Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its biggest problem is a resounding thrum at 4000–4500 rpm that booms around the cabin . |
| 2 | £1 this comes at the same time as having to make fundamental changes to central corporate systems to address the issues of , on the one hand , the Local Government Act 1988 ( which contains the requirements of competition legislation ) and , on the other hand , attempting to identify and apportion expenditure to individual schools and colleges to meet the requirements of the Education Act 1988 . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is also right to draw attention to the high additional spending programmes of some £35 billion advocated by the Labour party , which would put a crippling tax burden on so many families in Britain . |
| 4 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 5 | To be used successfully a simulation model must adequately represent the system under study and there must be sufficient relevant data available to allow for the calibration or tuning of the model . |
| 6 | His proposals would limit Harlow 's spending to £11.20 million instead of £17.953 million budgeted by the council , and that of Castle Point to £7.97 million instead of £8.47 million . |
| 7 | As many as 40 local councils stood to lose up to £100 million from the collapse of BCCI , the largest likely loss being that of the Western Isles which had £23 million invested in the bank . |
| 8 | Monthly PC sales have topped six figures for the first time , with 100,165 computers worth £111.6 million shipped in the UK during November 1992 . |
| 9 | Phillips also contradicts Clarke 's view that cuts of £28 million forced on the Science and Engineering Research Council are the result of ‘ reckless overcommitment ’ by the SERC . |
| 10 | The house was then advertised for sale at £15 million compared to the £6 million it had sold for in 1988 . |
| 11 | The total costs are now estimated at £25 million capital costs , plus either ] £10 million or £16 million needed for the endowment necessary to fund the operating costs of the extended library and the permanent outhousing of 50 staff . |
| 12 | Christie believes his buddy is in the sort of shape to be crowned the overall men 's Grand Prix champion at Crystal Palace next Friday and collect the £87,000 that goes with the title . |
| 13 | The Housing Act 1925 , s. 46 provided for the assessment of compensation for land acquired compulsorily under an improvement or reconstruction scheme made under that Act in a manner differing in certain respects from that prescribed by the Act of 1919 . |
| 14 | Mr MacAskill argued that Scotland was already losing out to the south of England in terms of investment with £65 million spent over three years north of the Border compared with £1.2 billion allocated by the Government to fund the Jubilee Underground line in London . |
| 15 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 16 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 17 | In December , the DoT decided against granting the £5 million needed for the road , which would stretch from nearby Snape Hill to Red Bridge . |
| 18 | Under pressure : oil firms fear the impact of changes which will mean up to £400 million lost to the industry |
| 19 | The Wolfson Foundation spends about £17 million a year on medical research ( compared with a total of about £400 million spent by the other charities ) . |
| 20 | One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard . |
| 21 | The Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office said today in an answer that we are giving £2 million or £3 million to assist with the repatriation of refugees in camps in Thailand . |
| 22 | Conklin ( 1977 : 4 ) estimates that in 1977 these four offences in the USA accounted for between $3–4 billions compared with the annual loss of around $40 billions resulting from various white-collar crime , of which consumer fraud , illegal competition , and deceptive practices account for at least half . |
| 23 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 24 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 25 | They were chiefly concerned with the destiny of the £2.1 million identified within the strategy for community developments ( Table 2 ) . |
| 26 | Take a married couple with about £1.6 million invested in the stock market living off dividend income of slightly under £80,000 a year . |
| 27 | And £1.66 million came from the sale of the paper-making and packaging businesses . |
| 28 | An extra £2 billion flooded into the market as the top 100 share index rose by over 13 points . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |
| 30 | And they 're looking for your money-raising ideas to top the record £2 million raised in the south last time … and the zanier the ideas the better , say the organisers . |