Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) . |
| 2 | SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years . |
| 3 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 4 | The bid comes nearly 13 years after Unigate made its first , unsuccessful , attempt to buy Clifford and follows the latter 's announcement in October of a 60 per cent drop in first-half profits to £1.03 million . |
| 5 | Labour won Langbaurgh with a 3.6 per cent swing from the Conservatives , in a campaign marred by alleged racial insinuations against the successful Labour candidate , Ashok Kumar . |
| 6 | Immediately adjacent to Sanga Sanga , LASMO is the operator of the large and relatively unexplored Runtu PSC with a 65.63 per cent interest . |
| 7 | News broke in late June about a 50 per cent reduction in Japanese duty on imported spirits . |
| 8 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |