Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Helsinki in 1985 , the ‘ 30 per cent Club ’ became official with a 30 per cent Sulphur Protocol to the Convention . |
| 2 | Towels are kept warm on a 1930s ' heated rail which was rescued from a hotel in Manchester , and Sally stores her cosmetics in an elegant Regency mirror-on-stand . |
| 3 | I am grateful for my hon. Friend 's second point , because it is not yet widely understood by the three quarters of people who go into retirement with savings of their own that , as they approach retirement , their ability to build up those savings would be subject to a 9 per cent . |
| 4 | So we have two phenomena here , one of which is gating , the opening and closing in a simple on a simple er in simple response to a stimulus , but also we have a phenomenon of inactivation , in which the channel is left in a state where it 's unable to respond . |
| 5 | I 'm , I 'm rather disappointed that erm neither the Conservatives or the Labour Party are prepared to support a reasonable erm er reasonable plan because erm the , the Chairman is not certain plan which is represented by ourselves , Brian and Michael are routing very , very hard for a regional er airport whilst in fact that National Airport as passing along with a , a National Road er transportation strategy and everything else you can think of . |
| 6 | sickening for a cold erm |
| 7 | ML 95 and Lys. xxxiii.7 ) for pre-Leuktra Sparta as a physical entity is aporthetos , unravaged , and that was true ( and most unusual for a Greek polis ) . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're comfortable with a 30 per cent position in Hong Kong , ’ Mr MacLeod said . |
| 9 | It 's not felt that your private life in terms of your political opinions will necessarily impinge on your public life , and , and to deprive somebody of the right to express their opinions in public would be regarded as an infringement of his civil liberties , which would be unthinkable in a republican erm situation . |
| 10 | Pendle , the Lancashire marginal where the poll tax was a major issue in the campaign , fell to Labour with a five per cent swing . |
| 11 | In response to government options presented to them , the banks agreed to ( i ) exchange US$6,600 million of old debt for new 30-year government bonds carrying a fixed interest rate of 6.75 per cent underwritten by the United States Treasury ; ( ii ) repurchase $1,500 million of debt instead of the $7,000 million the government had requested ; ( iii ) provide $5,700 million in fresh loans for investment in development ; ( iv ) the exchange of old debt for new government bonds offering temporary reductions in interest rates on $2,500 million ; ( v ) new bonds offering $1,630 million equal to a 30 per cent reduction in principal . |
| 12 | Predictably , a modern dynamic range benefits both the thrilling theatre of that invocation ( culminating in a triple forte cry of ‘ Printemps ’ as powerful as anything in The Rite ) , as well as the still calm of Persephone 's spoken lines rolling off the tongue with all the grace and ease exclusive to a native française , in this case Anne Fournet ( daughter of the conductor , Jean Fournet ) . |
| 13 | As for the precise methods that they use , there is no reason why these should be any different from the machinations — all too predictable to a selfish gene/extended phenotype theorist — of viruses . |
| 14 | Today , weeds are responsible for a 12 per cent reduction in the world 's harvests . |
| 15 | The population of England and Wales was undergoing a further massive increase — nothing short of a fifty per cent rise in the years from 1801 to 1831 — and the effects of the recent Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions hardly needed a post-war depression to make matters even worse for the poor . |
| 16 | The only IR bands without Raman counterparts should be due to a 2 ' modes . |
| 17 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 18 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 19 | Conventionally this data has only been available from a separate source/data base . |
| 20 | The second puppy open looks like being a contest between Robinson 's Just Right Kyle , which won an open at Nottingham on January 27 and Graham Calvert 's Ruffside Rock , successful in a recent A3 race at Sunderland . |
| 21 | Have to keep our eyes open for a decent er path cutter , hedge cutter you know ? |
| 22 | The womb split open like a green horse=chestnut |
| 23 | Between 1950 and 1960 the Indianapolis 500 was included in the championship but it was rare for a European Grand Prix driver to compete in the race , and vice versa . |
| 24 | You know , you do n't go from a , a one-up two-down to a two-bedroomed bung semi-bungalow and then shoot to a four-bedroomed detached . |
| 25 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 26 | Those resources are equivalent to a 44 per cent . |
| 27 | At that price an annual payment of £10 would be equivalent to a 20 per cent rate of interest . |
| 28 | Whether because of Portuguese blood , or because of Portuguese influence , every visitor is aware of a Mediterranean douceur de vie — a quality apparent in Goans ' three-hour siestas , and in their exceptional courtesy and serenity . |
| 29 | [ For internal convertibility of the koruna resulting in a 14.3 per cent devaluation see p. 37974 . ] |
| 30 | We do operate a customer loyalty scheme , whereby any existing borrower who moves home and remortgages with us is entitled to a one per cent discount for one year . ’ |