Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Then he qualified for 100 per cent help . |
| 2 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 3 | Incidentally what er arrangements er if any , have Mike and have Mike and Dawn made for this er summer ? |
| 4 | Inter-coder reliability ranged between 84 per cent and 89 per cent . |
| 5 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 6 | During the sixties the rate of inflation experienced in the UK , although higher than that of most international competitors , never rose above 10 per cent . |
| 7 | Patients living within the defined geographical area were considered to have severe acute renal failure if the serum creatinine concentration rose above 500 µmol/l for the first time and then returned to below that level and remained there or if the patient died during the acute illness and the history or necropsy confirmed acute renal failure . |
| 8 | With the ending of income tax after 1815 , indirect sources yet again rose above 70 per cent . |
| 9 | If the serum creatinine rose above 141 µmol/l then the dose was reduced by one third and the serum creatinine was measured again in several days . |
| 10 | The shift from manufacturing to service industries has been even more marked in terms of jobs : in 1950 manufacturing employed 35 per cent of the total in civil employment but this had fallen to 26 per cent by 1981 ; at the same time , jobs in the service sector rose from 47 per cent to 60 per cent of total employment . |
| 11 | Amongst party identifiers as a whole , the difference between Conservative and Labour optimism rose from 93 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 108 per cent by the end of the campaign . |
| 12 | In the period 1972–83 , government transfers to companies ( of which state enterprises absorbed about three-quarters ) rose from 8.8 per cent to 12.5 per cent of government expenditure . |
| 13 | Indeed , instead of declining , the effect of political interest on awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservative politicians actually rose from 32 per cent to 37 per cent between the Pre-Campaign Wave and the end of the campaign , and its effect on awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians declined only from 38 per cent to 34 per cent . |
| 14 | Unemployment rose from 2.3 per cent in 1965 to 3.8 per cent in 1967 . |
| 15 | In Spain , unemployment rose from 2.1 per cent in 1972 to over 17 per cent in 1982 . |
| 16 | Curiosity and partner 's use both fell dramatically from 44 and 50 per cent to 19 and 38 per cent respectively , whilst ‘ peer-group pressure ’ rose from 0 per cent in the known sector females to 24 per cent amongst the snowball sample females . |
| 17 | Inflation rose from 1.3 per cent in 1988 to 5 per cent in 1989 while the new Taiwan dollar was exchanged at US$1.00=NT$26.00 as against US$1.00=NT$40.00 in 1985 . |
| 18 | Gross income gearing ( gross interest payments as a percentage of post-tax income ) rose from 34 per cent to 37 per cent . |
| 19 | Within this the commodity composition showed a marked increase in engineering products which rose from 37 per cent in 1955 to 45 per cent in 1970 of total UK exports ; semi-manufactures ( including chemicals , textiles and metals ) fell from 30 per cent to 26 per cent because of the decline in textiles , while other manufactures remained fairly constant around 13 per cent and non-manufactures fell from 25 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 20 | The proportion actually rose from 2.4 per cent in 1970 to 20.3 per cent in 1990 . |
| 21 | The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level . |
| 22 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 23 | The population of council housing in Britain rose from 18 per cent in 1950 to 32 per cent in 1982 . |
| 24 | At the same time the effect of television viewing on public awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservatives rose from 11 per cent to 25 per cent while its effect on public awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians rose from 6 per cent to 18 per cent ( Table 7.10 ) . |
| 25 | Thus , for example , the proportion of men living alone who received a pension rose from 52 per cent at 80 years and over , to 61 per cent for those aged 65–69 , reflecting the growth in provision of occupational pensions between the early sixties when the oldest age-group left the labour force and the late seventies when the most recently retired left . |
| 26 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 27 | , A survey has shown that the number of major companies which have adopted corporate environmental policies rose from 41 per cent to 66 per cent in 1991 . |
| 28 | Within a declining overall level of grant , there has been a marked increase in the share targeted for particular purposes ( specific and supplementary grants rose from 17.6 per cent of the total grant in 1981/82 to 23.6 per cent in 1986/87 ( Douglas and Lord , 1986 , p. 29 ) ) . |
| 29 | Registered unemployment rose from 1.4 per cent in 1961–3 to 2.7 per cent in 1968 . |
| 30 | So labour 's share in the value of manufacturing output rose from 72 per cent in 1960 to 80 per cent in 1964 . |