Example sentences of "fact [conj] a [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is likely to be related to the fact that a higher proportion of these cases are contested . |
| 2 | More depressing still is the fact that a great proportion of that remembered 20% may not be the most important ! |
| 3 | Safety campaigns aimed solely at pedestrians are not sufficient in view of the fact that a substantial proportion of pedestrians are struck by vehicles and killed or injured , not on the road but on the pavement . |
| 4 | The overall relative improvement of working-class housing standards masks the fact that a small proportion of inner city areas inhabited by working-class and immigrant residents contain a high proportion of inadequate housing . |
| 5 | This is largely due , however , to the fact that a significant proportion of Peru 's imports from the Soviet Union consists of arms — clearly a highly sensitive commodity . |
| 6 | However , this is not due to white cats being stupid or careless mothers , but to the fact that a large proportion of them are deaf and are therefore unaware of the problems of their mewing offspring . |
| 7 | The industry 's preoccupation with domestic sales derived not only from political pressure , but also from the fact that a large proportion of their resources ( both capital and manpower ) was necessarily devoted to servicing the generally small and thus more expensive-to-supply domestic consumers . |
| 8 | The fact that a large proportion of women now work has potential implications for the balance of power and dependency within families and the way that domestic tasks are performed . |
| 9 | For example , it ignores the fact that a large proportion of the secondary population actually live in nearby towns rather than in the village . |
| 10 | Geographical interest in river basins stems largely from the fact that a large proportion of the world 's population lives close to rivers , which act as sources of water supply for human consumption and for agricultural and industrial use . |
| 11 | Thus , the achievements of white working class pupils — children whose parents are manual workers — are much closer to those of Afro-Caribbean pupils , and it is arguable that the findings of Rampton , Swann and similar investigations can be explained by the fact that a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbeans than whites are working class , and are likely to be earning less and living in worse housing than whites , as documented earlier in this chapter ( Brown , 1984 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | The chief issues that are singled out in this debate are : that the growing proportion of retired people will impose a burden of increasing cost upon a shrinking population of working age in terms of pensions and services ; and the fact that a growing proportion of these will be very old and therefore more in need of medical and other care will make this burden more onerous still . |
| 13 | The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation . |