Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 2 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 3 | The problems appear critical for the 20 per cent of the Merseyside population living in the poorest council housing and especially in the district of Knowsley where 48 per cent of the population ( six times the national average ) live in such areas . |
| 4 | Since the virus can spread through blood , transfusions could account for the 25 per cent of AIDS victims who are not gay . |
| 5 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mansell hoped he had seen the last of the Brazilian after the two were involved in a high-speed collision during the final Grand Prix of the season in Australia . |
| 9 | Representations and ultimata from Japan and other nations were ignored , and it was this Russian occupation of Manchuria that was to serve as the immediate casus belli of Russo Japanese confrontation . |
| 10 | I 've wondered whether we ought to separate but every time I bring this up , he cries and then worries about the 50 per cent of ‘ his ’ assets I 'll take with me if I do decide to go ! |
| 11 | A long critical tradition , stemming from writers such as Grant Allen , Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis at the end of the nineteenth century , continuing through the liberal avant garde of the inter-war years , and culminating in the sexual reformers of the 1950s and 1960s , alive to the demands of permissiveness , has analysed the contradictions and absurdities of the moral code of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 13 | He was on his way to becoming a statistic , one of the sixty per cent of fathers who lose all contact with their children within five years of divorce . |
| 14 | Of the 44 per cent of the electorate who took part in the poll , 73 per cent supported the plant . |
| 15 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
| 16 | In Scotland there was a majority in favour of devolution but it fell short of the 40 per cent of the electorate required by the statute . |
| 17 | This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles . |
| 18 | But market research , opinion polls and academic ‘ advisors ’ confirmed politicians in their belief that it might contribute to swaying the decision of the 3–4 per cent of ‘ floating ’ electors ; these votes could decide the election . |
| 19 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 20 | They feared he was one of the three per cent of victims who would die . |
| 21 | Department of Health guidelines , however , exclude screening or regular follow-up of women over 65 , and none of the 94 per cent of District Health Authorities with a recall system includes women of this age . |
| 22 | Of the 30 per cent of custodial parents who had remarried , one-third of the remarriages had already broken down . |
| 23 | A higher but unknown proportion of the 28 per cent of births now outside marriage are also likely to be unwanted . |
| 24 | Of the 28 per cent of the electorate who voted in the referendum , 53 per cent supported the ban . |
| 25 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
| 26 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 27 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 28 | Swings were highest amongst those who relied more on television than the press for help in deciding how to vote , rather lower amongst those who relied more on the press , and lowest of all amongst the 40 per cent of the electorate who found television and the press equally useful . |
| 29 | Of the three Baltic states , Lithuania had proportionally the smallest Russian-speaking minority ; according to 1989 census figures , Lithuanians formed 79.9 per cent of the Lithuanian population , as against the 53.7 per cent of titular nationality in Latvia and 64.8 per cent in Estonia . |
| 30 | Erm we believe that er where in cases of erm misappropriated or fraud , the compensation fund should be for a hundred per cent of what has gone . |