Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am absolutely confident that in this case the 50 per cent . |
| 2 | For milk the 2 per cent quota cut remained as proposed . |
| 3 | To be fair , he echoed his party 's line when he said that of course the 20 per cent . |
| 4 | You referred to the ex-parliamentary stars , President the budding prima donnas well I should , I would suggest that they ought to go away and look at their roots . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind the commercial raison d'etre of the court , there was a case for paying its judges more than those in other divisions . |
| 6 | Dr Michael Foxley , regional councillor for Mallaig , Ardnamurchan and the Small Isles , has written to the Scottish Office 's local government finance group expressing ‘ great concern ’ at the effect the 50 per cent discount on second homes might have . |
| 7 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 8 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 9 | If property is given away and the taxpayer reserves a benefit the 100 per cent relief should still be available provided certain conditions are satisfied . |
| 10 | For example , virtually all university lecturers , if asked to choose concerning next year 's pay between two deals , the first being this year 's pay ( adjusted for inflation ) and the second a 50 per cent random chance of nothing and 50 per cent chance of double this year 's ( inflation-adjusted ) pay , would opt for the former . |
| 11 | Although the land tax assessment could at times be stretched to include houses , windows , servants , hair powder , non-working horses , carriages and playing cards , and although in times of war the 10 per cent peacetime limit was pushed twice as far , there was no fundamental revaluation and in many parts of the country assessment levels were nominal . |
| 12 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 13 | ADT , the security systems and car auctions group , has spent £74m building a 4.2 per cent stake in BAA , the old British Airports Authority , up 2p at 337p . |
| 14 | Lauda crops up again in Maurice Hamilton 's informative tome The British Grand Prix , an absorbing record of this country 's most important fixture on the international racing calendar . |
| 15 | There is plenty of time for hon. Members to make speeches , and if I can develop my argument a little en route , I shall be happy to do so . |
| 16 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 17 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 18 | For the not-quite-so-intrepid paddler a special de luxe set of hippo eyes is available , at an extra cost , of course . |
| 19 | Three important areas of IHT planning concern the 100 per cent farming and business relief , deeds of variation and the normal expenditure out of income exemption and some points with respect to these are discussed below . |
| 20 | Also issued on Oct. 26 , a decree granted foreign investors ( individual or corporate ) the right to set up on Soviet soil a 100 per cent foreign-owned enterprise , or to buy a shareholding in existing Soviet enterprises . |
| 21 | A spokesman for Glenlight said without the subsidy a sixty-six per cent increase in freight charges would have been passed on to clients from tomorrow . |
| 22 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 23 | Not that Ciesinski , 37 , is in any way a typical prima donna . |
| 24 | Next year an 8 per cent tax would be levied on bills and the following year that would more than double to 17.5 per cent . |
| 25 | By the time the British Grand Prix begins on Sunday , motor-racing enthusiasts will outnumber villagers by almost 70 to one . |
| 26 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 27 | However , if untraceable shareholders ( plus dissenting shareholders ) exceed that percentage and the procedures can not be implemented by the offeror as a result , the offeror will have to make an application to court under s430C ( 5 ) for an order for leave to give notices under s429 , despite the fact the 90 per cent threshold has not been reached . |
| 28 | It has given my mother a complete raison d'être , since she was n't of the generation that had careers or outside interests to involve themselves in . |
| 29 | The CPRE believes that enough land has already been provided for in the Structure Plans of the south east to meet these requirements and that there is in fact a 38 per cent over-supply of land . |
| 30 | The MTFS in 1980 planned for a reduction in public spending of 5 per cent over the next four years ; there was in fact an 8 per cent growth in real terms . |