Example sentences of "[vb past] with [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 During February a number of key industrial companies announced forthcoming contraction and redundancies , reflecting the continued rise in unemployment ( to a seasonally adjusted level of 9.2 per cent in January compared with 6.7 per cent a year earlier and 5.7 per cent at the beginning of 1990 — see also p. 38200 ) .
2 of young people entered higher education in Great Britain compared with 26.5 per cent .
3 Single person pensioner households now represent 16 per cent of all households in Britain compared with 7 per cent in 1961 ( CSO 1990 ) .
4 As long ago as 1869 , W. S. Jevons prepared a memorandum for the British Treasury , estimating that the tax rate was 10.1 per cent for a family with expenditure of 40 per annum compared with 9.0 per cent for a family with 500 ( Roseveare , 1973 ) .
5 Granulocytes and mononculear cells produced concentration dependent relaxations of circular smooth muscle precontracted with 10 µM/l acetylcholine ( figs 1 and 2 ) .
6 Preincubation with staurosporine alone enhanced the cyclic AMP responses in HGT-1 cells incubated with 0.5 mmol/l histamine for five minutes at 20°C by 36 ( 7 ) % ( Table I ) .
7 He thus began with 80 per cent of the voting shares and all the non-voting shares .
8 These two NH 2 -terminal fragments co-chromatographed with intact RAP74 in anion-exchange or gel filtration columns and were detected by immunoblot ( data not shown ) .
9 To assess binding activity , LC stained with biotin-conjugated M5/114 and streptavidin-RED613 ( Gibco BRL ) were suspended in calcium-containing HBSS , 1% BSA , and allowed to adhere to confluent fibroblast or KC monolayers in 24-well culture plates 6x10 4 LC in 1ml per well ( d ) or 5x10 4 LC in 0.2ml per well ( e ) ) .
10 The only candidate who totally rejected the proposals , the right-wing businessman Paschal Paschalides , was defeated in the first round , which Mr Vassiliou won with 44.15 per cent of the vote .
11 In Virginia , Mr Clinton won with 52 per cent , to 36 per cent uncommitted and 12 per cent for Mr Jerry Brown , the ex-California Governor , and his only rival .
12 In a separate presidential election on Dec. 9 the Socialist Party leader and incumbent Serbian Presidency President Slobodan Milosevic won with 65 per cent of the vote , defeating 30 other candidates .
13 The Socialist Party ( Partido Socialista — PS ) emerged with 32.3 per cent as the largest party , attributed partly to government unpopularity but also to the emergence of Jorge Sampaio , elected PS secretary-general in January 1989 [ see p. 36945 ] , as a credible successor to Mário Soares at the party 's head and to electoral pragmatism which enabled the party to broaden its base .
14 Hubbed spines accented with precious 22kt gold .
15 With its loud , luscious harmonies , raunchy guitar and full brass band , the record is commercial country blues peppered with lyrical bons mots and that female troubadour sensibility .
16 The medium was replaced with fresh antibiotic free medium with D-mannose ( 1% ) and inoculated with 25 µl of an overnight culture of each E coli isolate grown in peptone water with D-mannose ( 1% ) .
17 Er we started off the year with er a current account balance of two hundred and thirty three pounds ninety four and we ended with two er three hundred and twenty seven pounds twenty nine pence .
18 0.5–5 pmol of the first oligonucleotide ( Figure 1 ) were annealed at the polylinker of single stranded M13mp18 ( 400 ng M13mp18 DNA , Gibco BRL , Life Technologies GmbH , Berlin , FRG ) by an incubation of 2 min at 70°C in a total volume of 100 µl buffered with 1 REACT2 ( Gibco BRL ) .
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