Example sentences of "[verb] with a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 3 | Nurses , teachers , the police and local authority employees will be among those asked to make do with a 1.5 per cent increase in 1993 . |
| 4 | Staff should mark with a large *EC Summit under the column headed ‘ Purpose ’ . |
| 5 | Central London agents Cluttons estimate that for properties valued under £185,000 , it is now cheaper to buy with a 95 per cent mortgate than to rent . |
| 6 | The coupled Sepharose was packed in a 1.5 cm×1.3 cm column and carefully washed with a 50 mmol/l Tris/HCl , pH 8.0 , 0.15 mol/l NaCl buffer . |
| 7 | Employees ' contributions should begin with a 1 per cent contribution from the first £1.00 of earnings . |
| 8 | While other European countries ( not to mention the United States ) were struggling to comply with a 50 mg/litre nitrate limit , the minister revealed that Britain had once again discovered unique drawbacks to the proposed solution to pollution , which made the cure , as it were , worse than the disease . |
| 9 | Blood pressure was measured with a COPAL UA251 electronic automatic auscultatory blood pressure reading machine ( Surgleon Ltd , Brighouse , West Yorkshire ) . |
| 10 | The £78 million fund , managed by Murray Johnstone , achieved a 10.7 per cent return on net assets , compared with a 22.2 per cent rise in the Index over the same six-month period . |
| 11 | The return on assets works out at 1.8 per cent compared with a 3.75 per cent target set by the Government . |
| 12 | Gross national product ( GNP ) had risen by 5.3 per cent , compared with a 2.4 per cent rise in 1991 . |
| 13 | According to figures released by Miti in January 1990 , Japan 's industrial output increased by 5.9 per cent during 1989 , compared with a 9.5 per cent rise in 1988 . |
| 14 | The first volume of the annual GATT trade review , entitled International Trade 1988/89 and published on Sept. 15 , 1989 , reported an 8.5 per cent growth in the volume of global merchandise trade in 1988 , the most rapid increase since 1984 ( and compared with a 5.5 per cent increase in 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The UK has a 7 per cent of this market compared with a 5.5 per cent share of trade in goods . |
| 16 | At the same time the price of leaded petrol was increased by 55 per cent , compared with a 25 per cent rise for unleaded , and electricity prices went up by 15 per cent . |
| 17 | That , Mr Sampson said , gave rise for concern with a 15.7 per cent increase during the year , which compares with a 14 per cent rise for Scotland as a whole . |
| 18 | That compares with a 42 per cent increase in the average council house rent in Scotland since 1989 . |
| 19 | This compares with a 22 per cent increase over the same period last year |
| 20 | After Sky losses of up to A$250m ( £126.3m ) , analysts are forecasting net profits for the year to June 1990 of about A$370m , which compares with a reported A$464m for 1989 , excluding foreign exchange dealings . |
| 21 | Profits at Superdrug were little changed at £34.8 million , but the move to selling perfumes at discount prices was rewarded with a 2 per cent market share . |
| 22 | There are eight Aquafoil garments , made from various microfibre polyester fabrics chosen to suit the expected use of the garment and all coated with a breathable PU . |
| 23 | I think these have got to be slightly updated with a new er with the new rates that have come through , cos that was right on six four ninety two . |
| 24 | This contrasted with a 26 per cent owner-occupancy rate in the neighbourhood . |
| 25 | The company is expected to show encouraging profits in 1992 ( publishing should yield $ 330m , compared to $ 264m in 1991 ) , but is still burdened with a staggering $ 9bn debt as a legacy of the merger . |
| 26 | But he had worked with a big er in a great big firm and he then he branched out on his own you know . |
| 27 | Mr Taylor refused to blame the race row that greeted his adoption 18 months ago for his defeat by Mr Nigel Jones , who won with a six per cent swing to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | One of the members of the campaign , Richard McCance , stood as an openly gay candidate for Labour , winning with a 13 per cent swing a seat which the Tories had held for forty years . |
| 29 | According to one study based on data for 29 WFS countries ( Rutstein , 1983 , p.32 ) , among toddlers aged one year , this difference in spacing is associated with a 46 per cent higher mortality of those born less than 24 months after the earlier sibling . |
| 30 | Klein s work rests upon a moral and normative order which can either , as in the work of other object-relations theorists , become associated with a particular status quo in terms of family structure and roles , or else , if rechannelled , be used for a radical critique of these same institutions ( e.g. Frosh 1987 ) . |