Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , compared with the 1992 general election results , support for the DC dropped by 4.8 per cent , for the Socialists by 3.6 per cent and for the PDS by 1.9 per cent , while the Northern League increased its share of the vote by 3.4 per cent , La Rete by 2.7 per cent and the MSI by 1.7 per cent . |
| 2 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 3 | Chief Exec. up six per cent , Treasurer Department the same . |
| 4 | Bush won the Republican primary in South Carolina with 67 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 6 | With her bags , and eager to fulfil her life 's dreams through elopement , Catherine waits … in Washington Square of 1850 's New York at the height of fashion and sophistication . |
| 7 | Prominent critics of the left , by contrast , saw their votes rise : Robin Cook by 18 per cent , Bryan Gould by 12 per cent , Gerald Kaufman by 11 per cent . |
| 8 | The Conservatives ' position has improved considerably since Mr Major became Prime Minister but they were actually better placed relative to Labour when they lost to Harold Wilson in 1964. 1964AprilNow 1990 Conservatives best 45 35 45 Labour best 34 46 38 Tory advantage+1111 +7 |
| 9 | A Gallup Poll in August found only 31 per cent support for the United States with 49 per cent against . |
| 10 | higher that it was in 1979 while that in west Germany has risen by 26 per cent. , that in the United States by 32 per cent . |
| 11 | In 1979–83 manufacturing output declined in all regions , varying from -3.0 per cent in East Anglia to -19.3 per cent in the North West , -20.0 per cent in Wales and — 23.3 per cent in the West Midlands . |
| 12 | Inflation had slowed down in the United Kingdom to 5 per cent per year which produced a greater sense of economic security in terms of planning expenditures ahead . |
| 13 | Prominent critics of the left , by contrast , saw their votes rise : Robin Cook by 18 per cent , Bryan Gould by 12 per cent , Gerald Kaufman by 11 per cent . |
| 14 | Glenlomond Tweedsdale with electric radiant/convector fire Finally , for those desiring to close up a flue , or without a gas supply to their home , there is still the chance of enjoying the soothing glow of a ‘ open ’ fire with an electric flickering flame unit . |
| 15 | For the decade 1975–84 , the OECD ( Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) reported for the UK a decrease in total manufacturing output of 4.3 per cent , while virtually all the other major industrial nations increased their output ( though at a lower rate than before 1975 ) — Japan by 61.4 per cent , the USA by 41.6 per cent , Italy by 22.1 per cent , and West Germany by 16.0 per cent . |
| 16 | This is lower even than El Salvador with 2.5 per cent , and 4 to 5 per cent for other Central American countries in 1986 . |
| 17 | The United States House of Representatives had voted on May 22 to incorporate in a foreign aid bill ( which was , however , subsequently defeated ) a provision cutting military aid to El Salvador by 50 per cent , in protest at the failure of the authorities to prosecute the murderers of the priests . |
| 18 | In combination with the raids , the Israeli Army announced that it had increased the number of soldiers deployed in the West Bank by 20 per cent . |
| 19 | Prominent critics of the left , by contrast , saw their votes rise : Robin Cook by 18 per cent , Bryan Gould by 12 per cent , Gerald Kaufman by 11 per cent . |
| 20 | THE Bank of Scotland has announced that it is to cut the monthly rate of interest on its Classic Visa Card and Bank Mastercard from 1.8 per cent to 1.63 per cent . |
| 21 | House building has declined in Great Britain from 350392 per annum in 1970 to 198400 per annum in 1984 . |
| 22 | The documents indicate that shareholders can look forward to annual rises above the rate of inflation ranging from 3.2 per cent in the case of Severn Trent to 5.5 per cent for Northumbrian , North West and Yorkshire . |
| 23 | Yo first of all you must distinguish Northern Ireland from other ar territories in the world where there has been terrorism . |
| 24 | One reason for the sale is that when WH Smith bought the Canadian Classic bookshops chain in 1985 , doubling its outlets , it made an agreement with the Canadian government to reduce its holding in WH Smith Canada to 51 per cent by 1990 . |
| 25 | These range from 39 per cent at Wood Green to 69 per cent at Mold Crown Court , compared with an average of 51 per cent for first-tier Crown Courts as a whole ( NAPO , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | Well now I have in front of me my book that I wrote with Rachel Lowe about these erm these early film erm makers of Britain , and leafing it over I see some of the facts which lie behind the Brighton 's , Brighton 's contribution to this . |
| 27 | None at all , I mean he he when he saw John Cleese on that erm computer , said what 's that ? |