Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 2 | Ministers will also have another look at planned quota increases for Italy and Greece and demands to restore the 4.5 per cent of the milk quota which was suspended in 1987 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The proportion of Sinhalese policemen passed the fifty per cent mark in the 1920s , and continued to rise thereafter . |
| 5 | Both Beckett and Gould are firmly of the view that Prescott 's vote will be squeezed , although , contrary to predictions , he easily passed the 20 per cent nominations mark . |
| 6 | It would be statistically misleading to headline the 500 per cent rise in the murder rate in Central Region , but the chief constable there can hardly be pleased to find the number of such incidents his force has dealt with rise from one to six . |
| 7 | Now what 's the the how have you calculated the five per cent erm reduction ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , none of the data really substantiated the imaginative tour de force of Gall and Spurzheim ( in Kolb and Whishaw 1985 ) who , at the turn of the nineteenth century , argued that the human cerebral cortex is subdivided into functional areas , each responsible for a different mental faculty . |
| 9 | A soft , chic style with classical waves using the professional Bain de Terre hair care range |
| 10 | If the injection pipette is renewed between operations , solutions can be injected using the simpler in vitro injection pipette . |
| 11 | With plant and equipment , the capital allowance is determined using the 25 per cent declining balance method ( over 8 years ) ; i.e. , the writing-down allowance is 25 per cent of the written-down value , as illustrated above . |
| 12 | The statement followed calls from the leadership of Apap — which is not affiliated to the Trades Union Congress — for fresh negotiations , after members on Wednesday voted by two-to-one against accepting the 9 per cent proposal . |
| 13 | The Government have abandoned any pretence that income support payments include an element that would cover the 20 per cent . |
| 14 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 15 | Market purchases will simply make the 75 per cent threshold more difficult to achieve . |
| 16 | It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 per cent grossing-up for the last time . |
| 17 | Anxieties about the START treaty and Russia 's financial capacity to meet its provisions , and also those of a more radical accord concluded with the USA in June [ see pp. 38985-86 ] , were compounded after the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Boris Gomov acknowledged that the government had thus far found only part of the funds needed to implement the 30 per cent cut in nuclear arsenals required under START . |
| 18 | This was the first piece of silliness : Comet already has 8.8 per cent and Dixons has almost 18 per cent — quite enough when merged to breach the 25 per cent ceiling which triggers a Monopolies Commission inquiry . |
| 19 | In the taxi she discovered that Ace had won the Spanish Grand Prix , but only just . |
| 20 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 21 | Of the two principal features of citizenship , political stability , including social harmony , was by far the most comprehensive and provided the fundamental raison d'être . |
| 22 | Although we do not presently know the functional in vivo sites for pou[c] binding , the results reported here strongly suggest that these sites should be related to the TAATGARAT- and/or degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs rather than the canonical octamer motif . |
| 23 | This inherent resistance to change is exacerbated by the low priority accorded by our law schools to the teaching of comparative law and , in England , by an unwillingness to grapple with foreign languages , itself both a cause and a consequence of English becoming the new lingua franca . |
| 24 | The pilots on Oct. 4 withdrew their pay claim and agreed to accept the 6 per cent national guideline agreed by the government and the trade unions , but the airlines refused to respond while the matter was before the arbitration commission . |
| 25 | Shares of its Hong Kong subsidiary were suspended , and after the market closed it was announced that Polly may buy the 30 per cent of the company it does not already own . |
| 26 | DIY giant Great Mills described the 12 per cent rate as ‘ suicidal ’ . |
| 27 | Nobody who was lucky enough to go to the city 's Usher Hall can have forgotten the splendid Dies Irae . |
| 28 | It is very difficult to meet the 3 per cent . |
| 29 | Within the lifetime of a future Labour Government — that is , within the next five years — we shall aim to meet the 0.7 per cent . |
| 30 | On its eastern side stands the grand Pabellón Real ( Royal Pavilion ) , facing the Ayuntamiento . |