Example sentences of "[adj] proportion of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a high proportion of residents in Homes are frail , you may have to assist with nursing care and may come across conditions which you may not have met before in elderly people . |
| 2 | Since a high proportion of residents in Homes are frail , you may have to assist with nursing care , as outlined on pages 69 to 85 . |
| 3 | These early parties are nearly always found at Thorney Island and include a high proportion of adults in summer plumage . |
| 4 | A high proportion of merchants in the textile-dominated Moscow region belonged to the inward-looking Old Believer tradition . |
| 5 | More fundamentally , it is the high proportion of immigrants in this school which is responsible for the lowering of standards . |
| 6 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 7 | In their answers to that question a high proportion of pupils in all three bands left off the " pm " after the 12 hour clock time . |
| 8 | One finding of interest provided by the test with a calendar was that a high proportion of pupils in all attainment bands knew that dates in the following year fell a day later than the previous one . |
| 9 | The high proportion of carbohydrates in the leaves makes them an ideal target for creatures that bite and suck out the energy rich sap . |
| 10 | Even if it is not read out in the endless rounds of buying and selling shares , then the message , passive though it might be , should still find its way into the living rooms of a high proportion of homes in the Sheffield region . |
| 11 | That said , the prevalence of NSAID intake was not significantly lower than that reported in an Australian community prevalence study after correction for a lower proportion of women in the present study . |
| 12 | The pooling of saliva in this study was minimised by dilatation of the oesophagus before the pH monitoring period and motility studies showed that a similar proportion of patients in both groups had ineffective peristalsis . |
| 13 | Undertake a comprehensive survey of members ' professional activities and interests as a basis for involving a larger proportion of members in Institute affairs.PS |
| 14 | The results show that a relatively large proportion of lymphocytes in normal small bowel express γ-interferon . |
| 15 | Our study is the first to enumerate γ-interferon producing cells in sections of human intestine and the results show that a remarkably large proportion of lymphocytes in the lamina propria and epithelium of normal small bowel mucosa contain γ-interferon . |
| 16 | A further consequence of enterprise-based unions is that , although they permit a high degree of rank-and-file participation in decision-making , they nevertheless fail to organise large proportions of workers in smaller firms where unionism is discouraged by paternalistic employment relationships . |
| 17 | An appreciable proportion of practices in east London are of the type cited in the article . |
| 18 | Some questions in the tests were answered correctly by a substantial proportion of pupils in the lowest third . |
| 19 | A substantial proportion of pupils in all three bands were able to get the whole number of metres correct . |
| 20 | Even those who attain high levels may not choose to ( a substantial proportion of graduates in science and technology do not pursue careers in these ) . |
| 21 | The results will be discussed here because they lead to an interesting speculation upon the optimum level of investment in R&D and identification of variables explaining major proportions of variances in indicators of success . |
| 22 | A growing proportion of children in care of the local authority are not actually placed in homes or boarded out but are left under the charge of parent , guardian , relative or friend with some supervision from the social workers . |
| 23 | Compared with sector KW14.8 covering the east part of the town , a smaller proportion of residents in sector KW14.7 , which covers the west part worked in the construction industry in the pre-oil era ( table VII ) . |
| 24 | Successful farming in DRAs demands very high levels of skill but an even smaller proportion of farmers in such areas appear to have received any formal training ; opportunities to receive it are considerably less than in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 25 | The Commission provides guidance on certain of the services or costs they wish reviewed ; for example , in introducing a higher proportion of civilians into the police force or boarding out a higher proportion of children in care . |
| 26 | As Table 12 , above , shows , a number of chronological groups contained a markedly higher proportion of items in need of repair than the overall figure of 6% already calculated . |
| 27 | It must not be forgotten , however , that although a particular period may contain a low proportion of defective items , if publications from that period are in great demand , a larger number of defective items from that period may be issued ( and may suffer further damage ) than from a less popular period , even if the latter contains a higher proportion of items in need of repair . |
| 28 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 29 | That is a higher proportion of beds in relation to population than in England . |
| 30 | The specialised histological type is associated with a higher rate of cell turnover as shown by thymidine labelling and a higher proportion of cells in cycle ( by proliferating cell nuclear antigen immunolocalisation ) than junctional and fundic types . |