Example sentences of "a [adj] [unc] [unc] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reads at first sight like a selfless Magna Carta for the wild — until you begin to glimpse ( as in that ancient charter ) the barons ' hidden agenda . |
| 2 | Most people will offer something even if it is only a few per cent for cash on delivery . |
| 3 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 4 | A typical basalt contains a few per cent of phenocryst minerals , but in an andesite phenocrysts may form as much as 50 per cent volume of the rock . |
| 5 | Total French expenditure is only a few per cent of total US space expenditure . |
| 6 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 7 | In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells . |
| 8 | Only a few per cent of the thyroid tumours would be fatal , whereas perhaps half of the cancers from caesium-137 would be fatal . |
| 9 | Yes that 's why I 've the increase of twelve and a half per cent on it . |
| 10 | Secondly the decision is a nineteen ninety one budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who raised the level of the Value Added Tax to seventeen and a half per cent from fifteen per cent hit the income of the majority of County Federation and certainly the National Federation because Customs and Excise when VAT was introduced ruled that the annual subscriptions was made VATable . |
| 11 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 12 | Chickens are pecked by their social superiors in order to maintain a rigid status quo within the flock . |
| 13 | Erm there is now a standard pro forma for identifying liquidated damages . |
| 14 | But do n't be greedy : a fund with a 7 per cent to 8 per cent yield is likely to produce a much better capital gain over time than one with a higher yield . |
| 15 | The UK has a 7 per cent of this market compared with a 5.5 per cent share of trade in goods . |
| 16 | There was five minutes of coat removal , coffee-making and slipper-finding , and a brief post mortem on my stiletto heel while the question burned unasked . |
| 17 | Moving up to Pikes Crag , another pinnacle , known as Buckbarrow Needle , has a fine E1 5b up its front face — the obviously named Needle Front . |
| 18 | The look-out towers were provided with clocks , and the fortified entrance was turned into a long porte cochère with projecting canopies . |
| 19 | THE French market bid a cheery au revoir to Edith Cresson , glad to see the back of a government that has been the source of much uncertainty , even outright damage , for the Paris market . |
| 20 | It formed the Bund and committed itself to a critical modus vivendi with the state by declaring itself to be a ‘ church within socialism ’ . |
| 21 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 22 | This features a single 50MHz T9000 with up to 128Mb of memory . |
| 23 | Klein s work rests upon a moral and normative order which can either , as in the work of other object-relations theorists , become associated with a particular status quo in terms of family structure and roles , or else , if rechannelled , be used for a radical critique of these same institutions ( e.g. Frosh 1987 ) . |
| 24 | The charity depends almost a hundred per cent on the public for its funds . |
| 25 | A director from each of the new companies would acquire shares and sit on the SUPPLYKITS board : as Miranda owned the entire company , these inducement shares would reduce her holding , but Adam had convinced a reluctant Miranda that by relinquishing fifteen per cent of her shares , she was exchanging a hundred per cent of a small orange for eighty-five per cent of a crateful . |
| 26 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 29 | A hundred per cent of admissions physically disabled . |
| 30 | Not in a hundred per cent of the cases , er and we do have undesirables at the John Radcliffe , er but there has n't been an incident such as this er I think that goes some way to prove that we do have a reasonably tight security service , and we , we work to any way that we can to keep it as secure as possible . |