Example sentences of "[noun] for [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 2 | If that 's the big success that everyone predicts , Donington could keep the European Grand Prix and emerge as a rival to Silverstone when the latter 's contract for the British Grand Prix runs out in l996 . |
| 3 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 4 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 5 | Mr Parkinson recently signalled ministerial concern by blocking BR 's plans for a 14 per cent fare rise in February . |
| 6 | About to join a battle royal with Britain and Germany over his ambitious plans for a 30 per cent increase in the EC budget , the last thing Mr Delors wanted was more tales of bogus food exports . |
| 7 | In contrast with the opposition 's plans for a 15 per cent " consumption tax " , there would also be personal tax cuts , giving three-quarters of taxpayers a top tax rate of 30 per cent , totalling A$3,400 million in 1994-95 and A$5,200 million in 1995-96 . |
| 8 | Hopes of the Economy Minister , Domingo Cavallo , for quick progress in talks begun in January over the Argentina 's foreign debt received a setback in mid-February when creditor banks rejected his requests for a 40 per cent cut in the country 's US$31,000 million commercial bank debt , under the terms of the 1989 Brady debt reduction plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 9 | I 've had two letters , one from Mrs Pauline Oliver of March , Cambridgeshire , and one from Mrs Brenda Mitchell of Shipley , West Yorkshire , about accessories for the Zippy De Luxe . |
| 10 | The wartime alliance had been followed by an occasionally hot ‘ cold war ’ and then , from the 1950s onwards , by a cautious search for a limited modus vivendi . |
| 11 | ‘ We used to have to go to them all and raise funds for the old Alma Mater . |
| 12 | Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race . |
| 13 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 14 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 15 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 16 | The most serious industrial disruption was a strike by 1,700 miners in Morocco 's largest coalfield at Jerada , 450 km east of Rabat , which began in mid-December 1988 with demands for a 20 per cent wage increase . |
| 17 | The glimpse of Johnson reflecting on the position of Slains Castle in relation to the perilous sea , displays a man with a capacity for the learned mot juste , surely a gift which Johnson polished , having discovered how he might impress with it . |
| 18 | Despite the insistence of Serbia that its actions were illegal , the Kosovo Assembly ( dissolved by the Serbian government in July 1990 — see pp. 37621-22 ) organized a referendum on Sept. 26-30 on sovereignty for the 92 per cent Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo , and proceeded on Oct. 19 to elect a provisional coalition government , headed by Bujar Bukoshi , which was recognized on Oct. 22 by Albania . |
| 19 | Public-sector workers began industrial action on April 27 — the first such action in the sector since 1974 — after employers rejected a mediating panel 's proposal for a 5.4 per cent wage rise on the grounds that it failed " to take account of current economic conditions " . |
| 20 | In 1967 , the TUC published a proposal for a 3 per cent tax on wealth holdings of more than £20,000 a year . |
| 21 | In England for the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch , I had a long conversation with James , of which I recall principally that it was about fate . |
| 22 | But Mr Fallon has criticised the county for only budgeting for a five per cent salary increase . |
| 23 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 24 | Nigel Mansell takes his place on the grid in Adelaide for the last Grand Prix of the season ; the last race of his championship winning year . |
| 25 | At that point , the occupying French carted off the painting to Paris for the new Musée Centrale des Arts . |
| 26 | Under the scheme , the top 40 staff will pay about £3.3m for a five per cent share stake in LWT . |
| 27 | In 1990 teachers in five provinces went on strike for a 100 per cent rise . |
| 28 | In an earlier dispute 8,000 diamond miners belonging to the NUM had cut diamond production by the De Beers mining company by a third in mid-October 1989 in support of a demand for a 26.6 per cent wage increase . |
| 29 | The Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo had already refused a demand for a 27 per cent increase in military salaries , in line with his March efforts to control inflation [ see pp. 38095-96 ] . |
| 30 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |