Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ensuring the honesty of those supplying services and advice has been the main raison d'être for regulation . |
| 2 | Does the Minister agree that those mainly affected by the MacSharry proposals are the 3 per cent . |
| 3 | Still more Italianate are the three Livres de chansons ( 1576–8 ) of-Antoine de Bertrand ( d. c. 1581 ) , whose harmonic daring carried him beyond chromaticism to consider the ad libitum use of microtones . |
| 4 | But in essence they 're the main er er the main aspects of er of of er what was meant by liberalism in the er in in er the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | For example , one woman who was prominent in a demonstration against the removal of crucifixes was heard to shout out : ‘ I am a hundred per cent Hitler supporter and have been a National Socialist since 1923 . |
| 6 | I am a hundred per cent legal these days . ’ |
| 7 | Lucy had n't been a hundred per cent sure with Charlie , but here she felt certain . |
| 8 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 9 | Only Hungary — a superbly well managed economy by CMEA standards — has taken the plunge and restored direction to its flagging reform efforts ( a direct consequence of which has been a 79 per cent increase in the consumer price index between 1979–1983 ) . |
| 10 | There has also been a 10.1 per cent . |
| 11 | In Gloucestershire there 's been a sixty per cent increase in the number of attacks on police women . |
| 12 | Will the Minister confirm that since 1979 there has been a 37 per cent . |
| 13 | According to preliminary results announced on April 1 , with only two of the 71 constituencies undeclared , there had been a 90.5 per cent turnout of the around 3,400,000 registered electors , of whom 98.93 per cent had voted " yes " . |
| 14 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 15 | There has been a 26 per cent . |
| 16 | As was pointed out to him in that interview , this year there has been a 7.1 per cent . |
| 17 | ‘ The lessons are available to everyone and there has been a 75 per cent take up , ’ said , marketing services manager and one of the participants . |
| 18 | Nationally there has been a 12 per cent drop . |
| 19 | We could then have enjoyed benefits such as those evident in Southend — where there has been a 9 per cent . |
| 20 | There has been a 600 per cent . |
| 21 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |
| 22 | There has been a 30–40 per cent reduction in the amount of fat on pigs over the last 10 years , ’ says Professor James . |
| 23 | The result has been a 51 per cent reduction in waste with the added benefits of lower energy and water consumption , a drop in carbon dioxide emissions and a saving of US$1 million a year in operational costs . |
| 24 | In other words between 1974 and 1988 there had been a 25 per cent reduction in the proportionate use of fines and a corresponding 25 per cent increase in the proportionate use of imprisonment . |
| 25 | The move seemed intended to protect domestic supply — there had been a 25 per cent fall in production in the first half of 1991 [ see p. 38492 ] . |
| 26 | I do not doubt the figures and I welcome the fact that , on average , there has been a 33 per cent . |
| 27 | Is the Minister aware that since 1988 in the city of Liverpool there has been a 48 per cent . |
| 28 | According to the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) there had been a 3 per cent decline in the ozone layer , at all except equatorial latitudes , during the last decade . |
| 29 | But Mr Bowman said Home Office figures showed there had been a 43 per cent reduction in crime by under-14s . |
| 30 | Since 1961 there has been a 19 per cent decrease in the mortality rates for males aged 65 — 74 . |