Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Many ofthe people I need to work with are now in America because their tax rate is around half of the 60 per cent they have to fork out in Britain , " he explained . |
| 2 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 3 | Bring a breath of country air into your home using some of the traditional pot pourri , herb and spice preparations from Gail Duff 's fascinating book . |
| 4 | The introduction on Oct. 22 of a 10 per cent general consumption tax ( GCT ) provoked widespread criticism from the political opposition and scepticism from the business community . |
| 5 | Nor should anything especially sinister be read into reports that the money to pay for little Sachin has been provided by commercial concerns not averse to a little of the old quid pro quo . |
| 6 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Does the Chancellor agree that our abysmal economic growth performance since the Government took office in 1979 is due largely to the dismal performance of British manufacturing industry , and that the forecast for the year 1991 of a 15 per cent . |
| 9 | He has been asked to commit himself to 10 of the new Grand Prix tournaments next year , aside from the four Grand Slam events . |
| 10 | In view of the CBI 's projected figure for 1992 of a 4.4 per cent . |
| 11 | The population of England and Wales was undergoing a further massive increase — nothing short of a fifty per cent rise in the years from 1801 to 1831 — and the effects of the recent Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions hardly needed a post-war depression to make matters even worse for the poor . |
| 12 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 13 | As it is , the swing to Labour was a feeble 2.1 per cent , scarcely more than it achieved in 1987 , and well short of the 5.2 per cent to the Tories which brought Mrs Thatcher to power in 1979 . |
| 14 | But Labour — while winning a net 39 seats — achieved only a 2.1 per cent swing , well short of the eight per cent needed to achieve outright victory . |
| 15 | Their 3.9 per cent of the vote fell short of the 5 per cent threshold entitling them to representation in parliament . |
| 16 | KLM 's part in the NorthWest deal falls short of the 25 per cent limit placed on foreign ownership by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 . |
| 17 | In the event , however , only 13.8 percent of the electorate voted , well short of the 50 per cent required ; of those who voted , 85.9 per cent favoured direct election and 14.1 indirect election . |
| 18 | In the presidential elections the incumbent José Eduardo dos Santos of the MPLA-PT won 49.57 per cent of the vote , just short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a second round . |
| 19 | Environmental groups condemned the announcement as inadequate , pointing out that the UK target was lower than that of all other West European countries and fell short of the 60 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions which scientists regarded as necessary to stabilize greenhouse gases at current levels . |
| 20 | But in 1979 the Welsh voted four-to-one against a devolved assembly while in Scotland fewer than 33 per cent supported the idea , far short of the 40 per cent required by parliamentary decree . |
| 21 | Thus the vote , while in favour , was far short of the 40 per cent target required by Parliament . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The announcement on Oct. 3 of a 28 per cent devaluation of the local currency , the ouguiya , against the dollar was met by rioting in Nouakchott as local merchants increased food prices by 40 per cent ( US$1.00=105.852 ouguiya as at Oct. 19 , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 26 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 27 | Although many countries satisfy PLAN 's eligibility criteria , Tanzania ranks extremely high in terms of having one of the lowest per capita GNPs , low life expectancy , low primary school enrollment rates . |
| 28 | His death spawned one of the great Grand Prix meetings of Europe , the Ivo van Damme Memorial Meeting , held annually in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , itself a scene of appalling tragedy just over a year earlier at football 's European Cup Final . |
| 29 | Training in one of the many kung fu styles that exist today consists of the systematic learning and practice of pre-arranged sets known as forms . |
| 30 | The fan is an oriental accessory that can be used with great style and elegance when incorporated into one of the many kung fu forms . |