Example sentences of "[no cls] of [noun] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 SIXTY per cent of union bosses are in favour of scrapping the trade union block vote at Labour Party conferences .
2 In terms of availability on the labour market , then , 93 per cent of conversion students were in work , waiting to start work , or looking for work .
3 As Table 2.5 shows , some 70 per cent of agency workers are in eight narrowly defined occupations — systems analysts and programmers , nurses , draughtsmen , clerks , secretaries and receptionists , office machine operators , telephonists , and bus and lorry drivers — which account for only 18 per cent of total employment .
4 The other resolutions were concerned with reparations , to which a maximum of 30 per cent of oil revenues were to be allocated , and , once again , with the control of weapons of mass destruction .
5 Eighty per cent of Halifax borrowers are on such ‘ budget ’ schemes .
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