Example sentences of "[unc] [no cls] but [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a turnout of over 80 per cent of the 29,900,000 registered voters , the DYP won 27 per cent and secured 178 seats in the 450-seat Grand National Assembly , while the ANAP won 24 per cent but saw its share of seats fall from 275 to 115 . |
| 2 | In what was in effect a mini-budget , Wilson announced on Dec. 19 , 1989 , a reduction in the proposed GST from 9 per cent to 7 per cent but announced further measures to make up the revenue loss . |
| 3 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 4 | The main parties to the left of the SDP , running under the banner of the Left-Wing Alliance formed in April 1990 [ see p. 37506 ] , saw their combined vote fall by 3.1 per cent but retained 19 of their 20 seats . |
| 5 | However , there was unease among conservative KMT members not only at his Taiwanese ( as opposed to mainland Chinese ) origins but also at his calls for rapid reform , exemplified by the 1990/91 budget which had increased spending on foreign policy by 50 per cent but decreased defence spending . |
| 6 | In the West Midlands , Labour gained six seats on a swing of 3.1 per cent but needed three more for victory . |
| 7 | In July the consumer price index fell 0.1 per cent but rose again as wholesale prices jumped 0.9 per cent in September after three months of decline . |
| 8 | The Nationalists were up seven per cent but ceded two of their five strongholds . |