over rather than just once , as with the normal holiday home . |
| 8 | You 'll be ordered to pay eight pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs . |
| 9 | Airlines have been asked to check new Boeing 737s after an alert by the US Federal Aviation Authority that a bolt may have been left off the plane 's forward door during production . |
| 10 | Well over 20,000 people have already been encouraged to invest some £53 million in their own training with the benefit of those loans . |
| 11 | The arms were said to comprise 200 Galil 7.62 mm and 200 Galil 5.56 mm assault rifles , 100 Mini-Uzis , and 250,000 rounds of ammunition . |
| 12 | Patients were randomised to receive either prednisolone 0.75 mg/kg body weight daily for two weeks followed by subsequent reducing doses , or elemental diet ( Vivonex TEN , Norwich Eaton ) as sole treatment for four weeks . |
| 13 | NCR is expected to position Top End 2.0 as protecting current investments in IBM Corp hardware and software , including CICS environments , and easing the transition from legacy systems . |
| 14 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is expected to be able to produce up to 600,000 Am486 chips this year , and it could produce some 4m — where Intel Corp is expected to produce some 26m 80486 chips this year and another 31m of the things in 1994 . |
| 15 | But Edwards , who was prepared to accept £10 million from Knighton , is believed to want nearer £30 million now . |
| 16 | They fear the deterioration of the value of the pound against the dollar may mean Mr Outhwaite is poised to demand another £60 million in cash from them — cash calls totalling £168 million have already been paid . |
| 17 | Pulse oximetry using the Ohmeda system was shown to produce valid SaO 2 readings even in highly jaundiced patients although SaO 2 readings obtained were approximately 1% below those of invasive arterial blood gas analysis . |
| 18 | The gulf which had opened up between them was apparent from the weights for the Gallaher Gold Cup : Arkle was set to carry twelve stone seven pounds , Mill House eleven stone five pounds , a difference of sixteen pounds . |