Example sentences of "[num] [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £350 million needs to be spent by the Council by the year 2000 to ensure that it meets its statutory responsibilities — this is £165 million , or 90% more than the level of investment allocation likely to be approved by the Scottish Office in this period . |
| 2 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 3 | George Jones has quoted from The Times of 1880 to show that it existed before the creation of the present local authorities ( Jones 1969 : 150 ) . |
| 4 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 5 | On July 4 Defence Minister Moshe Arens told a visiting group from the Zionist Organization of America ( ZOA ) that Israel had asked the USA to increase its annual military grant by US$700 million to US$2,500 million to ensure that it maintained a " qualitative advantage " over its Arab neighbours . |
| 6 | CYPRESS : 400 TO GO AS IT CLOSES SAN JOSE WAFER FAB |