Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is that for the actual three hund |
| 2 | The VAT row gathered pace when the Treasury , after a series of Commons exchanges , confirmed that more than five million pensioners and others on low income will not be compensated in full for the planned 17.5 per cent rise in domestic fuel bills in 1995 . |
| 3 | I think we should press for the International Olympic er Committee to look at their rules and see that er to ensure that you can not buy the Games , you , you win the Games on merit . |
| 4 | For the other forty per cent I offered to go and collect him and as there were no other takers , I got the job . |
| 5 | Hebes make a good long-term window box plants ; look out for the silvery blue-green Hebe Pinguifolia , ‘ Pagei ’ . |
| 6 | For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months . |
| 7 | For the remaining 5 per cent of the year , they are allowed to exceed the standards by an unlimited amount . |
| 8 | The new ruling will keep the 95 per cent rule , but for the remaining 5 per cent of the time a new , tighter standard will be set . |
| 9 | They say that if you take one in five children , that 's twenty per cent of children , that probably eighteen per cent of children with special needs can be dealt with in ordinary schools and that there would still be need for special facilities for the remaining two per cent . |
| 10 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 11 | The current trend towards ever higher emissions would be curbed by energy conservation ( accounting for around 43 per cent of the required reduction ) and a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy ( accounting for the remaining 57 per cent ) . |
| 12 | The examination , counting for the remaining 60 per cent , is based on questions relating texts to the overview given in the core : text in context . |
| 13 | The first stage of the transition to market prices would mean dividing prices into three categories : by the end of 1991 only 55 per cent of goods would be sold at fixed state prices , 30 per cent would be " regulated " , and prices for the remaining 15 per cent of goods would be freed completely . |
| 14 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 15 | ‘ The team 's suspension system has been identical for the past 22 Grands Prix , that is since the beginning of the 1992 world championship . |
| 16 | Mums and dads , on the other hand , have to muddle through this supreme test of parentship more or less on their own — except for the inevitable mock-exam post mortem . |
| 17 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 18 | The federal government 's 75 per cent share in Usiminas was sold for US$1,170 million , mostly to Brazilian investors ; the share of foreign capital accounted for a disappointing 5.9 per cent of the total . |
| 19 | His prophecy had proved to be correct , for the trade he brought her way currently accounted for a good thirty per cent of her income . |
| 20 | The evening paper flung aside violently and scattering into its separate half-dozen sheets accounted for a good fifty per cent of the chaos . |
| 21 | This would be enough for a safe 250 nm at 75% power or 290 nm at 65% . |
| 22 | IBM Corp is using the show inter alia to announce that it has equipped all 30 models of its ValuePoint line with multi-media technology , which will be available on a built-to-order basis , using Creative Technologies Inc Soundblaster boards and other third party products : MultiMedia ValuePoints will range in price from $2,100 for an 80486SX model to about $3,500 for a high-end 80486 DX2 system . |
| 23 | There is no doubt that the Brussels Agreement provided for a significant 25 per cent expansion in the resources available to the EC . |
| 24 | The 11 countries attending the meeting agreed on a Saudi Arabian proposal for a voluntary 5 per cent production cut by all member states , which it was hoped would reduce their collective output by just over 1,000,000 barrels per day , to 22,300,000 bpd . |
| 25 | The Pb isotope data for other islands located in areas of old lithosphere , Fernando de Noronha , Cape Verdes and the oceanic Cameroon line ( Fig. 1 ) , tend to be only slightly high in 206 Pb/ 204 Pb for a given 207 Pb/ 204 Pb ( Fig. 2 c ) , as expected given the lower average U/Pb ratios of lavas from these islands ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 26 | Identify the opportunities for selling on and target for an extra 10 per cent . |
| 27 | Most people who take a personal pension in place of SERPS will qualify for an extra 2 per cent payment by the DSS on top of the minimum contributions . |
| 28 | Over the period 1957–65 for US manufacturing , extra sales by overseas subsidiaries counted for an estimated 13 per cent of the total increase in production ( additional exports accounted for only a trivial 2 per cent ) . |
| 29 | Other regulations were also relaxed , but it was still envisaged that the state would retain 51 per cent participation in publicly controlled banks ( accounting for an estimated 80 per cent of the sector ) . |
| 30 | On March 7 hundreds of government employees had reportedly rioted in Salta , 1,600 km north-west of Buenos Aires , in protest at Menem 's plans to cut state spending , and thousands more participated in a nationwide strike on March 21 , an estimated 40,000 demonstrating in Buenos Aires for an end to privatization and for wage increases to compensate for an estimated 40 per cent rise in prices in the first two weeks of the month . |