Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , Walker points out that , in 1981 , 66.8 per cent of all pensioners lived at or below the 140 per cent supplementary-benefit level , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly ; and the risk of experiencing poverty is three times greater for those over retirement age than it is for those below it . |
| 2 | Thus the last burst of activity in the UK housing market — from the mid-Eighties to 1989 , when many of the largest mortgages were taken on — was based on the assumption that some rates would remain at or below the ten per cent threshold . |
| 3 | fall in manufacturing investment , and of the 20 per cent . |
| 4 | The exception , of course , is those less well-off pensioners who are disabled or over 80 , where the order provides for additional increases of £1 a week for a single pensioner and £1.50 for a couple , over and above the 7 per cent . |
| 5 | A peace commission to help bring an end to the separatist violence in Casamance , which had intensified since mid-1990 , was established on Jan. 2 ; the commission , made up of representatives from the government and from the separatist Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance ( MFDC ) , was placed under the mediation of the government of Guinea-Bissau . |
| 6 | The Barley Mow tends to be an instant poll of opinion on matters motor racing , and before the Spanish Grand Prix when a Mansell comeback was mooted , one regular announced that he hoped it was true because Nigel was the most exciting British driver anyone could remember . |
| 7 | and in the salacious La vie de un vallet amerous , " The life of a lusty lad " , which includes the lines : ( " Dearly beloved one now hear my prayer ; I 'm brave enough to fuck you and to shove my prick up your cunt . " ) |
| 8 | To Napoleon , the reduction of the monasteries and the abolition of the Inquisition were not part of a plan to reform and regenerate Spain but improvised responses to financial necessity and to the French idée fixe that rebellion was the work of monks . |
| 9 | Yet 95 per cent of diets fail , and among the 5 per cent of women who do achieve permanent weight-loss , many have developed serious eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia . |