Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [conj] [num] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main provision of the most recent guidelines issued in 1986 provides that the prohibition in Article 85(1) will not apply to agreements where the parties together do not enjoy more than 5 per cent of the total market for the goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and the parties do not have a combined annual turnover exceeding 200,000,000 ECU ( approximately £140-150m ) . |
| 2 | The purchaser will need to prepare listing particulars unless the consideration shares will comprise less than 10 per cent of the issued listed shares after they have been issued . |
| 3 | The purchaser will need to prepare listing particulars unless listing particulars have been issued in the last year or the consideration shares will comprise less than 10 per cent of the listed shares after they have been issued . |
| 4 | Japan and Germany , it predicted , would also achieve more than 3 per cent growth . |
| 5 | ( Ten per cent g is enough to cause structural damage , extreme earthquakes can generate more than 40 per cent g . ) |
| 6 | the trust must not normally invest more than 5 per cent of its portfolio in any one company ; |
| 7 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 8 | If you could earn more than 5 per cent by investing the money elsewhere , you 'd prefer to pay £1,000 a year for 25 years instead of a lump sum of £15,000 . |
| 9 | Plans by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) to assist the clean up of environmental black spots in former communist countries are being impeded by a rule which says that the Bank can not lend more than 40 per cent of its funds to finance state projects . |
| 10 | A diving whale may store more than 40 per cent of its oxygen intake in its muscles , far more than a human is capable of . |
| 11 | A new kitchen will probably cost between £5,000 and £10,000 for the average three-bedroomed home , but do n't spend more than 10 per cent of the house 's value . |
| 12 | Additionally , these guidelines require that in any rolling three year period the Company should not use more than 7.5 per cent of its issued ordinary share capital by way of non-pre-emptive issues for cash . |
| 13 | Two recent polls showed he would draw more than 20 per cent of the vote in a national election . |
| 14 | I mean as I say now , how can you turn round to a to a bloke who 's , well does n't matter what his on , eh , what , what ever his , his rate of pay is , how can you turn round to him and say you ca n't have more than seven per cent , and his got , his got something like a about twenty five , thirty per cent . |
| 15 | Normally , we do n't pay less than 10 per cent to an artist . |
| 16 | It must also seek the permission of the Charity Commissioners , because of a scheme set up in 1986 under which the Trust must not hold less than 50 per cent of the voting rights of Wellcome . |
| 17 | So quite apart from the need to make new vaccines against flu from time to time to deal with the problem of antigenic shift , individuals have to be vaccinated against flu every year and even then the vaccine may not protect more than 80 per cent of them . |
| 18 | The Board of Education will not pay more than 20 per cent . |
| 19 | Oyston is also chairman and owner of Blackpool Football Club , and is seeking the permission of the League to waive their rule that no one may hold more than 10 per cent of a club if he has a financial interest in another . |
| 20 | the trust must not hold more than 10 per cent of the total capital of any one company ; |
| 21 | If they do not hold more than 10 per cent of the shares to which the offer relates , they can be dealt with under those procedures ( the target must hold the consideration on trust for 12 years , after which it must be paid into court with interest , dividends and other accrued benefitsCA 1985 , s430(9) and ( 11 ) ) . |
| 22 | In Ayrshire , with some world-famous herds , the larger farms would receive less than 5 per cent . |
| 23 | ‘ The Department of Education and Science themselves said the teachers should not get more than five per cent that is what teachers have got in recent years . |
| 24 | A loan of £30,000 would add more than 7 per cent to a monthly £298.22 . |
| 25 | Firstly , that as chairman of Athletico Whaddon I will never devote less than 36 per cent of my time to the club and , secondly , there are , this season , substantial discounts to any supporter spending over £20 at my Superette . |
| 26 | Present guidelines are that , if goods or services covered by an agreement or arrangement or other goods and services perceived by consumers as equivalent do not represent more than 5 per cent of the total market in an area of the EC affected by the agreement and the aggregate turnover of the participants in the respective group does not exceed 200 million ecu ( £130 million ) , EC competition rules will not apply . |
| 27 | For example , the patient described by Shallice ( 1981 b ) could spell more than 90 per cent of the words dictated to him , but could produce plausible spellings for almost no non-words . |
| 28 | In reaction to Bosnia 's newly-gained independence , defiant Serbs yesterday declared their own state in the region which they said will encompass more than 50 per cent of the current republic and remain under Belgrade rule . |
| 29 | One of the shareholders must be based overseas and no one shareholder may own more than 50 per cent of the bank . |
| 30 | Under existing ownership laws no broadcaster may own more than 15 per cent of an independent company . |