Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy Tait attacked Professor McDonald 's stature as an independent witness , dismissing his statement that there was no risk to the Quebec community even where there were mountains of asbestos waste by citing a new state investigation that found almost 60 per cent of asbestos industry workers had abnormal X-rays . |
| 2 | But the people of modern Egypt were not content with agriculture that was so seasonal , or was confined to an area that utilized only three per cent of their country . |
| 3 | Perhaps , to be a little facetious , an ancestral insect that looked only 5 per cent like a turd would have fooled an ancestral bird with only 5 per cent vision . |
| 4 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 5 | The delay knocked work back two years and swallowed about 4 per cent of the total project budget . |
| 6 | Hinkley Point A , for example , even with the benefit of the ‘ mechanized army ’ so lyrically portrayed by The Times correspondent , took seven and a half years to build instead of its projected five , and went about 25 per cent over budget ( £34 million ) . |
| 7 | The quickening pace of commerce increased the urban population : a mere 3 per cent of the population in 1700 , it rose to about 8 per cent in 1800 and reached around 11 per cent by the 1850s . |
| 8 | Taking a gamble , the British Greens contested all 78 mainland seats and took nearly 15 per cent of the vote ( but no seats because of the first-past-the-post rule of British elections ; i.e. there was not a single constituency in which the Greens had a majority ) . |
| 9 | From a restored base at Barings , where he exercised autocratic leadership and took almost 50 per cent of the distributed profits ( amassing thereby a considerable personal fortune ) , Revelstoke exercised great influence in the City and Whitehall , though always remaining in the background of public affairs . |
| 10 | The regional autonomy parties continued to make gains in the north , but won only 2.5 per cent of the overall vote . |
| 11 | In the July 17 primary contest Young finished second with over 31 per cent of the total vote , but won only 15 per cent of the white vote . |