Example sentences of "on [art] [n mass] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The drillers on the 150ft high derrick , are working around the clock 7 days a week . |
2 | Based on the Mach 3.0 kernel with the CMU BSD/Unix server , it will run on an SE/30 or a MacII and its x , cx , ci , and fx editions . |
3 | The NAO report concentrates on the £18 billion bill faced by the industry in closing down and dismantling stations ( of which the government has agreed to cover a third ) . |
4 | London is faring particularly badly : this quarter new commissions were valued at £3,143 million , 23 per cent down on the previous quarter and dramatically down on the £7,247 million value for the same quarter last year . |
5 | The chair of the Russian Central Bank , Georgy Matiukhin , announced on Jan. 10 that Russia wanted a deferral of interest payments on the $84,000 million debt owed by the former Soviet Union to commercial banks and western governments , in addition to the deferral of principal repayments agreed on Dec. 17 [ see p. 38656 ] . |
6 | There are thousands of jobs in British Aerospace , Rolls Royce , Ferranti , GEC and other companies dependent on the £22 billion EFA programme . |
7 | Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents . |
8 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |
9 | That 's a great increase on the 9% another survey quoted barely six months ago , and shows the kind of growth we can expect to see . |
10 | Last year 's extraordinary tax credit of £4.8 million relating to the House of Lords judgement in May 1992 on the £50 million payment to Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited in 1984 has been reclassified as exceptional and is included in profit after tax and earnings per share . |
11 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
12 | Sixteen companies and around 300 sub-contractors had claimed £85m of extra payments on the £2.3 billion theme park . |
13 | The Easoe scientists said that the ozone loss was more serious than they had expected when they embarked on the £14 million experiment in late 1991 . |
14 | Instead , a British Rail executive bypassed a possible ban on the £5 million junction in Lanarkshire . |
15 | Grand Met 's group p&l account on the old basis shows profit before tax of £902m ( v £950m ) , while on the FRS 3 basis the pre-tax figure is £925m ( v £448m ) . |
16 | On the £15 million acquisition costs to buy out the private Rover shareholders , Lord Young writes : ‘ I have had further discussions with Commissioner Sutherland [ Sir Leon Brittan 's predecessor in charge of competition policy ] . |
17 | Close co-operation between all parties involved on the £130 million project was paramount in ensuring the work was completed on schedule . |
18 | Traffic will be severely disrupted today in Scarborough 's town centre because of work on the £350,000 new traffic scheme in Westborough , Northway and Valley Bridge Parade . |
19 | The venture , now some 26 months old , had assembled an impressive launch team behind an aggressive plan to produce low-cost full-page 15-inch bit-mapped monochrome X terminals based on the MIPS 3000 chip and some homegrown ASICs ( UX No 368 , 369 ) . |
20 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
21 | UNION leaders called for High Street banks to be taxed on the £500 million profit they made during the sterling crisis . |
22 | GEC Ferranti is already employed on the £300 million contract to create the radar for the EFA , and is among the favourites to win the task of developing an integrated helmet-mounted display system . |
23 | GEC Ferranti is already employed on the £300 million development contract to create the radar for the EFA , which has been devised by Britain , Italy , Spain and Germany . |
24 | The compensation would be the ‘ admitted claim ’ on the £300 million fund ( plus one-seventh for accrued interest on the amount of the claim ) . |
25 | ( No claim had ever been made on the £300 million fund for loss of development value . ) |
26 | Naturally the case attracted a lot of attention and , as a result , a new provision was introduced in the 1954 Bill to alleviate the position of persons , usually small owners , who suffered a loss on compulsory acquisition because there was no established claim on the £300 million fund . |
27 | Last , your comment on our Latin American mandates fails to recognise our role as sole adviser on the $12 billion privatisation of 18 Mexican banks , and leader on the $1.1 billion effort for SEGBA in Argentina . |
28 | WCUK , London & South East has started work on the £13.7 million scheme which will feature a three storey development of offices and shops built behind the restored terracotta facade of the old warehouse . |
29 | Last , your comment on our Latin American mandates fails to recognise our role as sole adviser on the $12 billion privatisation of 18 Mexican banks , and leader on the $1.1 billion effort for SEGBA in Argentina . |
30 | Because the channel is in its low-affinity state , it may be positioned on the cGMP dose-response curve to be sensitive to a small decrease in free cGMP concentration , thus facilitating its closure . |