Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were located mostly in two areas — launcher rockets ( primarily the Ariane programme ) , accounting for 50 per cent of the workforce and satellites for 45 per cent . |
| 2 | If that is the case for 50 per cent . |
| 3 | ( ii ) Wash embryos three times through warm M2 + BSA ( Table 5 ) then incubate them for 5–7 min in complement diluted between 1 in 5 and 1 in 10 in phosphate-buffered saline ( PBS ) . |
| 4 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 5 | English Nature is planning to draw up management plans for 80 per cent of the country 's estuary areas by the end of the decade , starting with the Mersey , Humber and Exe . |
| 6 | A turn-round time of 24 hours for 90 per cent of prescriptions is guaranteed and an extended range of frames offers a greater choice of fashionable designs and colours . |
| 7 | At present about 10 per cent of pregnancies in Britain are at risk of producing a genetically " diseased " baby . |
| 8 | A conscious decision was taken to devote a proportion of the R&T budget [ at present about 10 per cent ] to strategic work , the remainder being funded by the businesses . |
| 9 | The Company has been notified of the following shareholders between 3 per cent and 5 per cent : |
| 10 | Er there was not a lot of enthusiasm for this er th this guarding which went on you see , because everybody was in sympathy er with the cause of the republican government , the S the Spanish republican government . |
| 11 | This became known as the retail price index ( RPI ) plus K factor , where K varied for different water authorities between 3 per cent and 7 per cent . |
| 12 | The grant provides support for 90 per cent . |
| 13 | Local government elections loom in foreboding fashion during May , with the Northern Ireland Office hoping for evidence of decline in support for both Sinn Fein and Ian Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 14 | However , in some epithelia , such as the proximal renal tubule , the Na - -HCO 3 - co-transporter has a stochiometry of three HCO 3 - ions for each Na + ion . |
| 15 | A draft agreement containing proposals for 10 per cent of the total volume of a country 's textile imports effected under bilaterally negotiated MFA quotas in 1990 , to be brought under GATT rules as of 1992 , was still under discussion when the Uruguay Round was suspended in December [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 16 | Ramprakash , his Middlesex team-mate Phil Tufnell and Lancashire captain Neil Fairbrother have been put on ‘ lesser ’ contracts worth 60 per cent of the full deal . |
| 17 | The pursuers sued the defenders for 75 per cent of the price as damages , and the Sheriff found the defenders liable in damages . |
| 18 | This was followed by an attempt to thwart the deal by Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) , which made a partial bid for 26 per cent of British Caledonian 's shares in a proposed deal which also involved a complex financial restructuring package . |
| 19 | In return , the chairmen will want the PFA to drop their demands for 10 per cent of the TV revenue . |
| 20 | The government was unable to agree to any wage increases , despite union demands for 20 per cent rises , but as partial compensation higher subsidies would be given for rice , flour and other basic commodities , totalling R250,000,000 . |
| 21 | The Federation of Venezuelan Workers ( CTV ) and other trade union organizations on Nov. 7 staged a 12-hour general strike in support of demands for 30 per cent pay increases to keep pace with the cost of living , a reduction in the price of petrol , and changes in economic policy . |
| 22 | The London based Construction Industry Research and Information Association ( CIRIA ) , in a recent report on the French construction market , points out not only that the number of British housing starts is only 60 per cent of the French level , but also that ‘ individuals are clients for 50 per cent of dwellings and construction companies for 25 per cent . ’ |
| 23 | A working class composed of 60–70 per cent of the potential labour force confronts the 5 per cent of capitalists who own significant amounts of the means of production , but the picture is complicated by the two different intermediate categories , each accounting for 10–15 per cent of the population . |
| 24 | Records from Beachy Head , where systematic watching for passage raptores has been carried out , show marked passage peaks , May accounting for 87 per cent . |
| 25 | Market capitalisation of domestic equities listed throughout the world stood at £6 551 billion in 1989 , with European stock exchanges representing 23.1 per cent of the market capitalisation , and the ISE accounting for 30 per cent of European domestic equity capitalisation ( the largest proportion of any European country ) . |
| 26 | But they offer the worst rate of return , paying out around 30p in £1 after 40 per cent in duty and arts fund levy has been deducted . |
| 27 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 28 | For many of the owl species the variation is less , for example the barn owl sample range is 95–100 per cent , with a mean of 99 per cent , and similar levels of difference hold for the other bones and parts of bones . |
| 29 | However , ten-year-olds were not significantly different from the adults , with an overall success rate of 86 per cent , though the seven-year-olds were significantly poorer with a mean of 57 per cent . |
| 30 | Thirdly , it should be noted that the proportion of university graduates entering permanent employment itself varies from subject to subject ( see AGCAS , annual ) between about 40 and 75 per cent of all graduates in that subject , with a mean of 56 per cent ; the remainder go into short-term or overseas employment , further research or training , are unemployed or otherwise classified ( 1987 figures ) . |