Example sentences of "[adj] by [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was found unacceptable by 57 per cent , quite acceptable by 35 per cent and very acceptable by 7 per cent . |
| 2 | This was found unacceptable by 57 per cent , quite acceptable by 35 per cent and very acceptable by 7 per cent . |
| 3 | Its economists estimate that Scotland 's gross domestic product will rise in 1993 by 3.5 per cent , compared with the 1 per cent predicted for the UK as a whole in the Government 's economic statement last autumn . |
| 4 | Since ATP took over the tour , World Series tournaments , ( for which the minimum ‘ financial commitment ’ such as prize money , tournament fees and other costs are now called , increases in 1993 by 20 per cent to $300,000 ) , have been allowed to pay appearance money . |
| 5 | Cultivated land decreased during 1972–3 by 22.4 per cent — the lowest level for forty years . |
| 6 | It was revealed in June that the USSR budget deficit had exceeded the planned level in the first quarter of 1991 by 360 per cent . |
| 7 | The annual survey of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , published on June 18 , showed that world arms trade in large conventional weapons had dropped in 1991 by 25 per cent in value to US$22,114 million . |
| 8 | Sino-Mongolian trade rose , however , in January-March 1991 by 43 per cent as compared with the same period in 1990 to reach US$10,000,000 . |
| 9 | Joanna Baker , marketing director of the Festival , welcomed a decision yesterday by the Scottish Arts Council to increase its grant in 1993-94 by 5 per cent to £684,500 . |
| 10 | Between 1955 and 1965 average wage rates rose by 4 per cent , from then until 1974 9 per cent , and in 1975 by 30 per cent [ Prest and Coppock ] . |
| 11 | It will pay a second interim of 7.15p on 31 March , lifting the total for 1992-93 by 13.5 per cent to 10.5p . |
| 12 | In our panel of voters the Conservative lead over Labour increased by 34 per cent amongst Sun/Star readers but by a mere 2 per cent amongst Mirror readers , which suggests the tabloids were able to influence their readers . |
| 13 | Overall , in this panel , the Conservative lead over Labour increased by 10 per cent between 1986 and election day in 1987 . |
| 14 | The red fox , for instance was found to produce the greatest degree of breakage , with no humeri or femora being preserved intact and the former represented by 83 per cent distal ends and the latter by 62 per cent proximal ends . |
| 15 | Typical dimensions of the remaining crystallites were 46 nm long by 7.3 nm wide corresponding to bundles of about 100 to 150 chains in each crystallite . |
| 16 | The zloty was devalued on May 17 by 14.4 per cent against the US dollar to a rate of US$1.00=Zl11,100 . |
| 17 | In total , the market increased in value in 1992 by 15 per cent over the previous year to £3.26 billion , it said . |
| 18 | Where I have to take issue with the LTA , however , is over its decision to increase prize money for 1992 by 20 per cent from $500,000 to $600,000 , which will be exactly double the minimum requirement from tournaments in the same category on the ATP Tour , for 1993 . |
| 19 | The tourist rate had been devalued on Nov. 4 by 31.9 per cent , to reach $1.00=47 roubles . |
| 20 | For example , manufacturing employment fell in London between 1960 and 1981 by 51 per cent , in Birmingham by 41 per cent , in Manchester by 46 per cent , while it expanded in rural areas by 24 per cent . |
| 21 | The Reserve Bank of India ( RBI , the central bank ) devalued the rupee on July 1 and 3 by 8 per cent and 10 per cent respectively against the US dollar ( as at July 8 , 1991 , the rate was US$1.00=Rs25.1842 ) . |
| 22 | Toward 2000 , points out that with the production of fuelwood expected to fall short by 40 per cent , ‘ many poor people will not be able to cook their food adequately . |
| 23 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 24 | On March 3 the rupee depreciated by 9.4 per cent , although share prices rose sharply on the Bombay Stock Exchange . |
| 25 | Responses of the type 0.4 = ¼ were given by around 13 per cent of pupils to most of the questions where a decimal was presented , but 2.3 was given as ⅔ by 45 per cent of pupils . |
| 26 | Even though the prices of many of the goods which were used in constructing the retail price index were subject to government control , the official consumer price index increased between January 1970 and September 1973 by 119 per cent and , using this same index , the official rate of inflation in the fourth quarter of 1973 was over 500 per cent . |
| 27 | The dinar was devalued on Jan. 1 by 22.2 per cent against the deutschmark to a rate of DM1.00=9 dinars . |
| 28 | Ethiopia 's currency , the birr , was devalued on Oct. 1 by 58.6 per cent ( as at Oct. 5 , 1992 , US$1.00=4.9398 birr ) . |
| 29 | Erm interestingly enough there 's a report that Kinsey as a young man at college erm was approached by a friend who had this this terrible personal problem and er confessed to Kinsey that he kept feeling tempted to masturbate and he was very disturbed by this er so Kinsey and he prayed together that they would er together have the strength to give up masturbation . |
| 30 | González on March 7 authorized price rises for public-sector companies , including an increase in petrol prices of 124 per cent in water charges of 58 per cent retroactively to November 1989 , even though the state-run water company had already raised its prices by 87 per cent on Feb. 8 and in telephone charges , which had already risen on Feb. 8 by 112 per cent , of a further 300 per cent . |