Example sentences of "[verb] on [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L's utterance in line 45 begins with a comment on the photograph in London English ( " that 's me " ) but after a pause she switches to Creole to comment on V 's photography : " Valerie cut me off there , boy ! " which she follows with a laugh . |
| 2 | It is applied on 35 per cent of Britain 's potato crop . |
| 3 | The revenue reached an agreement that such employees should be taxed on 20 per cent . |
| 4 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 5 | Five days of negotiations at Estoril , Portugal , ended on Nov. 20 with the Angolan government and United States-backed UNITA guerrillas having agreed on 80 per cent of a ceasefire document drawn up by a Portuguese mediating team , according to the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation , José Manuel Durao Barroso . |
| 6 | The data also show that immunohistochemical techniques were much better than histological analysis , despite measurements performed on 1 µm epon sections observed under oil-immersion opics . |
| 7 | Comparison with the 1979 LFV survey showed , however , that modern dressings had reduced the popularity of tried and tested paste bandages while doing little to counteract the possibly damaging use of antiseptics , antibiotics and corticosteroids , still used on 21 per cent of EHA , and 18 per cent of PNK leg ulcers . |
| 8 | This splitting has occurred on 24.4 per cent of the teeth , which is a higher percentage than has been found in any of the pellet assemblages ( Table 3.10 ) . |
| 9 | It concludes that damaging levels of sulphur are deposited on 75 per cent of all European forestry , with the most severe impact occurring in those eastern countries which were once communist . |
| 10 | In the first place it is proposed that the calculation of earnings-related pension is now based on 20 per cent of a lifetime 's average earnings ( forty years ) rather than 25 per cent of the best twenty years . |
| 11 | Margaret Howell , British fashion 's great classicist , recently launched her first capsule collection of swimwear , based on Forties ' shapes . |
| 12 | It is alarming that families with children who accept a social fund loan have to try to make ends meet on 85 per cent of their normal income support entitlement . |
| 13 | As authorities in Spain and Kuwait try to unravel how billions of dollars slipped through the fingers of the Kuwait Investment Office ( KIO ) , the foreign-investment arm of the Kuwaiti government , they claim to have exposed dealings as murky and complex as anything now pinned on 1991 's most notorious crooks . |
| 14 | Seat 's last sales effort concentrated on zero per cent finance . |
| 15 | When the exam was introduced there was outcry as people realised English in some areas was being marked on 100 per cent course work with no final examination . |
| 16 | It is available on home loans of between £40,000 and £150,000 , where payments are deferred on 20 per cent of the loan in the first year and 10 per cent in the second . |
| 17 | These payments are calculated on 8.75 per cent of the sales value of production from 8.62608 per cent of the Ninian field [ 50 per cent of the Group 's interest in the field ] after deducting Government royalties and operating costs incurred in extracting the oil and conveying and treating it at Sullom Voe . |
| 18 | Corail bed linen printed on 100 per cent Egyptian cotton percale , available in red , blue or green ; Double duvet cover ; pillowcase ; designed by Pierre Frey for Yves Delorme . |
| 19 | Town & Country Building Society is putting on 1.25 per cent to bring its mortgage rate to 14.75 per cent . |
| 20 | Norwich & Peterborough Building Society is moving up 0.5 per cent to 14.5 per cent , but it put on 0.5 per cent just before the base rate rise was announced . |
| 21 | Blindfolded and presented with this and a Def Leppard album , sensible money could be put on 80 per cent of those challenged failing to tell the two apart . |
| 22 | Do you think at the moment society in Britain , in Scotland takes proper account of that variety of options , or do you think undue stress is put on one er one or other ? |
| 23 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 24 | this year their hopes rest on three XJ220c … the racing version of the world 's fastest production car … |
| 25 | For the second group , A was always followed by events having comparable strength ( X and Y were both reinforced on 50 per cent of occasions ) . |
| 26 | The fonts come on two 3.5″ floppy disks and installation is simplicity itself . |
| 27 | Comes on 1 800k disk |
| 28 | Comes on 1 720k 3.5″ disks |
| 29 | Comes on 14 3.5″ 720k disks |
| 30 | Comes on 4 720k 3.5″ disks |