Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 A man left paralysed from the waist down after a parachuting acce accident two years ago , attempts the World 's first solo paraplegic sky dive .
2 Daughter Laura weighed in at a healthy 61b 4oz .
3 American banks will have to write down by a further 10–20% their medium- and long-term loans to Brazil and Argentina , increasing pressure on the second-quarter earnings of some of the big banks .
4 that 's something else which you might find , a lot of the time in er literature about interaction with children , you might find that er where parents are asking their children to do something , like if they 're playing a game , you might find some You 'll find that mothers and fathers talk differently to sons and daughters er so you start off with a direct ac action like Put that one there , if they 're playing lego or something , straight prom Put that on there down to er Would n't it be a good idea to put that on there down to Could you put that on there or Let's put it on there .
5 The new League kicked off with a 25 per cent drop in attendances compared with the old First Division a year ago .
6 To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector .
7 Dressing up as a 50 's teenager is encouraged but by no means compulsory and any man dusting off his dad 's winkle pickers gets an award for merit !
8 The revised output figures , confirming an 0.2 per cent rise in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of last year , made up of a 6.3 per cent rise in oil and gas production , a static service sector , and falls of 0.2 per cent in manufacturing , 0.8 per cent in construction and 1 per cent in farming , provided little fresh inspiration .
9 In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% .
10 A and I can get er Ken and my clerks to ferret through the old contracts , and all the variations that we 've had to date , and come up with a suggested erm latest remit for the project coordinator to approve .
11 Other lenders may advance 95 per cent of the purchase price and then top it up with a five per cent loan from an insurance company .
12 The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate .
13 The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate .
14 The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate .
15 or come up with a whole so whole position .
16 It kind of builds Gandhi up into a great er figure , as it were , ignoring his feet of clay , erm , which he definitely had .
17 foot size is a two , they usually end up in a three erm in flat shoes like this for the width I 've got very big feet
18 Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year .
19 Inevitably difficult calvings cause a whole range of problems and here Mr Barwise-Munro remarked : ‘ Up to 2.5 per cent of first calving heifers involved in such circumstances die but with those which survive , many will suffer up to a 10 per cent drop in milk yield and consequently weaning weight of calves will be lower and of course there can also be major fertility problems in getting the cows back in calf . ’
20 Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit .
21 But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate .
22 If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering .
23 That came back through a separate AC30 so they could both distort to their hearts ’ content and not interfere with each other .
24 Only around Rbs18,500 million out of a required Rbs54,000 million had been contributed by the republics in the first quarter of the year [ for passage in January of 1991 union budget see p. 37970 ] .
25 I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter .
26 If you get a forty percent turn out in a local elect within England yeah ?
27 I tried it out on a modest 386SX and it still felt fast on a big test database .
28 Playing at volume , the FGM proves itself capable of dishing out the dirt , the Dual Sound humbucker retaining its tone and not thinning out to a tuneless buzz .
29 And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent .
30 Right , well we 're on to a we 're on to a new er a new era , a different erm different angle .
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