Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the company should make about £7m in the full year , which puts the shares at 55p on a demanding multiple of 16 . |
| 2 | The manuscript should fetch around £150,000 ( $229,000 ) . |
| 3 | Germany has decided that 90% of the costs of cleaning sites in the eastern states should be split between state and federal governments ; the new owner should carry only 10% of the costs . |
| 4 | Maximum access to all of Calico 's object-oriented technology , including the source code , documentation and licensing rights should run about $750,000 . |
| 5 | Maximum access to all of Calico 's object-oriented technology including source code , documentation and licensing rights should run about $750,000 . |
| 6 | I am all in favour of paying this amount to the author , but I fail to see why a simple clerical task such as cashing my cheque , putting the goods in a parcel and posting it should cost nearly 200% more . |
| 7 | CV470 cartridge — £3.90 ( the forthcoming CV470 cartridge should cost about £2.15 ) . |
| 8 | A few figures may be mentioned for guidance : A Rottweiler , which is 65cm at the withers , should measure about 75cm from the breast bone to the point of rump . |
| 9 | Now Christie 's estimates that the thirty vases to be offered on 28 April should realise around £750,000 . |
| 10 | The company says that its cutbacks should save around $20m a year , however Levy adds in his letter that even after the restructuring ‘ BBN 's network products activity will continue to cause operating losses for the company ’ . |
| 11 | The Tysons should receive about £13,000 from the government , which will now be invested in a building society for him and his wife and their grandchildren . |
| 12 | Example B : A single postgraduate student , not from a hot country , should allow approximately £4,600 in living costs for a nine-month study period at the University of Edinburgh if accommodated in the private sector . |
| 13 | Example A : A single postgraduate student from a hot country should allow approximately £6,000 in living costs for a twelve-month study period at the University of Edinburgh if staying in University Halls of Residence . |
| 14 | For the full trips programme you should allow around £235 — it 's well worth the experience . |
| 15 | You should allow around £70 per week , but if you want more , you 'll have the chance to venture inland with us to Mexico City to experience the mystery of the Aztec and Mayan pyramids . |
| 16 | Nails should penetrate about 10mm into solid masonry and should not be driven into mortar joints . |
| 17 | Gentile da Fabriano sleeper may fetch over £ 1 million |
| 18 | Whereas a consumer using electricity only for lighting , an iron , a radio and a vacuum cleaner might use under 300kWh a year , the addition of one heavy current-using appliance like an immersion water heater or a cooker would more than quadruple that basic demand . |
| 19 | It 'll cost about £6,000 a time to import it to Britain . |
| 20 | You 'll pay around £128 for a rock climbing weekend , £77 for a weekend 's multi-activity holiday and £225 for a multi-activity week . |
| 21 | In all , it 'll add around £10 million to the bill for the M40 . |
| 22 | Some time later they might add about $1 billion to Zeneca 's annual sales . |
| 23 | I 'll put aside £5,000 worth for you . |
| 24 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 25 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 26 | And all for £2,325 , though if you replace the luxury of a VL-bus super-fast VGA card plus SuperVGA colour display ( that came with the review model ) with a more suitable mono VGA system , you 'd knock around £250 off that price . |
| 27 | On a good day a driver could make over $2.75 ; if he has a month of good days he earns more than a civil servant . |
| 28 | In 1984 , the Education ( Grants and Awards ) Act was passed to enable the DES to allocate directly a small proportion ( up to 1% ) of the Block Grant to support specific educational projects which the Secretary of State judged to be particularly important ; a grant could cover either 50% or 70% of the costs of a project ( 60% from 1990–91 ) . |
| 29 | Tolstikov , last year 's winner and joint favourite with South African Mark Plaatjes for Sunday 's race , could win about £32,000 to add to his appearance fee if he repeats his success . |
| 30 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |