Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 1 [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 2 | Year-to-year variations in sulphur dioxide concentrations occur such as the 1 per cent increase between 1987 and 1988 and the 3 per cent decrease between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 3 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 4 | In a previous book I suggested that it might be parasitic , freeloading on the efforts of the 1 per cent , a theory that has more recently been taken up by molecular biologists under the name of ‘ selfish DNA ’ . |
| 5 | Thirdly UK contributions coming from the application of the 1 per cent VAT rate were also high , because of the high ratio of consumption expenditure to GNP within the UK . |
| 6 | However , in the event of a 1 per cent fall in the market rate , the return of the security is expected to decrease by less than 1 per cent . |
| 7 | For a 1 per cent concentration in the same amount of base oil , add 10 drops of essential oil ; for a 2 per cent concentration , add 20 drops and for 3 per cent , add 30 drops . |
| 8 | Securities with betas less than 1 are called defensive shares as a 1 per cent increase in the expected market rate of return is likely to yield a less than 1 per cent increase in the expected rate of return of the security . |
| 9 | For every 1 per cent increase in unemployment in the UK between 1950 and 1975 , he said , there was a 2 per cent increase in mortality — something like 17 000 deaths per year . |
| 10 | In Wales , for every 1 per cent . |
| 11 | Wages rose by 2 per cent for every 1 per cent increase in productivity according to figures for February , and unemployment rose in March by 63,000 to a total of 1,322,000 at the end of the month . |
| 12 | Harmful ultra-violet ( B ) radiation reaching the earth 's surface is expected to result in a rise of 700 skin cancer cases a year for every 1 per cent decrease in the ozone layer . |
| 13 | In the most sensitive cases yields were reduced by 1 per cent for every 1 per cent cut in the ozone layer . |
| 14 | These savings amount to roughly £1 billion for every 1 per cent cut in the base rate . |
| 15 | Earlier this year AMP acquired London Life , the mutual British life insurer , for just £15m which , with its own operations in the UK , gives it about a 1 per cent market share . |
| 16 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |
| 17 | So even on this minimal change scenario , eliminating the imbalance in tabloid partisanship would be worth a 1 per cent swing to Labour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Employees ' contributions should begin with a 1 per cent contribution from the first £1.00 of earnings . |
| 20 | Apart from the 1 per cent who have their own private supplies , the great majority of the UK population rely upon the decisions of the water suppliers to ensure that the great bulk of the water we drink and cook with is ‘ wholesome ’ . |
| 21 | Finally , if the imbalance between Labour and Tory tabloids had been eliminated — so that equal numbers read Tory and Labour tabloids , then Labour would still have benefited from a 1 per cent swing . |
| 22 | The gearing procedure will result in a 1 per cent . |
| 23 | Markets tumble : The FT-SE 100 index fell 30.5 points to 2,281.6 as a reaction to the 1 per cent increase in base rates . |
| 24 | This reduces to a 1 + a 2 + e . |
| 25 | The bill would have limited textile imports to a 1 per cent annual increase , and set quotas for most shoe imports at 1989 levels . |
| 26 | Revenue from VAT , limited to a 1 per cent rate of VAT on a common base , was also transferred to the EC . |
| 27 | However , Grundy ( 1986 ) , using data from the OPCS Longitudinal Study which is based on a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census linked to records from the 1981 Census , reports a similar pattern . |
| 28 | Switches can always be made although a charge of £10 plus a 1 per cent bid/offer spread would be payable . |
| 29 | This is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level , though we must bear in mind that these expectations are calculated on the basis of a purely random distribution of sites , which may not be quite true in practice . |
| 30 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |