Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borders businesses are also likely to benefit as a 17 per cent reduction in water bills is planned . |
| 2 | There are only two things you need to know about the new Grand Prix season which kicks off in Kyalami , outside Johannesburg this Sunday . |
| 3 | It is then assumed that these mortality measures correctly reflect more general health ( or morbidity ) differentials and , furthermore , that 10 per cent extra resources are needed to compensate for a 10 per cent excess risk . |
| 4 | I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there . |
| 5 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 8 | Central London agents Cluttons estimate that for properties valued under £185,000 , it is now cheaper to buy with a 95 per cent mortgate than to rent . |
| 9 | Many , financially stretched with community care implementation , find it hard to locate the 30 per cent needed to qualify for the 7- per cent grant . |
| 10 | Officials are already concerned he does not spend enough time there to qualify for the 12 per cent tax laws . |
| 11 | To travel is to be continually surprised , to keep on the visual qui vive . |
| 12 | I 'd be very surprised if he manages to keep to the 1.5 per cent increase in public sector pay . |
| 13 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 14 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
| 15 | There was no increase in the licence fee to pay for a 50 per cent jump in programme hours . |
| 16 | This will amount to about a fifth of the £20m Aegon is to pay for the 40 per cent cut in the business . |
| 17 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
| 18 | Mansell was penalised for failing to stop during the Portuguese Grand Prix and he threatened to quit if FISA , the sport 's governing body , did not remove the ban . |
| 19 | The AGRs have also enabled the nuclear component of electricity production in the United Kingdom ( including Scotland ) to push through the 20 per cent barrier . |
| 20 | If they are to return to a 10 per cent liquidity ratio , they need only retain £11 billion as balances at the Bank of England ( £11 billion £1 l0 billion = 10 per cent ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Demonstrating in a tangible way the ‘ anxiety of influence ’ , in Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient ( 1985 ) and Claude Simon 's Discours de Stockholm ( 1986 ) , Sartre is castigated for having failed to follow through the innovative La Nausée ( 1938 ) by writing Les Chemins de la Liberté ( 1945 — 49 ) , which seemed unambiguously political in conception and , as a consequence , axiomatically non-modernist . |
| 23 | Then it was presented with a list of terminal patients and had to skim off the 25 per cent who would be okayed for resurrection . |
| 24 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 25 | Subsequently two-thirds of all the recognized abuse in their population was found to occur in the 18 per cent predicted high risk group-19 out of the total of 28 recognized cases . |
| 26 | Trade with European Community ( EC ) countries , on the other hand , was expected to rise to a 40 per cent share of Hungarian trade in 1991 . |