Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |
| 2 | Four Quartets was recognized as an extraordinary tour de force , however , in which the balance between stylistic adaptation , lyric statement and dramatic narrative had been maintained throughout . |
| 3 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 4 | Specialised materials , which Tootal promised would be an engine of growth , has yet to prove its worth , though continued heavy investment could be blamed for a 40 per cent fall in profits . |
| 5 | Die Gruenen had dropped below the 5 per cent needed to enter the Bundestag in the last polls . |
| 6 | He said the figures for the business rate were much better as expected with a 94.1 per cent collection rate and end of year shortfall of about £850,000 . |
| 7 | Medium term uses such as electronics ( 10 per cent ) and cars ( 7 per cent ) take up a proportion , while other consumer durables and mechanical engineering uses are included in the 25 per cent going to ‘ other sectors ’ . |
| 8 | The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period . |
| 9 | Some of the dealers clearly had their eyes cocked on the coming Biennale des Antiquaires , and were holding back their best pieces . |
| 10 | The share of personal assets owned by the 90 per cent below the richest 10 per cent has dramatically increased from 8 per cent in 1911 to 17 per cent in 1960 , and on to 46 per cent in 1983 . |
| 11 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 12 | The sustained and systematic assault upon the assumptions and procedures of classic realism , vigorously pursued by the leading nouveaux romanciers , could almost be said to represent a manifesto of postmodern aims and aspirations ; while the emphatic self-reflexivity of their novels is frequently cited as paradigmatic of radical textuality . |
| 13 | ‘ One shot showed a problem with the lever arms on the roll bar , so we had new ones made for the British Grand Prix at Aintree . |
| 14 | Many big chains had pushed for a 2 per cent reduction , but believe the 1 per cent cut could still help . |
| 15 | Mr Lamont resisted persistent demands from Labour for assurances that pensioners not covered by income support would be fully compensated for the 17.5 per cent increase from April 1995 . |
| 16 | It will be remembered that an estimate was made of a 20–30 per cent proportion of adults as subject to sexual difficulty . |
| 17 | The look-out towers were provided with clocks , and the fortified entrance was turned into a long porte cochère with projecting canopies . |
| 18 | The example of the United States may be cited in order to refute such a fatalistic approach , but the American colonies were the progeny of the most sophisticated democratic country in the world , and in any case the American republic expanded from a near tabula rasa , politically and geographically speaking . |
| 19 | In one school , the formulation of the library proposal became subsumed within an active ad hoc lower-school curriculum development committee led by an energetic and inspirational coordinator . |
| 20 | The effect of contested takeover bids on a company 's share price may be seen from the 139 per cent increase in the price of Rowntree 's shares during the first six months of 1988 — the best performance of any share in the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 21 | The first time one addresses an instructor , one should call him sifu , which means ‘ father ’ and is always applied to a Chinese kung fu instructor in accordance with the art 's long family traditions . |
| 22 | Is the Minister suggesting that , because a claim is made on a printed pro forma , it is less valid than other claims ? |
| 23 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 24 | We have already had reference this morning to the outcry against the handling of , of the mine closures and it was immense , the case was made by the Parliamentary Success er Select Committee for some serious thinking about energy policy for the future , yet the government did not think again , the political debate was at the level of whether Mr Heseltine would remain in power and nothing was changed . |
| 25 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 26 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 27 | The coupled Sepharose was packed in a 1.5 cm×1.3 cm column and carefully washed with a 50 mmol/l Tris/HCl , pH 8.0 , 0.15 mol/l NaCl buffer . |
| 28 | In Abkhazia , the Abkhaz population which favoured seceding from Georgia and remaining part of the Soviet Union boycotted the referendum , but the fact that the Abkhaz were a minority in their own autonomous republic was reflected in the 60 per cent turnout of voters , of whom 97.65 per cent voted " yes " . |
| 29 | The attacks were attributed to the banned Mouvement des forces démocratiques de la Casamance ( MFDC ) . |
| 30 | The employers , i.e. the federal government , Länder ( states ) and local government , then agreed to a 5.4 per cent pay increase plus extra payments to the lower paid . |