Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among dozens of companies reporting yesterday was speciality chemicals group Laporte which reported a profits slide of ten per cent and saw its shares slip . |
| 2 | It would also be discrimination contrary to the Act if an LEA adopted an admissions policy of dispersing ethnic minority children . |
| 3 | To understand the qualitative features of the binding of GH5 to DNA , we have taken the structure of the CAP/DNA complex , and made a least-squares superposition of GH5 onto CAP on the basis of the sequence alignment in Fig. 4 . |
| 4 | For example , in October 1988 Polly Peck made a rights issue of 1 new share for every 4 held . |
| 5 | Shares in London 's water provider fell 7p to 485p in a rising stock market after the company announced a profits increase of just 5% to £124m to end-September . |
| 6 | ‘ I got a women member of the production team to have a discreet word with his wife . |
| 7 | The 1927 Cinematograph Act imposed a distributors quota of 7.5 per cent , and an exhibitors quota of five per cent , both rising to 20 per cent , but it did nothing in itself to shift the economic balance in favour of British producers . |
| 8 | Prosecution said a police search of a house in Mayo Street , Belfast on November 27 , 1990 , in which Wilson was present , uncovered a small amount of cannabis hidden in the kitchen waste bin . |
| 9 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 10 | By 1978 Britain , under Labour , was still in the EEC , the government had an incomes policy of sorts and had curbed the growth of public expenditure , and private education remained . |
| 11 | The increased frequency of the small fragment in the patients with gastric ulcer ( 36.1% ) compared with controls ( 19.4% ) , was statistically significant ( χ 2 , 23.83 ; p<0.005 ) , and it yielded an odds ratio of 2.35 ( 95% confidence limits , 1.37 to 4.02 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 12 | The increased frequency of the small fragment in patients with gastric body ulcer ( 44.6% ) , compared with controls ( 19.4% ) was statistically significant ( χ 2 = 16.20 ; p<0.005 ) , and it yielded an odds ratio of 3.34 ( 95% confidence limits , 1.83 to 6.12 ) ( Table II ) . |