Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [num] [unc] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So even on this minimal change scenario , eliminating the imbalance in tabloid partisanship would be worth a 1 per cent swing to Labour . |
| 2 | Erm we believe that er where in cases of erm misappropriated or fraud , the compensation fund should be for a hundred per cent of what has gone . |
| 3 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 4 | You are more likely to be amongst the 35 per cent who only have one preference , or the 24 per cent who have two preferences , of the 20 per cent who have three preferences . |
| 5 | Kingfisher claims the combined company would have a market share of 22 per cent , though other estimates are that it would be above the 25 per cent threshold for a reference . |
| 6 | But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage . |
| 7 | Where differences in the patches were observed , the chi-square significance test was applied : a statistically significant result was taken to be at the 95 per cent level of confidence ( p=0.05 ) . |
| 8 | The forecasts were for a 28 per cent increase between 1983 and 1993 ( although the demographic shifts noted above may reduce this ) , and indeed by 1989 the increase was already 19 per cent . |
| 9 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 10 | Consequently , LEAs earmarking certain discretionary items in this way would still have to count them in calculating that they were within the 10 per cent limit . |
| 11 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 12 | of its payers are at the 20 per cent . |
| 13 | There is about an 80 per cent improvement rate after a relatively short course of treatment ( eight to ten weeks ) . |
| 14 | But the intention is for the 49 per cent Dutch government shareholding to be reduced later this year through an issue in Amsterdam , London , Frankfurt , Paris and New York . |
| 15 | Currently it is among the 10 per cent most solvent UK corporations in PAS-score terms . |
| 16 | Was for a thousand erm |
| 17 | The initial proposal was for a 60 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide and a 40 per cent cut in dust and NOx , on 1980 levels , by 1995 . |
| 18 | The present writer , who was not connected with the survey , estimated that there was about a 15 per cent non-Roman catholic element on the estate at the time . |
| 19 | A sharp slowdown in private housebuilding was behind a 9 per cent fall in new construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 , figures from the Department of the Environment indicated yesterday . |
| 20 | First , as a result of the negotiations by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor , there is considerably more flexibility now than there was with the 3 per cent . |
| 21 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 22 | I believe the engine was from a 1974 P6 3500S . |