Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No no no no I just wanted to try a different s |
| 2 | They were the sort of looks which at one time , if indulged in by children who 'd outgrown toddlerhood , could be guaranteed to attract a resounding ding around the ear and the terse instruction : ‘ Take that look off your face . ’ |
| 3 | Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six per cent pay cut . |
| 4 | The involvement of the ministry led Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to accept a 10 per cent cut in his salary for three months in order to assume responsibility for the scandal . |
| 5 | However , 19 regional unions at the state oil company PETROBRAS were reported to have voted to accept a 98 per cent increase . |
| 6 | Equally , employers in the wool and worsted industry , having failed to get wage reductions in 1929 , forced the textile unions to accept a 9 per cent reduction in wage rates in June 1930 , after a ten-week lock-out . |
| 7 | er in other words what I 'm saying is that erm a woman does n't have to accept a fertilized er egg once it 's been fertilized . |
| 8 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 9 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 10 | The so-called Winter of Discontent ( 1978–9 ) generated even more anti-trade-union sentiment , especially as Labour 's attempt to establish a 5 per cent pay norm led to strikes by lorry drivers and the low paid and produced television scenes of ‘ mountains ’ of uncollected refuse ( Scraton , 1985b ) . |
| 11 | This could be the necessary catalyst to establish a full U17 County programme . |
| 12 | An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan . |
| 13 | Latest tests seem to indicate a 100 per cent correlation between certain modes of abduction imagery and the way the subject was born . |
| 14 | The USA had threatened to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory import tariff on some $165,000,000-worth of Japanese personal computers every year , unless Japan took action to implement the 1986 agreement ; it had , however , eventually agreed to give Japan another 18 months , until the end of 1992 , in which to build up US imports to the agreed 20 per cent market share . |
| 15 | In the Labour party , as in the TUC , the policy to impose a 5 per cent norm had provoked much fury , and the party conference in October heavily rejected the policy , even though Callaghan and Healey made it clear that they would ignore the views of the delegates . |
| 16 | However , Democrats in the House , led by the chairman of the Ways and Means committee , Dan Rostenkowski , drew up a plan to raise from 28 per cent to 33 per cent taxes on the most wealthy and to impose a 10 per cent surtax on incomes of more than $100,000 . |
| 17 | School chiefs in Somerset — where the experiment is taking place — also plan to impose a little je ne sais quoi on the kids ' Aussie heroes in Neighbours . |
| 18 | On May 2 the European Communities ( EC ) pledged US$12,000,000 and on May 14 agreed to provide a further US$67,000,000 in emergency aid . |
| 19 | The Guardian of Aug. 2 reported that the government was to provide a further Fl650 million for energy conservation in addition to the Fl1,000 million already allocated annually for the programme . |
| 20 | If anything I think women 's education now has to compensate a little erm and provide for those areas in which women start in a way that could be considered a handicap to men . |
| 21 | Calmodulin affinity chromatography has also been used to purify a related 63K/240K channel complex from pig and rat ROS membranes . |
| 22 | Obviously , to obtain a five per cent operating profit margin means they are marking up the cost price of products by far more than five per cent . |
| 23 | We 're already gearing-up to launch a brand-new(ish) C64 action magazine onto the market — COMMODORE FORCE — but in the meantime we 're going to bow out gracefully by bringing you the ZZAP ! er 's guide to reincarnation . |
| 24 | But nevertheless , we do n't necessarily always need to observe a positive erm , a positive relationship between own price and er , quantity supplied . |
| 25 | Yesterday was the deadline for Bond Corp 's 58 per cent owned subsidiary , Bell Resources , to pay $24m to Corona Corporation , the Canadian gold group , to satisfy an option agreement under which Bell Resources was due to purchase a 7 per cent stake in Bond International Gold from Corona . |
| 26 | Parties had to exceed a 5 per cent threshold of votes in either the Czech Lands or Slovakia in order to win seats ; votes for unsuccessful parties were redistributed proportionally among successful ones . |
| 27 | Alternatively , you could partition off part of a large bedroom to create a small en suite bathroom or shower room . |
| 28 | A point missed in last week 's story on DEC 's effort to design a single 1GHz chip is that the cooling agent is a mixture of water and alcohol ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 29 | After the Nov. 12 march talks took place between student leaders , Mitterrand and Education Minister Lionel Jospin , and the government on Nov. 14 announced plans to allocate a further F4,500 million francs to improve conditions in schools , and also to employ more teachers and to improve security . |
| 30 | While the Council refused to accept Pérez de Cuéllar 's recommendation to allow Iraq to sell a further US$800 million of oil to avert the imminent food and health crisis foreseen by UN aid agencies [ see pp. 38361 ] , it left open the possibility of further increases . |