Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , quote Country Living when booking for a 10 per cent discount . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The last thing she needed tonight was Victoria swanning around looking like a juvenile femme fatale . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then spiral the bandage , aiming for a 50 per cent overlap |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Boeing is in discussions with European and Japanese companies about bringing in a 25 per cent equity partner into the development . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They are joining 19,000 ambulance crew members protesting against a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 21 | The broader view based on cost benefit analysis ( taking all costs and benefits into account ) was still unacceptable to a government insisting on an 8 per cent direct investment return . |
| 22 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 23 | One of the members of the campaign , Richard McCance , stood as an openly gay candidate for Labour , winning with a 13 per cent swing a seat which the Tories had held for forty years . |
| 24 | Whitehall faces the prospect of a new ‘ brain drain' following a 6.5 per cent pay increase for senior civil servants , union leaders said . |
| 25 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |