Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 2 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |
| 3 | The programme was suspended in January 1991 because of the Gulf crisis , but in February legislation allowing for the 100 per cent privatization ( previously restricted to 49 per cent ) of companies in key sectors secured Parliamentary approval . |
| 4 | According to American projections , these actions will compensate for a 15 per cent increase in emissions of carbon . |
| 5 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 6 | She cruised through the 1930s ' red brick semis and the 1950s ' concrete estates on the east of the town . |
| 7 | All injections were given as a 200 µl bolus of neuropeptide Y ( Peninsula , Belmont , CA , USA ) dissolved in sterile 0.9% saline containing 0.1% dog albumin ( Sigma , St Louis , MO , USA ) or the carrier alone as control . |
| 8 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 9 | Envisaging a 4 per cent real growth in 1990 , it provided for a 10 per cent reduction in public expenditure , a wage increase for public employees , and the establishment of shops to sell basic items at low cost . |
| 10 | It provided for a 3.1 per cent increase in overall spending , to a total of F1,330,360 million , against a predicted inflation rate of 2.8 per cent ( US$1.00=F5.6999 as at Sept. 16 , 1991 ) . |
| 11 | I 've wondered whether we ought to separate but every time I bring this up , he cries and then worries about the 50 per cent of ‘ his ’ assets I 'll take with me if I do decide to go ! |
| 12 | Borders businesses are also likely to benefit as a 17 per cent reduction in water bills is planned . |
| 13 | Specialised materials , which Tootal promised would be an engine of growth , has yet to prove its worth , though continued heavy investment could be blamed for a 40 per cent fall in profits . |
| 14 | Again , quote Country Living when booking for a 10 per cent discount . |
| 15 | For these purposes a business or interest in a business does not qualify for the 100 per cent relief if the business consists wholly or mainly of dealing in securities , stocks or shares , land or buildings or of the making or holding of investments ( IHTA 1984 , s105(3) ) . |
| 16 | It is then assumed that these mortality measures correctly reflect more general health ( or morbidity ) differentials and , furthermore , that 10 per cent extra resources are needed to compensate for a 10 per cent excess risk . |
| 17 | These five conditions can be solved for the five π 's , giving : |
| 18 | This is in contrast to the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 where , although market purchases made before the posting of the offer document can not count towards the 90 per cent threshold , purchases afterwards may be counted provided they do not exceed the offer price . |
| 19 | Die Gruenen had dropped below the 5 per cent needed to enter the Bundestag in the last polls . |
| 20 | In the late 1989 and 1990 West German elections for the state legislatures , the Republicans ' support sank below the 5 per cent hurdle necessary for parliamentary representation . |
| 21 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 22 | The first one we 've had satisfaction on today , erm that new employ sorry existing employment land falling vacant and being redeveloped does n't count against the sixty hecst hectares , secondly that the borough if it wished , subject to the local plan process and er county structure plan policies could choose to put its sixt sixty hectares outside the city centres or in part , and then the third weight sir which much hover in the air I guess till tomorrow would be er the arrival of the strategic site policy which would be in addition . |
| 23 | He said the figures for the business rate were much better as expected with a 94.1 per cent collection rate and end of year shortfall of about £850,000 . |
| 24 | OURSTORY present material from a new book on lesbian and gay Brighton lives in the 50 's and 60 's to be published by QueenSpark Books . |
| 25 | Medium term uses such as electronics ( 10 per cent ) and cars ( 7 per cent ) take up a proportion , while other consumer durables and mechanical engineering uses are included in the 25 per cent going to ‘ other sectors ’ . |
| 26 | It must be remembered that in some countries many of the population are not formally educated in the three Rs , although they may be very educated in the ways of their culture . |
| 27 | The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period . |
| 28 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 29 | Up to five µl of the final cDNA synthesis reaction could be added to a 100 µl PCR reaction without inhibiting amplification . |
| 30 | After cooling , the mixture was incubated at 42°C for 60 minutes with 200 U of MMLV reverse transcriptase ( Bethesda Research Laboratories ) , 1 mM dNTPs ( United States Biochemical Crop. ) and 25 U of RNAsin ( Promega Biotec , Madison , WI ) in buffer ( 100 mM Tris HCl , pH 8.3 , 150 mM KCl , 6 mM MgCl 2 , 20 mM DTT ) The tubes were then heated to 95°C for 5–10 minutes , and 80 µl dH 2 O was added to the 20 µl of reaction mixture . |