Example sentences of "[unc] [unc] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oesophageal motility studies showed that 16 of the 26 patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus had a defective lower oesophageal sphincter as defined by Zaninotto et al and a similar proportion of each group had weak or ineffective lower oesophageal peristaltic amplitude . |
| 2 | The company commented that it had benchmarked machines like ICL 's DRS6000 and a Sequent server in December 1990 but they were not considered fast enough . |
| 3 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
| 4 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 5 | Leasehold with a balance of 73 years unexpired with a ground rent of £15 per annum and a variable maintenance charge . |
| 6 | Using the quotation for British Petroleum in the same issue of the r m S we observe a market model estimate of beta of 1.05 , an R2 of 19 per cent and a standard deviation of 35 per cent , and using this data a beta of 1.0897 is estimated , a small difference and well within the standard error limits of + - 0.2 . |
| 7 | Levy and Sarrat argued that as the US market index had a mean return of 12.1 per cent and a standard deviation of 12.1 per cent , international diversification improved portfolio characteristics by reducing risk . |
| 8 | The report 's assumptions are based on one of the " business as usual " scenarios from the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : a doubling of the world population , an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide by 180 per cent and a global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees centigrade by the end of the next century [ see ED 57 , 59/60 ] . |
| 9 | ( Income tax is levied at a basic rate of 25 per cent and a higher rate of 40 per cent — correct as of 1990 budget . ) |
| 10 | Proposals for spending cuts totalling 9,000 million kronor ( US$1,660 million ) were put forward on Nov. 5 ; a reduction of value added tax ( VAT ) from 25 per cent to 18 per cent on a range of basic goods and services on Nov. 6 ; reductions in the tax on capital income from 30 per cent to 25 per cent and a similar reduction in the tax on share profits on Nov. 8 ; and the privatization of 35 major state-owned companies in stages from early 1992 onwards and the lifting of restrictions on foreign investors buying into or taking over Swedish companies on Nov. 11 . |
| 11 | To ensure that the Bank can maintain an acceptable degree of influence over short-term rates , the monetary control regulations introduced in 1981 required that banks maintain with the discount market funds equal to a daily minimum of 4 per cent and a monthly average of 6 per cent of their ‘ eligible ’ liabilities . |
| 12 | Another project , a pet project of the manager , has a 0.45 probability of yielding 20 per cent and a 0.55 chance of yielding nothing . |
| 13 | Labour would introduce a lower rate income tax of below 20 per cent and a top rate of 50 per cent , and would abandon higher rate income tax relief on mortgage payments . |