Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [n mass] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M Delors , President of the European Commission , wants a £14.6 billion increase in the budget over the next five years , a rise which Britain will fight . |
| 2 | Because it only has a 50% fat content , it 's ideal for light lunches , and its firm texture makes it easy to spread on crackers or chunks of crusty bread . |
| 3 | Nissan , Japan 's second-biggest car firm , has a $1.5 billion issue with an exercise price of ¥1,600 . |
| 4 | BRITISH Airways has a £129 introductory fare for its new Heathrow-Leipzig service . |
| 5 | It has a 200Mb hard disk , optional SCSI , and 1.44Mb floppy drive . |
| 6 | AT&T Co has a $30m 10-year contract to install a voice messaging network for the US Internal Revenue Service and other Department of the Treasury agencies : the installation will include nearly 200 Audix Voice Messaging Systems and a number of ATT Definity Communications Systems to improve operating efficiency by providing voice processing capability for up to 150,000 Treasurers . |
| 7 | British Telecommunications Plc has a £5m five-year contract to take over ownership and management of Thorn EMI Plc 's internal UK telephone network : the contract marked the official launch of its Communications Management Service which designs , implements , operates and manages large business communications facilities for companies wanting to put their UK private networks out to facilities management . |
| 8 | The company chief , who also has a £1 million manor house at Seend , Wilts , took the microphone to say : ‘ I had to file for bankruptcy yesterday . |
| 9 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 10 | The company say it has a 40% worldwide market share with 300 companies using its stuff . |
| 11 | The Fidelity Share Service has a £25 minimum commission with a £50 maximum up to £20,000 . |
| 12 | Even after his £880 million purchase of British Sugar last year , the company still has a £300 million cash pile . |
| 13 | It has a 38kW gas-fuelled unit from Combined Power Systems which is achieving net savings of £2,700 on energy bills with an annual gross electricity cost reduction of 61% . |
| 14 | It runs at 20MHz , has a 20Mb internal drive and 4Mb RAM . |
| 15 | One look at the quality and depth of its management training programme is enough to explain why it has a £2.7 billion share of its market , and why it continues to thrive in the midst of an economic recession . |
| 16 | Operations will begin at the end of this year and the plant already has a £9,000 million order book which guarantees its capacity well beyond the year 2002 . |
| 17 | An economics graduate and a masters student in electrical engineering recently founded a fibre optics company that has a $2 million contract with Walt Disney Studios and 1982 revenues of $1 million . |
| 18 | Three further rootstock varieties cultivated in Champagne are : the 1103 Paulsen which has an 18% active lime resistance ; the 333 École de Montpellier , with more than 40% active lime resistance and satisfactory resistance to phylloxera ; and the 161–49 Couderc , which has 25% active lime resistance and excellent resistance to phylloxera . |
| 19 | Like the majority of d-i-y models , it has an 82mm planing width , and a maximum cutting depth of 0.5mm. larger capacity machines which take off as much as 3mm per pass are more expensive , and are only really worth the money if you are a professional . |
| 20 | He says Technology does not sell Sun Microsystems Inc kit to end users , sells Digital Equipment Corp Unix boxes only on an account-by-account basis and describes the Data General Corp , Groupe Bull SA and Hewlett-Packard Co lines it has on its books as subsidiary ranges . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a very likeable chap , always pepping people up in the dressing-room with a smile on his face , ’ says the £1.2 million capture from QPR . |
| 22 | However , that forecast assumes a ¥115 average exchange rate . |
| 23 | A MERSEYSIDE authority plans a £140,000 sporting programme for youngsters . |
| 24 | As an example , assuming that Neal 's transceiver uses an 8.4V d.c. supply , a Zener rated at 7.5V would be quite satisfactory . |
| 25 | LAWRENCE Baker from Southend reckons the £10 annual premium it cost him to add DAS legal expenses insurance to his household policy was the best tenner he ever spent . |
| 26 | That is the point at which the 2 per cent share shop charge equals the £28 standard service minimum . |
| 27 | It includes a 1162m productive zone . |
| 28 | This selection of winning tools includes a 20in Short cut saw for each runner up . |
| 29 | If a discount house buys a £50 000 Treasury bill for £48 000 at roughly what price will it sell it to a bank after six weeks ? |
| 30 | A three-month war equals a $9 billion bill for Japan . |