Example sentences of "by a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic ABTA fund is financed by a 10 per cent levy on ABTA licensed members and 15 per cent on non-ABTA operators . |
| 2 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 3 | Strengthened by a 75 per cent increase in its capital following successful negotiations with the US government , the IDB announced a US$22,500 million aid programme for 1990-93 . |
| 4 | At the end of this period , it could only be overturned by a 75 per cent majority of all states attending a Treaty conference , which must include the current 26 voting members . |
| 5 | At the end of this period , it can only be overturned by a 75 per cent majority of all states attending a Treaty conference , which must include the present 26 voting members . |
| 6 | Addressing representatives from 212 member airlines at IATA 's annual meeting in Montreal , Eser warned that the present crisis , aggravated by a 4.4 per cent drop in passenger numbers on scheduled services , was likely to continue until at least 1994 . |
| 7 | Consumer prices in February rose by a larger-than-expected 0.5% , or an annualised rate of 5.8% . |
| 8 | However , it must satisfy unc so that if x1 is multiplied by a scalar d1 so also is |
| 9 | Last year its GNP grew by a heady 5.7% , despite a fall in real net exports equivalent to nearly 2% of its GNP . |
| 10 | In the 1970s , the United Kingdom population increased by a mere 0.5% , a figure matched only by West Germany . |
| 11 | The effect is consequently a reversion to the pre-Anns position of developing new categories of duty incrementally by analogy with established categories rather than by a wide prima facie duty constrained only by undefined ‘ considerations which ought to negate , or to reduce or limit the scope of the duty or the class of persons to whom it is owed ’ . |
| 12 | With the new Council established and working effectively , the original University/WEA Joint Tutorial Classes Committee and the Rural Areas Committee were replaced in 1946 by a new University/WEA Joint Committee which assumed responsibility for Tutorial Classes and One-Year Sessional classes extending over twenty to twenty-four meetings . |
| 13 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |
| 14 | Life in the intelligence services , by a former M16 officer . |
| 15 | Most of this increase was accounted for by a planned NKr5,000 million fund to help the banking sector . |
| 16 | The list is long : the government 's decision in August 1985 to lean on the BBC Board of Governors not to show a Real Lives programme featuring interviews with terrorists in Northern Ireland ; its prohibition of broadcasts with terrorist groups in Northern Ireland ; its prosecution of newspapers which revealed the contents of the Spycatcher book of memoirs by a retired MI5 agent , Peter Wright ; its robust dismissal of the dissenting views of senior figures in the Church of England , senior civil servants , and university spokesmen ; its appointments to various quangos and nationalized industries ; and its controls on local government . |
| 17 | In the general election of 1918 the Irish Parliamentary Party which had dominated Irish politics since the days of Parnell was routed by a reorganised Sinn Fein , many of whose members had fought in the 1916 Rising . |
| 18 | The attendant 's face was hidden by a papier mâché mask , as worn by all the attendants and waiters . |
| 19 | The engineers at Dacia , cossetted perhaps by a 99 per cent share of the local market , offer no relief . |
| 20 | In the year to the first quarter , America 's GDP grew by a respectable 2.6% . |
| 21 | Members of the National Union of Teachers in Hackney and Tower Hamlets have voted , by a 95 per cent majority , to refuse to teach classes of more than 30 pupils . |
| 22 | The effect of the strike was defused by a 6.5 per cent government pay offer made to teachers and civil servants on Oct. 22 , the promise of concessions to striking nurses ( who had been camping in front of the Health Ministry for three weeks ) , and a series of measures to end protests by farmers . |
| 23 | Recent activity is explained by a 1 per cent shareholding , built by Fininvest , a Milan-based media group run by Silvo Berlusconi . |
| 24 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 25 | On Dec. 22 parliament approved budget cuts of about L 93,000,000 million ( about US$6,600 million ) for 1993 , this being immediately followed by a 1 per cent cut in the discount rate to 12 per cent . |
| 26 | The cash will be raised by a five per cent levy on all transfer fees received by the clubs and a 10 per cent cut of their end-of-season prize-money from the League . |
| 27 | Lesbian and gay bitterness was the more acute for a sense of betrayal , given the trail-blazing work of the Labour Greater London Council ( GLC ) , subsequent lesbian and gay equality policies by a number of Labour local authorities , and the breakthroughs achieved by the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights — notably the 1985 Labour Annual Conference policy which was reaffirmed at the 1986 Annual Conference by a 79 per cent majority . |
| 28 | These sharp gains were dampened by a 1.5 per cent decline in prices in both Germany and France and a 2.7 per cent fall in Italy . |
| 29 | The Bank of Korea forecasts that GDP will grow by a real 6.3%-6.8% this year , up from 4.7% in 1992 . |
| 30 | Meanwhile property sales are in the doldrums , and the government has reneged on its agreement to let BR raise commuters ' rail fares by a real 3.5% a year . |