Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when , if , if you were to come to sell your residence , they would knock off that proportion of the total er er which could in fact give rise to a small capital gain depending on how the er how you sold , because you might sell it at a loss . |
| 2 | In practice , this meant that a polytechnic or college of higher education could obtain a 100 per cent grant for that proportion of the establishment 's work which fell within the definition of ‘ poolable advanced further education ’ as agreed by local authorities . |
| 3 | Following the case of Shepherd v Law Land plc [ 1990 ] STC 795 it is now clear that group relief for that proportion of Target 's current accounting period which falls before the date it leaves the group remains available . |
| 4 | The Green Paper which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health published this summer , entitled ’ The Health of the Nation ’ , suggests , as part of the consultation about health targets , that we should adopt as a target a further reduction , within the time span of the White Paper , when it is published , of that proportion of the population who smoke from 33 per cent . |
| 5 | mature machair , Festuca rubra community but with high proportion of Trifolium pratense . |
| 6 | THESE clubs are characterised by having an above average proportion of their revenue deriving from cricket . |
| 7 | Includes an above average proportion of unemployed . |
| 8 | Pupils would continue with up to six subjects in the sixth form , in varying proportion of I- and A-level . |
| 9 | For example , most schemes award a pension equal to some proportion of ‘ final salary ’ . |
| 10 | A provision for the partners to draw in advance of final ascertainment of their profit sharethe limits of which might conveniently be defined by reference to some proportion of the previous year 's profits ( Clause 10.03 ) making sufficient allowance for the possibility that that year 's profit levels may not be repeated let alone exceeded . |
| 11 | If a left ear advantage , per se , were considered indicative of right-sided speech then up to this proportion of right handers would be classified on such a test as having right hemisphere speech . |
| 12 | The underlying epidemiology is unknown , but is perhaps associated with pasture contamination by that proportion of ingested larvae which did not undergo hypobiosis in early summer . |
| 13 | Duck rather more rufous than duck eider , but otherwise very hard to distinguish except by larger proportion of bill covered with feathers , especially at sides ; bare pan not extending right back past eye , as with Eider . |