Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 If the average per capita of land held in such does not exceed two hundred percent of the average per capita land held in the locality it shall remain untouched .
2 Although many countries satisfy PLAN 's eligibility criteria , Tanzania ranks extremely high in terms of having one of the lowest per capita GNPs , low life expectancy , low primary school enrollment rates .
3 Neutralisation still had conservative connotations ; it would encourage the stabilisation of the political status quo in the country or region concerned and impose restraints on the unilateral pursuit of Soviet interests at a time when national liberation movements were achieving success with Soviet assistance .
4 And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions .
5 Of the 55 per cent who knew of chlorine 's everyday uses , only three per cent were aware of its use as a hospital disinfectant and one per cent of its function in plastics manufacture .
6 Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID .
7 He was on his way to becoming a statistic , one of the sixty per cent of fathers who lose all contact with their children within five years of divorce .
8 The Acuerdo Patriótica ( AP — Patriotic Accord ) , an alliance of the left-wing Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria ( MIR — Movement of the Revolutionary Left , Oscar Eid Franco s. -g. ) , the right-wing Alianza Democrática Nacionalista ( ADN — Democratic Nationalist Alliance , Hugo Banzer Suárez l. ) , assumed power in August 1989 following the failure of any one candidate to win an outright majority in the presidential election on May 7 , 1989 [ see pp. 36652 ; 36845 ] .
9 The following are results of the major Grand Prix races prior to 1950 .
10 DAMON HILL 'S hopes of a place in the top two of the Canadian Grand Prix were wrecked by his own Canon Williams team when they bungled a crucial pit stop .
11 Erm the cash as and when it does start coming through from er from B-Sky-B and the fact that you 've actually er promised some of that to read in lieu of the increased er erm equity stake indirect equity stake .
12 Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the per cent band .
13 to move the resolution er that asks that the consideration be and the reinstatement of the general er er development order which would have the er and earlier for the planning application on the basis of er being mainly on friendly .
14 But if you are one of the 75 per cent who have decided against having an independent survey , then read on — you need this book more than anyone .
15 I give my warmest congratulations to the staff at Ormskirk hospital , which I visited in November 1989 for the turf-cutting for a new £32 million project which was a typical example of the 75 per cent .
16 The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact .
17 Also , for the purposes of the 75 per cent vote , there are disregarded shares held by any person whom the court regards as a promoter of the scheme .
18 Of the 44 per cent of the electorate who took part in the poll , 73 per cent supported the plant .
19 The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) .
20 The Turkish-Cypriot zone was allocated 28.2 per cent of the island , instead of the 37 per cent occupied at present .
21 It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method .
22 I mean , Mark 's got some great stuff of the sixties er er er , ex , ex movies of the so er trailers of ex movies , you know
23 The gracefully bowing form of the Japanese Hakonechloa macra ‘ Aureola ’ looks glorious anywhere and I also love the more subtle stripes in our native Molinia caerulea ‘ Variegata ’ .
24 Well known examples include the rare use of the 80–100 per cent range in arts and social studies and the full use of very high and very low marks in science and mathematics .
25 Success now was of the kind associated with Henry Pelham , who during his time at the Treasury from 1749 to 1757 rescheduled almost 90 per cent of the 4 per cent debt , down to 3.5 per cent in 1750 and down again to 3 per cent by 1757 .
26 Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock .
27 Holders of £500 to £1,000 worth formed 31.4 per cent of the East India stock hold-ers , 22.9 per cent of the Bank 's , 18 per cent of the South Sea Company 's and 19 per cent of the 4 per cent 's .
28 Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality .
29 It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years .
30 That takes no account of the 100 per cent .
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