Example sentences of "[adv] [n mass] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 2 | VIRGIN is offering return tickets to New York and Boston from Heathrow and Gatwick for £186 , not £93 as stated in TODAY on Boxing Day . |
| 3 | Going round the major electronic subsidiaries , the company says that Macro , selling National Semiconductor Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and Philips Electronics NV parts , saw sales up 35% and profits up 75% as real demand starts to be overtaken by excessive ordering and manufacturers seeing shortages and extended lead times . |
| 4 | Before we take on staff and work out our programme we must elucidate what seem to be the key concepts in my instructions to date : ‘ pitch ’ , ‘ goal ’ , and ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 5 | Having hoped to raise about £1,000 and afford perhaps 300 mats , I was absolutely delighted at the response to the article you carried and the generosity of those who contributed . |
| 6 | Priced at about £20,000 and aimed mainly at the American market , the expedition promises not only the now commonplace deluxe basecamp and satellite telephone links , but a 24-hours service , complete with VDE , providing constant information about share price movements on Wall Street . |
| 7 | The non-turbo is expected to put out about 250bhp and to cost closer to £30,000 . |
| 8 | Using the same value for control absorption as above one can estimate that hexamethonium blocked about 85% and lidocaine about 50% of the secretion caused by the bacterium . |
| 9 | So he 's it 's often people that seem really quiet that is n't it ? |
| 10 | A monster pike measuring about 4ft and weighing over 30lb has had a £460 bounty put on its head after chomping its way through almost half the stock of waterfowl and fish in the boating lake at Alexandra Palace , North London . |
| 11 | Dry-cleaning will set you back around £28 but do n't forget that leather outlasts denim . |
| 12 | What I 'm , what I 'm trying to do is , is just er highlight er paths where they are , and , and , and drawing people 's attention to er to , to rights of way in the county , er obviously a lot of people probably would n't be , maybe people that 've just moved into the area , that sort of thing , people like myself who were n't too familiar with Oxfordshire before , er those sort of people probably would n't be aware without a book like this that there were a lot of paths on their doorstep , and some very pleasant countryside as well . |
| 13 | But North-East Transport 2000 spokesman Brian Milnes said : ‘ We think the railway could be reinstated for around £1m and take both passengers and freight off the roads reducing the need for a bypass . |
| 14 | Lessons will start at around £8.00 and go up to as much as £30.00 . |
| 15 | All four applications contained , Word 5.1 , Excel 4.0 spreadsheet , PowerPoint 3.0 presentation graphics and Mail 3.1 would cost over £1,000 if purchased separately at their recommended prices . |
| 16 | A dwelling in Scotland that is placed in band D will have been assigned that band because its value at 1 April 1991 is over £45,000 but does not exceed £58,000 . |
| 17 | Western Provident Association spent over £1m but recruited just 120 new subscribers . |
| 18 | Sponsored by Leigh Interests PLC and Heart of England Building Society , the tournament boasts a prize fund of over £5,000 and has already attracted 18 of England 's top 38 players including seven grandmasters and nine international masters . |
| 19 | A spiral perm can cost over £100 but do n't be tempted to try it at home to save money . |