Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [num] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that not all of it has gone into cricket , but as we know that the Prime Minister , the chairman of the foundation and at least two of the trustees are cricket fanatics , we can expect that perhaps £5 million has been granted to cricket . |
| 2 | While one could make the same use of filters for waveband selection , only Band 7 has been used , since this is the one of greatest interest for the current application . |
| 3 | By September 1989 , however , only £44 million had been pledged by industrial sponsors , and since this £44 million can be offset against tax , industry 's share is actually £26.4 million ; the Treasury has committed £140 million . |
| 4 | At present , only $33 million has been allocated |
| 5 | In comparison only £150 million has been spent on renewables since the 1970s . |
| 6 | Western governments and lending institutions launched a new environmental action programme for Eastern Europe in April , but so far only US$30 million has been pledged . |
| 7 | At a time when the national income was little more than £2 billion a coal production loss of nearly £100 million and a total loss of nearly £250 million had been incurred . |
| 8 | Nearly £5 billion has been put up by 2.2 million private investors chasing water shares , it was confirmed , making the sale one of the most popular in the Government 's privatisation programme . |
| 9 | By the end of the colleges ' last school year on 31 August , nearly £19 million had been contributed to city technology colleges by the private sector . |
| 10 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 11 | So far £1 million has been paid out on the basis of need . |
| 12 | Of £50 million that the government then made available to encourage mining companies , only about £10 million had been taken up by the middle of last year ( see above ) . |
| 13 | So far module 2 has been realized . |
| 14 | Land reclamation covering 600 acres and costing about £6 million has been completed . |
| 15 | So far £9.5 million has been paid out over the crash in December four years ago , which killed 35 people . |
| 16 | Thus in 1988 the Tanzanian Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee reported that about $5 million had been taken in 1987 in the form of ‘ outright theft ’ from parastatal companies . |
| 17 | An estimate of around £3 million has been given . |
| 18 | Grants worth around £12 million have been awarded to voluntary and arts organisations this year by the Regional Council . |
| 19 | Almost $700 million had been invested over seven years in such things as home insulation , efficient lighting systems and triple glazing , resulting in a saving of 220 HW of electricity , about the output of a small power station . |
| 20 | By the end of last year , almost £300 million had been allocated under the scheme to more than 7000 companies . |
| 21 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 22 | Well over £2 billion has been invested in such assets since the stock market collapse in October 1987 . |
| 23 | Will he confirm that over £130 million has been invested in the coal industry in Wales since 1985 , and that our record compares favourably with that of the Labour party which , during its last two terms in office , closed a total of 56 pits in the Principality ? |
| 24 | Of Britain 's £700 million share , just over £140 million has been repaid from sales of the A320 , with the A330 and A340 about to go into production . |