Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vehicular exhaust is reponsible for 93 per cent of the carbon dioxide in the city 's air , the group says . |
| 2 | The introduction of the test for drivers , which could be available in April , has been prompted by the realisation that driver error is responsible for 95 per cent of road accidents which kill 14 people a day on UK roads . |
| 3 | The companies varied substantially in size , however , the ten largest being responsible for 55 per cent of all funds under management . |
| 4 | CO is man 's main contribution to the greenhouse effect , responsible for 55 per cent of the warming ; other important gases are methane and nitrous oxide , given off by burning fossil fuels and vegetation , and chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which also cause ozone depletion . |
| 5 | Based on 1987 European Monitoring and Evaluation ( EMEP ) figures , the UK was responsible for 10 per cent of the sulphur deposition that fell on Norway . |
| 6 | It is no longer enough to divide the records into two groups , and the analysis has been carried out on the nine separate groups of records responsible for 10 per cent , 20 per cent , 30 per cent … , 90 per cent packing . |
| 7 | On air pollution , the report said that the country was responsible for 1.6 per cent of global emissions of carbon dioxide , twice the per capita average . |
| 8 | The Indonesian Environment Minister , Emil Salim , has accused PT Tebor of being responsible for 80 per cent of all the waste from factories along the river . |
| 9 | To that , humanity adds about 5.6 billion tonnes from burning fossil fuels , of which the developed nations are responsible for 70–75 per cent , with power stations the worst offenders . |
| 10 | It does not include a ruling on methyl chloroform which accounts for five per cent of depletion and carbon tetrachloride which is responsible for eight per cent . |
| 11 | April 24 ) that ‘ population growth is responsible for 79 per cent of deforestation … ’ needs to be taken with a pinch of logic . |
| 12 | The boy 's thought to be one of a hard core of 8 children , all under 15 , who are responsible for twelve per cent of all reported crimes in the Swindon area . |
| 13 | Acknowledging that cars are responsible for 70 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles , the CBI has suggested that the taxation of road transport should be changed over a number of years to encourage the use of more fuel-efficient vehicles . |
| 14 | In 1978 , the ‘ public corporations ’ accounted for 20 per cent of GDP , employed 2.1 million people , or 8 per cent of the total working population , and were responsible for 16 per cent of gross domestic fixed capital formation ( GDFCF ) ( Central Statistical Office 1987 ) . |
| 15 | After all , he 's responsible for sixty per cent of the funding . ’ |
| 16 | Figures produced by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders ( NACRO , 1990b ) indicate that in terms of annual receptions , magistrates ' courts were responsible for 45 per cent of those sentenced to immediate custody in 1988 , compared with 55 per cent for the Crown Court — in spite of the fact that very many more indictable offenders are tried and convicted in magistrates ' courts than in the Crown Court ( 90 per cent and 20 per cent respectively ) . |
| 17 | Britain has been responsible for 52 per cent of all inventions worldwide in the past 30 years , according to a survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . |
| 18 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 19 | Road traffic is directly responsible for 88 per cent of carbon monoxide emissions , 48 per cent of nitrogen oxide and 37 per cent of hydrocarbons . |
| 20 | It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women . |
| 21 | Four firms are responsible for 50 per cent of the market . |
| 22 | Candidates closely identified with the President were defeated in the important states of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana , and in particular in the key state of Sao Paulo , responsible for 50 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 23 | We were also conscious that many English teachers are non-specialists : the Kingman Report points out that 28 per cent of teachers in secondary schools have no formal qualifications in English beyond 0-level and that they are responsible for 15 per cent of English teaching ( paragraph 6.4 ) . |
| 24 | The US , which is responsible for 23 per cent of world CO 2 , against 13 per cent from the EC , has already refused to make a similar policy commitment . |
| 25 | According to the report 11 countries ( Brazil , Colombia , Côte d'Ivoire , India , Indonesia , Laos , Myanma , Nigeria , the Philippines , Thailand and Vietnam ) were responsible for 82 per cent of the world 's forest felling . |
| 26 | Before the start of the conference , the UK Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , announced that industrial dumping would be phased out in the UK by 1992 , except in the case of ICI and Sterling Organics ( responsible for 78 per cent of all industrial waste dumped in the North Sea ) which would be licensed to dump until 1993 . |
| 27 | Copper mining was responsible for 66 per cent of the country 's gross commercial product , 60 per cent of government revenues and 95 per cent of export earnings ( Quick 1977 : 381 ) . |
| 28 | The two-year moratorium is not binding , and Britain , which is responsible for 90 per cent of all radioactive waste dumped at sea , has already said that it will not comply with the ban . |
| 29 | This branch was controlled by incorporated companies based in London — a dominance still marked in the first decade of the nineteenth century when City-based firms were responsible for 90 per cent of sums insured . |
| 30 | The report finds that carbon monoxide emissions have risen by 30 per cent since 1980 , with road vehicles being responsible for 90 per cent of these , but that lead emissions have fallen by 70 per cent since the arrival of unleaded petrol in the mid-1980s . |