Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme was suspended in January 1991 because of the Gulf crisis , but in February legislation allowing for the 100 per cent privatization ( previously restricted to 49 per cent ) of companies in key sectors secured Parliamentary approval . |
| 2 | Again , quote Country Living when booking for a 10 per cent discount . |
| 3 | That institutions work in this way , contributing to the general status quo , becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 4 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 5 | Section three is a consolidated bid equating to the three per cent revenue development requested by Thomason Committee , and all committees earlier this year . |
| 6 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 7 | A four-year investor is looking for a 25 per cent return here , against a Japanese counterpart only asking for 7 per cent over 14 years . |
| 8 | The last thing she needed tonight was Victoria swanning around looking like a juvenile femme fatale . |
| 9 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 10 | Only two points separated the two mend going into the Italian Grand Prix at Monza when , six weeks after his accident , Lauda was back behind the wheel and , amazingly , increased his lead in the championship with a fourth place after Hunt failed to finish . |
| 11 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 12 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 13 | The shares are selling on a 25 per cent discount to assets and ‘ there is virtually no downside risk but at least 25 per cent upside potential ’ . |
| 14 | The total volume of French defence spending for the period 1990-93 which was to have been around F470,000 million , ( in line with a 1987 law providing for a 6 per cent annual growth rate in real terms ) , was to be cut by approximately F42,000 million . |
| 15 | The State of California 's Air Resources Board has announced new regulations for petrol , providing for a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants . |
| 16 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) is calling for a 40 per cent cut in North Sea fishing fleets in order to conserve fish stocks , particularly those of cod and haddock , which it warns could disappear from the area within five years if present catch rates continue . |
| 17 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 18 | Then spiral the bandage , aiming for a 50 per cent overlap |
| 19 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 20 | It has become the focus of concern after scientific studies suggested that depletion of the ozone layer was resulting in a 12 per cent reduction in numbers of phytoplankton — the organism at the bottom of the marine food chain , on which whales depend . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Britain 's universities were afflicted from 1 98 1 with very severe cuts in their funding , amounting to a 2 per cent drop in income for most universities . |
| 22 | Boeing is in discussions with European and Japanese companies about bringing in a 25 per cent equity partner into the development . |
| 23 | A long critical tradition , stemming from writers such as Grant Allen , Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis at the end of the nineteenth century , continuing through the liberal avant garde of the inter-war years , and culminating in the sexual reformers of the 1950s and 1960s , alive to the demands of permissiveness , has analysed the contradictions and absurdities of the moral code of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Salmond called on Sept. 27 for a referendum to be held setting out the choices for Scotland as full independence within the European Communities , limited self-government or continuing with the constitutional status quo . |
| 25 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 26 | The Chesterfield monument ( c.1580–90 ) , commemorating an unknown member of the Foljambe family , has the corpse loosely wrapped in an end-knotted winding-sheet and lying on a bier — the corpse does not lie flat but is slightly concave , as though suffering from a slight rigor mortis . |
| 27 | For example , if the economy is in the deflationary gap situation illustrated in Fig. 9 , but is also suffering from a 15 per cent rate of inflation , an increase in government spending or a cut in taxation designed to combat the unemployment is likely to worsen the rate of inflation . |
| 28 | The economy of the Cayman Islands continued to grow during 1989 and 1990 , building on the 16 per cent growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in real terms recorded in 1988 . |
| 29 | They are joining 19,000 ambulance crew members protesting against a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 30 | Government backbenchers effectively destroyed the Devolution Bill by insisting on the 40 per cent rule in the devolution referendum . |