Example sentences of "[noun] on a [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just completed work on a new two-and-three-quarter-ounce trout-rod , and had asked his brother , John , to try it out . |
| 2 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 3 | Inflation , the effects on your pension , you 've got the engineer on a level er annuity and the headmaster on er an index-linked annuity . |
| 4 | In the debate on a proposed Z$40,000,000 ( about US$8,500,000 ) allocation for the ministry , members of the House denounced it as a " completely useless " department and declared it to be the Ministry of Political Affairs ( which had been headed by Mutasa until its closure in June — ibid. ) under a different name . |
| 5 | Let the surface dry , then apply another coat of white stain mixed with matt polyurethane on a five per cent stain/ninety-five per cent polyurethane ratio . |
| 6 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 7 | Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics . |
| 8 | How , Mellor wondered , would the Lib Dems respond to the unlikely scenario of getting a working majority on a 33 per cent poll ? |
| 9 | The Cheltenham MP , Liberal Democrat Nigel Jones , says he won the seat at the General Election on a pro lib-dem , anti-tory vote … not because of a racist vote . |
| 10 | Bull had worked in the past on a joint US/Canadian High Altitude Research Project ( HARP ) , which had examined the possibility of firing missiles and rockets into space using a giant gun . |
| 11 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 12 | On the weekend of March 16-17 after a week of strikes the public-sector trade union ÖTV reached agreement with the federal government on a 6 per cent pay increase to be backdated to Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 13 | This sum is £1.30 ; in Birkenhead only 272 tenants pay less than this sum on a 20 per cent contribution . |
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| 15 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 16 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 17 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |