Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With land improvements in the LFA until recently attracting 50% grants and drainage attracting either 60% or 70% of costs in the UK ( plus guidance premia for farmers with Development Plans ) , a higher proportion of land improvement costs overall has been borne by the state than by the farmer . |
| 2 | He had acquired in effect a veto over all grants or sales of land to the church , but it was against his political and financial interests to enforce this ban . |
| 3 | Behaviour is observed in its natural setting , and it is possible to make a study of social process , rather than being limited to the snapshot or series of snapshots of the survey researcher . |
| 4 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 5 | Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents . |
| 6 | Mr McCartney said a survey revealed that 40pc of households in the estate had no car and 60pc could not afford an annual holiday . |
| 7 | ( For example , in December 1989 the Sunday Times reported that a MORI poll showed that 75% of members of the Church of England supported the idea of women priests . ) |
| 8 | A new poll commissioned by the Birth Control Trust showed that 82pc of people in the province thought abortion should be legal where it was necessary for the physical or mental health of the woman . |
| 9 | Finally , if you have a spacious back garden , but less than 2.4m of space at the side , you could consider building a detached garage down the garden , and extending your drive down the side of the house to reach it . |
| 10 | More than 35pc of accommodation under the scheme will be set aside for the homeless . |
| 11 | The accuracy of data must be suspected when the same document reports that 22% of tonsillectomies in the Yorkshire region are performed as day case procedures . |
| 12 | That report from the Mayo clinic was mirrored to some extent by the study of Pescatori and Mattana who reported that 45% of patients over the age of 45 experienced faecal soiling , whereas only 24% of patients under 45 years of age did so . |
| 13 | Massed Pipes & Drums The Scots Guards — 350 Years The Massed Pipes and Drums together with the Pipes and Drums from Adelaide University , Australia Massed Scottish Dancers The Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines The Band , Pipes and Drums and Corps of Drums of the Scots Guards Music of the Massed Military Bands |
| 14 | Then we all moved out to watch the ceremony of Beating Retreat by the Band and Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 15 | Twelve per cent of men and 12% of women were graduates , compared with 13% of men and 6% of women in the general population . |
| 16 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 17 | In the first year full premium would be paid on 450 ewes , 920 in Less Favoured Areas and 33% of premium on the rest . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Through the establishment of a monetary union between the contracting parties , the Deutsche Mark shall be the means of payment , unit of account and means of deposit in the entire currency area . |
| 19 | ‘ But I 'm not prepared to have this new expansion with all the congestion and noise it would cause and 90pc of people in the area will be up in arms . |
| 20 | Two months ago the Musée des Beaux-Arts inaugurated the first phase of its renovation scheme with the opening of thirty-one new rooms devoted to painting and works of art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 21 | In the flyer produced by Oxford University Press , Peter Fusco , Curator of European Sculpture and Works of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum , writes that the catalogue is ‘ a work which every art library and student of sculpture will need to own ’ . |
| 22 | Christie 's sale of the modern paintings , drawings and works of art from the William A. McCarty-Cooper Collection , ( primarily bequeathed to their late owner by his adoptive father and former lover , Douglas Cooper ) on the evening of 11 May was a remarkably unexciting , business-like and fitful affair . |
| 23 | We ( along with our rival colleagues at Christie 's ) had hoped to succeed in including antiques and works of art in the clause of the new Hong Kong basic law which guarantees the exportability of certain types of financial assets after 1997 . |
| 24 | Sir John Soane 's was the collection of a working architect , and the wonderful variety of objects and works of art in the museum were used as an anthology of antique architecture and decoration as well as a teaching collection . |
| 25 | Much the same can be said about constitutionally significant statute law , judicial decisions , and works of authority in the United States . |