Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] 10 [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present about 10 per cent of pregnancies in Britain are at risk of producing a genetically " diseased " baby . |
| 2 | A conscious decision was taken to devote a proportion of the R&T budget [ at present about 10 per cent ] to strategic work , the remainder being funded by the businesses . |
| 3 | The Import Duties Bill of February 1932 also imposed a general tariff of 10 per cent on almost all imports , and the Import Duties Advisory Committee , which it formed quickly , raised the tariff to 20 per cent on manufactured goods , to between 25 and 30 per cent on luxury goods and to 33 per cent on chemicals and a wide range of other goods . |
| 4 | Starting in January 1992 , 95 per cent of bilateral trade would carry a common tariff of 10 per cent , which would fall to zero over four years . |
| 5 | ILP membership had already dropped by one third in the past four years , and three months after disaffiliation the NAC estimated a loss of 10 per cent of the remaining branches in protest . |
| 6 | The Mahaweli project — the largest foreign aid programme to date — will affect one third of the country 's land mass and lead to the relocation of 10 per cent of the country 's population . |
| 7 | A further series of enzyme activities were measured after incubation of gall bladder tissue in the presence of lipopolysaccharide from S typhosa ( Sigma ) at a concentration of 10 µg/ml . |
| 8 | Microtitre plate wells were coated with 100 n> l of anti-human transferrin ( Dakopatts ) in 0.05 M carbonate bicarbonate buffer ( pH 9.6 ) at a concentration of 10 µg/ml . |
| 9 | Her grazes were dressed , and a blood glucose concentration of 10 mmol/l was recorded with a BM strip . |
| 10 | In this model , we infused bile salts into the ileal lumen at a concentration of 10 mmol/l , a level which both approximated these postprandial luminal values and significantly inhibited ileal motor activity . |
| 11 | cAMP was included in the experiments with CRP at a final concentration of 10 µM . |
| 12 | In all the lower panels , CRP was added to the following final concentrations : Lane 1 : 0 ng/µl , lane 2 : 2 ng/µl , lane 3 : 0.2 ng/µl , lane 4 : 0.02 ng/µl. cAMP was added to a final concentration of 10 µM in both the binding reactions and in the electrophoresis buffer . |
| 13 | Carbon dioxide is consequently abundant in the atmosphere of soils , especially those characterized by high rates of organic activity ; it may reach a concentration of 10 per cent ( in comparison with 0.035 per cent in the free atmosphere ) . |
| 14 | A second difficulty lies in the uncertainty in our knowledge of the topography of Venus ; the precision is only ± 1500 m which leads to an uncertainty of 10 µs in timing . |
| 15 | An across the board budgetary cut of 10 per cent for all state departments was proposed ; there was to be a freeze on the hiring of state employees , a large reduction in the staffing of state mental hospitals and various other cost cutting measures . |
| 16 | In the lace 1970s , Congressman Jack Kemp and Senator William Roth had put forward the idea of an across-the-board income tax cut of 10 per cent in each of three successive years , a proposal taken up enthusiastically by supply-side advocates like Stockman and warmly embraced by Ronald Reagan . |
| 17 | These problems were compounded by the Polytechnic 's principled objections to the NAB 's overnight conversion of institutional responses to hypothetical planning scenarios devised by the DES ( involving a minimum cut of 10 per cent ) into ‘ bids ’ . |
| 18 | In proposing a cut of 10 per cent in the car tax , the society also suggested that there was a strong environmental case for reducing vehicle fuel taxation on diesel to make it significantly cheaper than petrol . |
| 19 | Mr McLevy said the workers had been locked out because they would not accept a cut of 10 per cent in their fringe benefits and a wages freeze . |
| 20 | Such infusion of caerulein in chronic pancreatic fistula rats caused a marked increase in protein output from basal secretion of 10 mg/30 minutes to 40 mg/30 minutes in the first hour of infusion followed by a decline in protein output to 15–20 mg/30 minutes in the following hours of the experiment . |
| 21 | In the present case 400mW is too low but 1.3W is well within ratings , even allowing for Zener tolerances and a possible mains surge of 10 per cent . |
| 22 | For example , the often quoted MORI survey ( Baker and Duncan , 1985 ) considered : The interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults about their childhood yielded a figure of 10 per cent who reported being sexually abused . |
| 23 | The addition of occupational pension rights to an estimate of the share of wealth owned by the poorest 80 per cent of the population in 1972 raises the figure from 10 per cent to 20 per cent , and including state-pension rights doubles this again to over 40 per cent . |
| 24 | Larner set the figure at 10 per cent , and in his later study , with the process of dispersal having become even more marked , Herman acknowledged that a holding of 5 per cent or more ‘ begins to approach non-negligibility from the standpoint of corporate power ’ . |
| 25 | A substantial shareholder means any person who is or was within the preceding year a holder of 10 per cent or more of the nominal value of any class of capital of the vendor or any other company within its group , including subsidiaries of its ultimate holding company having rights to vote in all circumstances at general meetings of the relevant company . |
| 26 | In December 1988 Gorbachev took the United Nations by storm and wrongfooted the American administration , then impotent during the hand-over of power from Reagan to President-elect George Bush , by announcing a unilateral reduction of 10 per cent in Russia 's conventional forces . |
| 27 | Similarly , an airspeed change of 10 mph/kts would require an attitude change of half a bar and an associated power change of 200 rpm . |
| 28 | All the above allowances apply to existing employees relocating at company request too but existing staff also receive a payment of 10 per cent of salary ( instead of one month 's salary ) together with an additional three-monthly allowance of £150 per month towards accommodation and/or fares ( that is , making a maximum period of six months ) . |
| 29 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 30 | In February 1990 , a MAFF study discovered that children and pregnant women were receiving more lead than had been thought , and recommended a level of 10 ug/litre , as applies in the USA . |