Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 2 | Under the current regime where tax credits are worth 25 per cent , this dividend will be grossed up inside the PEP to £100 . |
| 3 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 4 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 5 | Inflation has been above 11.5 per cent since 1983 , and reached 18.6 per cent in 1986 . |
| 6 | Young ( 1988 ) has , for example , noted that for local and national crime surveys , the response rate ( the proportion of individuals chosen for inclusion in a survey who actually complete a questionnaire ) has never been above 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Both estimates are within 10 per cent of experimentally determined values . |
| 8 | This is not to say that validity should be taken for granted : McBean and Lennon ( 1985 ) have shown that though for large groups , response rates of 50 per cent are adequate ; with groups of less than 30 , an 80 per cent response rate is required to give course ratings which are within 12 per cent of the mean for the population as a whole . |
| 9 | If the first and second valuation are within 15 per cent of each other an average will be taken of the two . |
| 10 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 11 | The electorate will expect to know who the candidates are in those er er particular constituencies . |
| 12 | At present , 40 per cent of our daily calories come from fat ; the ideal amount should be about 15–30 per cent |
| 13 | Now suspect that this is something that most people fall into on their first few training sessions which is all to be about this er er er have you got any questions and most people I was gon na say good morning , but you got a paragraph down now and it 's all about slowing down and you can speed up as you go through but it 's certainly the opening slowing down . |
| 14 | Some could be between 15 per cent . |
| 15 | If bound in our Galaxy they must be travelling at around 0.1 per cent the speed of light ; if bound within the Solar System ( as Earth is ) their velocity must be nearer 0–01 per cent that of light . |
| 16 | That proportion of the crop that can be eaten — or at least which is harvestable — is called the ‘ harvest index ’ ; and even with well-bred crops such as wheat , the harvest index is unlikely to be above 60 per cent . |
| 17 | The Tipperary trainer is reputed to be on 20 per cent of all Melody 's earnings . |
| 18 | Informally , the bank admits that if sterling was still in the ERM , the underlying rate of inflation could be down almost to zero now , but base rates would still be at 10 per cent , and the prospects for the economic growth and unemployment scarcely bear thinking about . |
| 19 | So this should be by eight per cent . |
| 20 | Fig. 6. 19 shows the improvement that can be achieved in 80/20 type files — those in which 80 per cent of the accesses are to 20 per cent of the records — for buckets holding one , two , three and four records over a wide range of packing densities , and Table 6.8 provides figures for a number of bucket sizes and packing densities . |
| 21 | According to Gallup , the Tories are on 38½ per cent , Labour 38 and the Liberal Democrats 20 . |
| 22 | Consider this : every time a writer/ performer sells an album , their royalty earns them around 60p ( assuming they are on 10 per cent ) . |
| 23 | United are on 25 per cent of any fee the Potteries team get for striker Mark Stein . |
| 24 | Retail sales here in the US were off 0.4 per cent in March , which spelled bad news for Libya . |
| 25 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 26 | ‘ When we went away interest rates were at 13 per cent , ’ Sir Ranulph commented unprompted . |
| 27 | In 1989-90 his 224 wins came at 35 per cent ; in 1990-91 230 winners were at 29 per cent . |
| 28 | The agreement represented an improvement on conditions in the UK , where , although pregnant women qualified for 40 weeks ' maternity leave , only six weeks were at 90 per cent of salary and 12 weeks were at £46.30 a week , and they had to have worked for at least two years ( five if part-time ) . |
| 29 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 30 | Current evidence suggests that the prevalence of this disorder is about 1 per cent for the population aged 65 — 74 and 10 per cent for those aged 71 + . |