Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 2 | Trade with European Community ( EC ) countries , on the other hand , was expected to rise to a 40 per cent share of Hungarian trade in 1991 . |
| 3 | The dose equivalence tended to fall with increasing doses of salmeterol indicating that the responses were tending to plateau with the 200 µg dose . |
| 4 | Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed . |
| 5 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 6 | It is then assumed that these mortality measures correctly reflect more general health ( or morbidity ) differentials and , furthermore , that 10 per cent extra resources are needed to compensate for a 10 per cent excess risk . |
| 7 | er until , until the end and they had a poll of er who who has been persuaded to vote for the three la , you know , what had they done |
| 8 | We will , I 'm now going to vote on the two er items that 've been discussed but before so doing , before so doing , may I bi be permitted to congratulate those new members of Council who have made , I think , excellent |
| 9 | Many , financially stretched with community care implementation , find it hard to locate the 30 per cent needed to qualify for the 7- per cent grant . |
| 10 | Last night Ford declined to comment on the long-awaited Jaguar/GM statement although the company is expected to respond shortly . |
| 11 | A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture . |
| 12 | Mansell was penalised for failing to stop during the Portuguese Grand Prix and he threatened to quit if FISA , the sport 's governing body , did not remove the ban . |
| 13 | Subsequently two-thirds of all the recognized abuse in their population was found to occur in the 18 per cent predicted high risk group-19 out of the total of 28 recognized cases . |
| 14 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 15 | Only services managed to grow by a meagre 2.4% . |
| 16 | Since the possession of the knife was not in itself illegal , the jury should have been directed to look at the accused 's intent . |
| 17 | Claiming to speak for the eighty per cent of Kindertransporte refugees who were clearly Jewish ( though of these only twenty per cent were orthodox and at least fourteen per cent were non-practising ) , Schonfeld argued a policy of Jewish homes for Jewish children and , if this failed , for the RCM to devote its energies to raising money for hostels where religious supervision ( of a strictly orthodox nature ) could be guaranteed . |
| 18 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 19 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 20 | I 'd be very surprised if he manages to keep to the 1.5 per cent increase in public sector pay . |
| 21 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
| 22 | as possible to make it easier for them to set it up , is that we 're hoping to develop within the next er few months in fact , a certification form |
| 23 | Then it was presented with a list of terminal patients and had to skim off the 25 per cent who would be okayed for resurrection . |
| 24 | Mr Clarke seems to want to go through the whole er litigation process , what do you think about er his decision ? |
| 25 | There are only two things you need to know about the new Grand Prix season which kicks off in Kyalami , outside Johannesburg this Sunday . |
| 26 | Chairman I 'll get the ball rolling I suppose erm I have to deal with the ludicrous sh statement from County Council now the savings , proposed savings on the fire cover review . |
| 27 | Demonstrating in a tangible way the ‘ anxiety of influence ’ , in Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient ( 1985 ) and Claude Simon 's Discours de Stockholm ( 1986 ) , Sartre is castigated for having failed to follow through the innovative La Nausée ( 1938 ) by writing Les Chemins de la Liberté ( 1945 — 49 ) , which seemed unambiguously political in conception and , as a consequence , axiomatically non-modernist . |