Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've wondered whether we ought to separate but every time I bring this up , he cries and then worries about the 50 per cent of ‘ his ’ assets I 'll take with me if I do decide to go ! |
| 2 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 3 | His statue stands in the delightful Place Royale , above the possessive caption of ‘ Lou Nouste Henric ’ , or ‘ Our Henry ’ in the local Gas con patois . |
| 4 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 5 | This fact probably has over a fifty per cent accuracy . |
| 6 | The dummy is nonetheless a vital element in the scrum-half 's armoury in order to buy that odd half-second of time ; for example , in a scrum where a flanker or scrum-half is set to pounce as the ball lies at the opposing no.8 's feet , a dummy for the no.9 would ( 1 ) remind the players where the off-side line is , and ( 2 ) buy him an extra second of time to distribute the ball , and ( 3 ) avoid potential injury from being flattened by his opponents and , controversially … ( 4 ) earn the chance of a penalty . |
| 7 | However the plan also allows for a 36 per cent rise in carbon dioxide emissions from heavy industry and power plants . |
| 8 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 9 | However , a small consolation was the extra help with fuel and power costs after the eight per cent VAT charge , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Today , a formal lowering of the male retirement age to 60 has been rejected on grounds of cost , but high rates of unemployment among the 60–64 age-group , together with official encouragement for unemployed men to leave the labour force , amounts to an informal de facto policy of increasing early retirement for men . |
| 11 | Second , he introduced a further equation — a price equation — and found that , as the rational expectations theory predicts , an anticipated rise in monetary growth , of say per cent , leads to an immediate per cent rise in the price level , whereas a similar unpredictable rise in monetary growth leads initially to a less than per cent rise in the price level . |
| 12 | That , Mr Sampson said , gave rise for concern with a 15.7 per cent increase during the year , which compares with a 14 per cent rise for Scotland as a whole . |
| 13 | That compares with a 42 per cent increase in the average council house rent in Scotland since 1989 . |
| 14 | This compares with a 22 per cent increase over the same period last year |
| 15 | This compares with the 11 per cent for the population aged 65 + reported by Morgan et al . |
| 16 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 17 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 18 | Thousands of demonstrators protested in Tehran on July 6-12 against recent price rises including a 500 per cent rise in bus fares . |
| 19 | The curtain rises on the 79th Tour de France in the Basque resort of San Sebastián . |
| 20 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 21 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 22 | The Halifax 's surge contrasts with the 9 per cent profits setback to £564 million at its rival , Abbey National . |
| 23 | Derives from the Latin pomum ambrae meaning ‘ apple of amber ’ . |
| 24 | The dressing-down comes as a 60 per cent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday . |