Example sentences of "of a [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business had never been better and was growing strongly , with the prospect of a six per cent per annum growth rate . |
| 2 | The improvement algorithm was of a simple ad hoc type . |
| 3 | Roman fides found its way into the coins of Locri about 274 B.C. ( B. V. Head , Historia Numorum , 104 ) ; the devotio of Decius at Sentinum apparently attracted the attention of the contemporary historian Duris ( 76 F 56 Jacoby ) ; the exemplary rebuke of a Roman matrona to her son was reported by Callimachus in his Aetia ( fr. 107 Pfeiffer ) . |
| 4 | The drive behind the campaign for so-called ‘ fairer voting ’ comes predominantly from leftish groups who believe there is an anti-Thatcher majority in the country which the electoral system enables her to flout on the strength of a 42 per cent minority . |
| 5 | Er I 'm not sure in in the case of the the example you 've given of the arising in Greater York that the question of a regional sop shopping centre would arise because that is not necessarily something that is generated within Greater York . |
| 6 | The Prague coffee house , At the Three Magi ( 3/602 ) , is an unusually complete example of a late 14C house . |
| 7 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |
| 8 | ADVERTISING and public relations group , Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell , yesterday saw its shares rise 9p to 422p on the announcement of a 16 per cent rise in profits before tax to £7.7m for the half year to end June . |
| 9 | In spite of a 16 per cent rise in Hydro 's oil production to a record high , selling prices slipped over the year from $20 to $19 a barrel . |
| 10 | This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade . |
| 11 | The absurdity of the " Spycatcher " ban was the result of a dogged insistence on viewing the memoirs of a former MI5 employee as the " property " of government , and conducting the litigation as if he had stolen the office furniture . |
| 12 | McErlean , 26 , the husband of a former Sinn Fein councillor , was ambushed by Loyalist hitmen as he and his teenage brother drove to work from his home in Dunloy , Co Antrim . |
| 13 | Defending the increasingly indefensible policy of a 5 per cent pay norm led the government into growing difficulties . |
| 14 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 15 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 16 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 17 | The Court found that the application of a 5 per cent hurdle throughout Germany ( below which parties could not win representation ) would disadvantage smaller parties . |
| 18 | There 's a round spot on the back which was used before they had er a white er sort of a black erm stripe , er vertical stripe erm on the er on it there . |
| 19 | A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie . |
| 20 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 22 | Right , well again , classification of a wide l lot of material well all three of those , yeah . |
| 23 | Only around Rbs18,500 million out of a required Rbs54,000 million had been contributed by the republics in the first quarter of the year [ for passage in January of 1991 union budget see p. 37970 ] . |
| 24 | I mean we 've all , we 've all seen the results of any customer who 's a bit of a nervous so sort have n't we ? |
| 25 | The revised output figures , confirming an 0.2 per cent rise in gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of last year , made up of a 6.3 per cent rise in oil and gas production , a static service sector , and falls of 0.2 per cent in manufacturing , 0.8 per cent in construction and 1 per cent in farming , provided little fresh inspiration . |
| 26 | A 13 per cent hike in the interim dividend to 3.4p was accompanied by the promise of a 10 per cent rise in the final dividend . |
| 27 | This would be an inappropriate measure for most purposes as most of the effects of a 10 per cent inflation rate ( discussed later in this chapter ) would still apply . |
| 28 | The introduction on Oct. 22 of a 10 per cent general consumption tax ( GCT ) provoked widespread criticism from the political opposition and scepticism from the business community . |
| 29 | The deal came against the background of a 10 per cent decline in world prices since mid-October . |
| 30 | The combination of a 10 per cent rate of interest with a £67.5 million level of income represents a second point on the LM curve , plotted as point D in graph ( d ) . |