Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also this week , Fininvest , the Italian master company of Silvio Berlusconi , disclosed a 1 per cent stake in Saatchi 's . |
| 2 | Delaporte Establishment — the nominee company which emerged earlier this week with a significant shareholding in merchant bank Morgan Grenfell — yesterday disclosed a 1.13 per cent Ferranti stake . |
| 3 | The New Era Housing Association has won a 100 per cent grant for a £245,000 six unit development at Derwent Park , Loftus . |
| 4 | BR plans more through services to Worcester and Hereford and has forecast a thirty per cent increase in passengers . |
| 5 | The OECD 's bi-annual economic report Outlook , released on Dec. 19 , set growth in industrialized nations in the second half of 1991 at a mere 1 per cent annual rate ; in July the OECD had forecast a 2.4 per cent annual growth for this period . |
| 6 | According to the latest survey by the BBC , schools have reported a 30 per cent increase in the numbers of youngsters being permanently excluded from schools across the eastern region . |
| 7 | Steve Cardownie , Labour recreation convener of the council , said officials had recommended a 2 per cent across-the-board cut for all the cultural grants . |
| 8 | Having spent £25,775 on computerisation , the doctors might reasonably have expected a 50 per cent . |
| 9 | Erm Harrogate er is a borough that 's enjoyed an enormous er growth in prosperity and economic activity during the erm exciting er yuppie years of Mrs Thatcher the mid eighties and erm er was indeed one of the I think one of the most wealthy boroughs , one of the highest economic activity rate levels , the Civic Society tell us in their papers it was paying the highest rates and all these sort of indicators , but with as so much of that period it turned out to be er a bubble and a chimera and er the borough has experienced some very severe erm er closures in recent years . |
| 10 | The lab has suffered a 40 per cent cut in its staff since 1975 . |
| 11 | Kingfisher 's latest published interim statement showed that Comet has suffered a 60 per cent fall in profits , ’ added Mr Kalms . |
| 12 | Has the predator selected a particular size/shape/colour variety of dog-whelk as prey ? |
| 13 | The doctors had their salaries increased by 50 per cent , while the teachers were granted a 20 per cent rise . |
| 14 | Farmers , the second largest car insurer in the state , had previously sought a 5.9 per cent increase to offset projected losses of about $100m on high-risk drivers . |
| 15 | Stories are circulating that Ford will announce it has built a 5 per cent shareholding early next week . |
| 16 | The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sept. 10 , 1989 , that it had imposed a 1 per cent increase in interest rates on savings deposits and bank loans , the first such increase for over eight years . |
| 17 | He said he 'd hung a papier mâché tray in its place so she 'd not feel the absence of the picture . |
| 18 | The West European chemical industry will probably have seen a 1 per cent increase in GDP in 1991 , Freeman added , compared to a forecast rise of 2.1 per cent . |
| 19 | The current year has seen a 25 per cent growth in student numbers , which will increase the total from the equivalent of 2,500 full-time students to more than 4,000 by 1995 . |
| 20 | The year had seen a 50 per cent increase in expenditure on acquisitions , in order to strengthen the Group 's activity base . |
| 21 | Statistics for the years 1975 to 1987 show an 18 per cent drop in the number of visitors to the palaces , while the National Trust has seen a 48 per cent rise . |
| 22 | They made a nice presentation made a nice er nice do with it and then they er quite a few there . |
| 23 | Murray also announced that it has made a 119 per cent gain on its holding in Yorkshire Food Group , which was floated in March after the first half ended . |
| 24 | Let's have a look at this , er well they 'd supposedly done weightlifting they 've made , they 've made a few er , they 've seemed to have done some alterations on it so they must have done that one , er wheelchair slalom |
| 25 | The United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered , also implicated in the scandal [ see pp. 38967 ; 39008 ] , was reported on Aug. 6 to have transferred an additional US$200,000,000 to meet liquidity shortages in its Indian operations . |
| 26 | Mr Gummer said last year had seen an 11 per cent recovery in farm incomes , there were encouraging signs for the future and farmers could be cautiously optimistic about the year ahead . |
| 27 | Mr Matthews said that UK food and drink exports to Canada had risen by 15 per cent since 1989 while those to the US had seen an 11 per cent lift . |
| 28 | The market has probably discounted a 0.5 per cent German increase which may allow UK base rates to remain at 14 per cent . |
| 29 | Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% . |
| 30 | Glasgow 's problems are merely a symptom of a wider malaise which has produced a 69 per cent rise in murders across most of the country and a 30 per cent increase in attempted murders . |