Example sentences of "[det] of [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord , my Lord erm my Lord that really brings me to what are , er my conclusions , my Lord erm , can I just practice my conclusions with two erm comments , first of all about the , the my learned friend seems to paint erm in relation to this of course Mr made a point quite strongly that he agrees this is a relevant consideration and that er have exaggerated the situation and if they are willing to make a point a like this it would require evidence , they did point to their accounts , Lord erm I do n't see to put in evidence , but the , the statutory statement of business served er filed by on the first of September this year with the D T I , revealed that has a total of sixteen and a half billion in it 's members premium trust funds which is up four billion from the end of the previous year , erm , set against that the claims now made against the names is , is relatively speaking er small , erm my Lord |
| 2 | In 1989–90 , just over half of ESG funds were devoted to projects concerned with the local management of schools and the national curriculum . |
| 3 | Jesus , half of SCUM supporters could nt name the side 5 years ago , let alone 40 years ago . |
| 4 | At least half of Sun CIS Region employees will be drawn from the local computer industry . |
| 5 | At least half of Sun CIS Region employees will be drawn from the local IT industry . |
| 6 | Over the past few years the market has boomed : Dataquest expects portables to account for around half of PC sales by 1995 . |
| 7 | The Hanoverians inherited a system of taxation which was already shifting away from the taxes on land and immovable property that had provided almost half of government income under the later Stuarts . |
| 8 | By 1900 about half of government revenue was raised from income tax and from death duties . |
| 9 | By the next year more than half of manufacturing production used foreign technology . |
| 10 | Brazil , accounting both in land and people for half of South America , is already firmly established as one of the leaders of the ‘ Third World ’ . |
| 11 | And half of south Wales to be disposed of in consequence . |
| 12 | Percutaneous aspiration cytology has been reported as confirming malignancy in about two thirds of pancreatic cancers and one half of bile duct tumours but can not be done unless a mass lesion is established on imaging . |
| 13 | Hi-Tec hopes North America , which lifted sales and profits by 20 per cent , and Europe will account for half of group turnover by early 1991 . |
| 14 | When the leasing firm last year promised $100m of fresh equity , its loans and MTNs were trading at about half of face value , with higher prices for the shorter maturities due for repayment soon . |
| 15 | The ICS is a voluntary organisation of national shipowners ' associations representing more than half of world merchant tonnage . |
| 16 | Goods and services produced according to global strategies now comprise more than half the total output , while by 1985 between a quarter and half of world trade ( varying according to economic sector ) was intrafirm , that is between buyer and seller within a single enterprise ( Strange , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | In addition half of Ingredient P would have to be purchased externally for [ f9,000/2 ] f4,500 . |
| 18 | Local accountability is undermined as ( a ) more than half of rate income comes from the non-voting business sector and ( b ) some electors ( such as lodgers , young adults living with parents ) do not pay rates . |
| 19 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 20 | Over half of adult Bolivians are unable to use the written word , with the rate for women being twice that for men . |
| 21 | As can be seen from the table , around half of pension funds ' assets are UK company securities . |
| 22 | A recent report by the BMA has confirmed that stress and disillusionment are common among young doctors , and various reports have pinpointed the preregistration year as a time of considerable unhappiness , up to half of preregistration house officers suffering from clinical depression during the year . |
| 23 | OPEN LEARNING MAKES UP HALF OF TRAINING COURSE |
| 24 | The principal conclusion of the study was that all three of the series of square-headed brooches which were isolated ( two of silver and one of copper-alloy ) , the majority of keystone garnet inlaid disc brooches , of silver , and at least some of the garnet inlaid buckle plates , some of silver and some of copper alloy , are the products of a single workshop . |
| 25 | Some of chef/owner Melvin Rhodes ' recipes are included in the Les Routiers Cook Book and he will be cooking at least one of these for the lunch . |
| 26 | Open Systems World , to be written by Digital Review 's old staff , is apparently picking up some of System Integration 's circulation and advertisers — but for a book that 's supposed to debut in October , as space sales types say they have n't seen hide nor hair of its space reps on the street . |
| 27 | The Scholmaster thereof for the tyme beinge yelding and paying yearely unto my heires and some of Sixe shillings Eight pence Rente . " |
| 28 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 29 | A recent survey found one in six young people , including some of school age , earning less than one pound an hour . |
| 30 | Sources say some of Sun Microsystems Inc 's top accounts have been bemoaning the company 's lack of direct support for the OSF/Motif graphical user interface . |