Example sentences of "[unc] of [art] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five per cent of the staves were of the correct thickness but the rest were nearly all less than nine-sixteenths of an inch thick . |
| 2 | Probably about 70 per cent of the women were in there because of drugs — a phenomenal proportion . |
| 3 | As Table 4.6 shows , 32 per cent of male SERC students were looking for work at the end of their courses : 47 per cent of the women were in this position . |
| 4 | For instance , in the dog kidney although 80 per cent of the receptors are of subtype vaso-constriction is largely mediated by receptors ( , ) . |
| 5 | Fig. 6. 19 shows the improvement that can be achieved in 80/20 type files — those in which 80 per cent of the accesses are to 20 per cent of the records — for buckets holding one , two , three and four records over a wide range of packing densities , and Table 6.8 provides figures for a number of bucket sizes and packing densities . |
| 6 | Another 13 per cent of the reports were of " vaguely coloured " dreams . |
| 7 | A group of white parents , each of whose children had been allocated places at a school ( Headfield ) where 83 per cent of the pupils were of Asian origin , challenged the LEA 's decisions both individually , through separate appeals ( some of which were successful ) , and subsequently through collective action . |
| 8 | Mrs C asked her LEA if her daughter could change school , because at her school , where 40 per cent of the pupils were of Asian origin , the child was , in Mrs C 's reported words , ‘ learning Pakistani ’ . |
| 9 | 95 per cent of the children are from families of Asian origin , with more than 90 per cent from Bangladeshi backgrounds . |