Example sentences of "[noun] with a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) . |
| 2 | Manchester City ( £5.48 ) offered the cheapest average top-flight entrance fee , while near-neighbours Oldham hit their supporters with a 67 per cent increase to an average £6.39 , after winning promotion . |
| 3 | It is possible that the younger control subjects with a high LI% may develop an adenomatous polyp as an ageing phenomenon . |
| 4 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 5 | The receiver combines a 30 watts per channel amplifier with a 10-station AM/FM tuner . |
| 6 | Often schoolchildren aged in their early teens , who struggle through a reading test with a 15 per cent error rate , reduce errors to 2 per cent and increase confidence visibly on first meeting a rule-based spelling . |
| 7 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 8 | The Alliance prospered with the demise of the Conservatives , taking eight more seats with an extra .8pc of the vote . |
| 9 | That car became the Corvette Indy — a sensational prototype with a mid-mounted LT5 turbo engine , four-wheel drive , active suspension , and a ‘ twin-chassis ’ structure . |
| 10 | Drawing attention to the cost of UN peacekeeping operations in the last 12 months , estimated to total US$3,000 million , Boutros-Ghali urged members to reflect on the organization 's financial crisis , prompted by outstanding dues totalling US$908,000,000 in regular contributions with a further US$845,000,000 due in peacekeeping contributions . |
| 11 | A little light relief was planned for the Saturday evening with an unofficial K4 500m race for trainers . |
| 12 | With less than six weeks to go to the Olympic trials , Read , the triple national champion , boosted her confidence by lowering her own eight-month-old 50m backstroke British record with an impressive 30.06sec . |
| 13 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 14 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 15 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 16 | A volcanic crag with a superb wo wood face to is with many footpaths through it . |
| 17 | Although the precise mechanism by which K + moves from cell cytosol to the lumen of the gastric gland is unclear , a number of mechanisms that link apical K + and Cl - transport have been proposed namely — solely electroneutral KCl cotransport , electroneutral KCl cotransport in parallel with a large Cl - conductance , K + movement by a population of K + -specific channels in parallel with apical Cl - channels , and simultaneous K + and Cl - movement mediated by an apical cotransporter with partial conductive properties . |
| 18 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 19 | The US had agreed to provide Israel with an additional US$700 million in military grants , for 1991 only , to offset extra costs caused by the Gulf War . |
| 20 | Calculate the issue price of a new two-year bond with a 10 per cent coupon . |
| 21 | This is the price that a bond with a 9 per cent YTM will have on the next coupon payment date . |
| 22 | Consider a UK government bond with a 9.25 per cent coupon . |
| 23 | ‘ I gather you 've had some contact with a young MI5 officer called Robert Urquhart ? ’ |
| 24 | And then again , ignorance er , at what she should subsequently have done er , then took over because she did n't realise that by having had er made contact with an individual erm it was necessary for her to report the matter to the police and she just did n't realise that that was something that she should have done . |
| 25 | For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate . |
| 26 | For both techniques , it is useful to dissolve the polymer initially in a poor solvent with a large χ 1 value . |
| 27 | HTV Group , the Swansea-based Independent Television contractor and fine arts dealer , beat all City forecasts with a 25.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £18m in the year to 31 July . |
| 28 | A further meeting in April , at which the London Club steering committee rejected a Nigerian proposal to convert outstanding loans into 30-year bonds with a 3 per cent interest rate , was followed by the announcement that Nigeria intended unilaterally to cut interest payments on some of its debt to that level , from the agreed level of 9.5 per cent , with effect from May 1 . |
| 29 | This figure would include $800,000,000 in commercial credits , $400,000,000 in soft loans with a 1.75 per cent interest rate , repayable over 20 years , and $80,000,000 in social credits . |
| 30 | The Β 1 subfamily comprises at least eight related complexes , each consisting of a Β 1 chain with a distinct α chain companion . |