Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] a [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 2 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 3 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |
| 4 | Members of the secondary school teachers ' union ( LOME ) went on strike in July 1990 in support of a 15 per cent salary increase and improved training and conditions [ see also September 1990 strikes and July austerity measures p. 37721 ] . |
| 5 | Although the precise mechanism by which K + moves from cell cytosol to the lumen of the gastric gland is unclear , a number of mechanisms that link apical K + and Cl - transport have been proposed namely — solely electroneutral KCl cotransport , electroneutral KCl cotransport in parallel with a large Cl - conductance , K + movement by a population of K + -specific channels in parallel with apical Cl - channels , and simultaneous K + and Cl - movement mediated by an apical cotransporter with partial conductive properties . |
| 6 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 7 | This achieved a 12 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and completely eliminated emissions of sulphur dioxide , in site of a 23 per cent increase in energy consumption due to production expansion . |
| 8 | This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade . |
| 9 | In spite of a 16 per cent rise in Hydro 's oil production to a record high , selling prices slipped over the year from $20 to $19 a barrel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whether it would still continue to be free standing and well removed in terms of a second er second increment . |
| 12 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 13 | The employers on Friday increased their offer of 7.6 per cent and one extra day 's holiday , in answer to a 10 per cent demand with two extra days now . |
| 14 | 10K TRAINING SCHEDULES Here are specific training schedules designed to get you in shape for a great 10K race performance . |
| 15 | Leaders of ambulance crews argue that their industrial action , in protest at a 6.5 per cent pay offer , has exposed the lack of personnel which may have been responsible for the deaths . |
| 16 | He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 . |