Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent .
2 Smiling at the round of applause from his audience , he took his seat on the front chaise longue and the show began .
3 Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court .
4 AS FRENCH outrage at the dismissal of charges against M Paul Touvier for alleged crimes committed during the Nazi occupation grew yesterday , the National Assembly suspended its afternoon session so that deputies could attend a demonstration at the Memorial of Deportation on the Ile de la Cite .
5 The forgoing calculations were made and represented graphically to give a return on an 8.9 per cent p.a. basis .
6 and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well
7 The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité .
8 Let the surface dry , then apply another coat of white stain mixed with matt polyurethane on a five per cent stain/ninety-five per cent polyurethane ratio .
9 Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics .
10 We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent .
11 How , Mellor wondered , would the Lib Dems respond to the unlikely scenario of getting a working majority on a 33 per cent poll ?
12 On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided .
13 There is a default on the 8 per cent Czechoslovak Republic dollar bonds of 1922 , and also on the Cities of Greater Prague and Carlsbad bonds issued in 1924 .
14 On the weekend of March 16-17 after a week of strikes the public-sector trade union ÖTV reached agreement with the federal government on a 6 per cent pay increase to be backdated to Jan. 1 , 1991 .
15 This sum is £1.30 ; in Birkenhead only 272 tenants pay less than this sum on a 20 per cent contribution .
16 'Cos there must be a great deal of pressure on the scientific erm er , problem was there and try and find
17 The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer .
18 The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer .
19 The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer .
20 Christopher Butler takes After the Wake ( 1980 ) as the title of his ‘ Essay on the Contemporary Avant Garde ’ .
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