Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They involved ( i ) the privatization of 20 state-owned enterprises , including the national airline EEA ; ( ii ) the reduction of public spending across the board by an estimated US$35,000,000 or 4 per cent ; ( iii ) a freeze on public-sector employment ; ( iv ) the devaluation of the sucre ( initially by 27.6 per cent — as at Sept. 14 , 1992 , US$1.00=1,789.24 sucres at the official rate ) ; ( v ) price increases of 125-165 per cent for higher grade petrol and of 25-125 per cent for electricity ; and ( vi ) curbs on the use of official cars and on free air travel . |
| 2 | ‘ While you provide the contrast as a proper femme fatale . ’ |
| 3 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 4 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 5 | Stockholm : Strong gains by engineer Alfa-Laval helped the index to a 0.06 per cent rise . |
| 6 | As well as competitive asking prices , Fairview offers a choice of cash benefits , including payment of legal fees and stamp duty , and the payment of a five per cent deposit or free management charges for a year . |
| 7 | Abulfez Elchibey , leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , was sworn in as President on June 16 , after receiving 59.4 per cent of the vote in a 76 per cent turnout in elections on June 7 ; there were five candidates in all . |
| 8 | This would range from total recovery to the maintenance of a vegetative status quo . |
| 9 | The voluntary agreement commits the industry to a 50 per cent . |
| 10 | And fireworks are expected to fly as ministers battle to protect their cash plans in the light of a strict 244.5bn pounds spending limit . |
| 11 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 12 | The illusion of an automatic tabula rasa also undermines the need for society to reflect on the consciousness that evolved under the conditions of the past 40 years . |
| 13 | It was decided instead to adopt less strict targets for these areas and to tighten the target for the rest of the continent to a 60 per cent gap reduction . |
| 14 | And certainly should not live under the rule of a foreign er power . |
| 15 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 16 | He was soaked before he reached Chantal 's place off the affluent rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré , the home of a dozen haute couture fashion and perfume shops . |
| 17 | The structures of related polyamides do not always lead to this neat arrangement of intermolecular bond formation ; for example the geometry of an extended nylon-7,7 chain allows the formation of only every second possible hydrogen bond when the chains are aligned and fully extended . |
| 18 | This would be an inappropriate measure for most purposes as most of the effects of a 10 per cent inflation rate ( discussed later in this chapter ) would still apply . |
| 19 | Meanwhile some 2,600,000 people in the central and southern provinces were suffering from the effects of a 60 per cent fall in agricultural production attributed to drought and conflict . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , in one significant respect an important modification to the common law rule could be seen with the proposal for a new s15A of SGA 1979 . |
| 21 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 22 | Secondly , both houses sitting jointly as a " congress " in Versailles would have to approve the revision by a 60 per cent majority . |
| 23 | By leasing he could not only spread the payments , but either enjoy for himself the benefit of a 100 per cent tax write-off on the asset of the plane in the first year , or come to some arrangement with a financier , who would build the tax deduction into the price . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 25 | Er I 'm not sure in in the case of the the example you 've given of the arising in Greater York that the question of a regional sop shopping centre would arise because that is not necessarily something that is generated within Greater York . |
| 26 | A cloud of dust appeared on the horizon , the air was again torn by the sound of a high-pitched buzz and Giovanna rode , as Molly hoped , to the rescue . |
| 27 | The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women . |
| 28 | It included the introduction of new taxes , the raising of charges for fuel and power , the maintenance of petrol prices at a high level ( despite the unrest caused by recent increases — see p. 37919 ) , and the establishment of a 9 per cent duty on imports , which last was expected to raise over $700,000,000 annually . |
| 29 | Secondly and/or alternatively , it is argued that even if this is a case where the conventional Cyanamid principles fall to be applied , the mother 's claim to interlocutory relief falls at the first hurdle , namely the establishment of an arguable prima facie case . |
| 30 | McErlean , 26 , the husband of a former Sinn Fein councillor , was ambushed by Loyalist hitmen as he and his teenage brother drove to work from his home in Dunloy , Co Antrim . |