Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While you provide the contrast as a proper femme fatale . ’ |
| 2 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 3 | Learning support for a specific child/children within the classroom . |
| 4 | Although hypothesis as a useful er sort of description of how farmers might erm adjust their supply it 's a very simple one alright . |
| 5 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |
| 6 | The wartime alliance had been followed by an occasionally hot ‘ cold war ’ and then , from the 1950s onwards , by a cautious search for a limited modus vivendi . |
| 7 | Many of our comrades in the hotel and catering industry work long and unsocial hours for as little as two ninety two an hour , a hundred and fourteen pound for a thirteen ho thirty nine hour week . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 9 | And certainly should not live under the rule of a foreign er power . |
| 10 | And fireworks are expected to fly as ministers battle to protect their cash plans in the light of a strict 244.5bn pounds spending limit . |
| 11 | This would range from total recovery to the maintenance of a vegetative status quo . |
| 12 | The receiver combines a 30 watts per channel amplifier with a 10-station AM/FM tuner . |
| 13 | Abulfez Elchibey , leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , was sworn in as President on June 16 , after receiving 59.4 per cent of the vote in a 76 per cent turnout in elections on June 7 ; there were five candidates in all . |
| 14 | I am not aware of any complaint of professional misconduct or disciplinary proceedings brought or to be brought against me in respect of any practice in a multi-national partnership/recognised body and I do not know of any cause for such proceedings to be brought . |
| 15 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 16 | However what I want to emphasize is that Residents ' Association 's case is not does not rely on an inner northern route acting as a an alternative to a western rel route . |
| 17 | What he envisaged was an access of " philosophical " seriousness : the positive alternative to a discredited status quo was " Schopenhauerian " . |
| 18 | The voluntary agreement commits the industry to a 50 per cent . |
| 19 | It was decided instead to adopt less strict targets for these areas and to tighten the target for the rest of the continent to a 60 per cent gap reduction . |
| 20 | At Gribba Head West , Nick Dixon has produced Pre Marital Tension at a mighty E6 71 , taking the arête of the buttress to claim Storms over Africa , E6 6c . |
| 21 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 22 | With a typical load resistance of a few kΟ , the magnitude of the signal voltage gain is around 100 . |
| 23 | The 1,013-hectare site at Great Haldon , near Exeter , is part of a larger 2,833-hectare forest which also supports many other birds of prey , including sparrowhawks , common buzzards , goshawks , kites and osprey . |
| 24 | Some ( e.g. relevant/irrelevant ) can be discussed only in terms of the implied criticism of the humanities , and are part of a larger arts/science contrast , and these will be dealt with in a later section . |
| 25 | On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |
| 27 | As well as competitive asking prices , Fairview offers a choice of cash benefits , including payment of legal fees and stamp duty , and the payment of a five per cent deposit or free management charges for a year . |
| 28 | Digital Equipment Corp is bringing forward to next month its agreed purchase of a further 4.03% stake in Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , doubling its 4.03% stake , which was bought directly from Olivetti 's controlling shareholders . |
| 29 | I mean we 've all , we 've all seen the results of any customer who 's a bit of a nervous so sort have n't we ? |
| 30 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |