Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 2 | And yes it erm I mean and therefore we would be reviewing current practices which is that erm you know the film is in the building , the cinema is open , the staff are there and we therefore show a film at four o'clock because there 's no extra charge for us doing so and we hope thereby to attract however many er patrons to see it . |
| 3 | Notwithstanding the above , there were still 67 small independent non-specialist brewery companies in 1977 , together producing around 16 per cent of total beer production . |
| 4 | Well I only did it out of curiosity basically to see how much er , one spent in in calls with th , like Lyndsey in Hong Kong . |
| 5 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 6 | He not only used very expressive ports de bras for his other-worldly characters but changed the usual conception of classical pointe-work . |
| 7 | The vote marked a rejection of all the traditional parties of government , with the centre-right Union for France ( UPF — comprising the Gaullist Rally for the Republic — RPR — and the centrist Union for French Democracy — UDF ) together polling only 33 per cent ( 39.3 per cent in 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Yet Food Giant only takes around four per cent profit . |
| 9 | In 1700 North America and the West Indies together took only 11 per cent of domestic exports and re-exports while supplying 20 per cent of imports . |
| 10 | They were so incensed that they flew to Los Angeles officially to deny charges that ‘ they only sang about 20 per cent of the music on their 1988 album , Hanging' Tough . |
| 11 | I think we 've put I know we 've put erm eight per cent on on everything that 's now outstanding so it should all go up eight per cent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although a fuller account would include a detailed analysis of all sources of income , the plain fact is that by far the largest source of pensioners ' income is social security , comprising 60 per cent , with the retirement pension alone making up 49 per cent of pensioner income . |
| 14 | Martin ( 1988 ) aggregates employment in a wider group of growth sectors and calculates that the South East region 's share of employment is over 41 per cent , with East Anglia and the South West together claiming over 10 per cent more . |
| 15 | After around 1910 the proportion of Sri Lankans in the civil service , which had long hovered around ten per cent , began to increase . |
| 16 | perhaps instilling more revolutionary erm ideas in the peasants . |
| 17 | When I started we only had about five per cent of the biscuit trade . |
| 18 | On the question of voting rights , Hashimoto described as " regrettable " the fact that Germany , France , the United Kingdom and Japan together controlled only 8 per cent of the shareholder vote , compared to the 34.6 per cent controlled by the United States and Canada together . |
| 19 | Erm if , if it means well , basically I 'd better say how many erm proposals are there for . |
| 20 | Erm , so that the , the purpose of bringing some of these corporate activities back into Policy and Resources where they can perhaps determine how that erm , is going to be managed in the future . |
| 21 | He states : ‘ Like solicitors , estate agents generally charge only 1 per cent . |
| 22 | Like solicitors , estate agents generally charge only 1 per cent . |
| 23 | Available UK coal stocks may last another three to four hundred years , North Sea gas used at current levels another 30 years , and we have already used over 40 per cent of North Sea oil . |
| 24 | Those in favour of an executive presidency thus constituted about 40 per cent of the electorate ; to be accepted , the proposal had to be approved by over half of the total electorate . |
| 25 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 26 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 27 | There is general agreement that Chlamydia trachomatis is the pathogen responsible for a high percentage of cases of NSU , but the best isolation rates still remain below 70 per cent of cases and are more usually in the region of 40 to 50 per cent . |
| 28 | However , only 43 per cent were paid more than £5 per week above the minimum , and full-time male farm workers in 1977 still earned only 77 per cent of the average earnings of all male manual workers . |
| 29 | Used for fruit and ornamental trees , usually carried out late winter/early spring . |
| 30 | The change in atmosphere ensures development of both fig and pollinator : in other species , e.g. F. carica , the domestic fig , copulation takes place under normal atmospheric conditions , and in yet others , the females emerge while still enduring relatively high CO2 levels . |