Example sentences of "[det] of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd also like to come back on this of closed schools in that if we look only at chronological age , which puts a limit on ‘ O ’ levels , we are shutting doors , because many students — and I see this in the sixth form — are not ready for these examinations at the prescribed age . |
| 2 | But when you start to think about it in terms of erm sort of psychological explanation as you 're becoming used to , then it becomes perhaps not such a good way of thinking about perception Matlin 's got some very examples in it of this of those sorts of things By and large were concerned with people 's experience , self-reported experience quite often , of the phenomena saying well tell me what you see when you look at it rather than being based on the sort of lovely stuff that we love , good solid empirical data , yeah ? |
| 3 | Okay you , I mean is any of this of any use to you ? |
| 4 | Nearly half of black teenagers in the city of Chicago fail to graduate from high school . |
| 5 | More than half of working men with degree qualifications work in professional and managerial jobs compared to 35 per cent of women . |
| 6 | Almost half of 750 farmers in a survey were unaware that ADAs provided free public good advice . |
| 7 | And there 's half of baked potato in the fridge if you can scoop it out of the skin and heat it up . |
| 8 | Any legislation " submitted by individual legislative council members " ( effectively private members ' bills ) would require the endorsement of " more than half of two groups of members , one selected by the functioning organizations and the other by various constituencies and by the election committee " . |
| 9 | Seeing how low she was , Anthony decided that she needed to get out of the house and gave her reluctant permission to spend half of each day in court . |
| 10 | Reflecting this , something approaching half of personal loans from banks or finance companies were used to buy things costing more than £500 , and only six per cent to buy things costing under £100 . |
| 11 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 12 | Research also shows that many youngsters in residential care have experienced difficulties with schooling ; for example , over half of all boys in residential care have stayed down a class at least once . |
| 13 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 14 | Furthermore , half of all mothers on welfare come off it within two years ( Daly , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Those aged 65 + account for approximately half of all expenditure on the NHS . |
| 16 | In the Netherlands , by contrast , over half of all journeys by senior schoolchildren are made by cycle . |
| 17 | It was estimated that the yakuza consisted of some 3,300 separate gangs , although the three largest organizations — the Yamagushi-gumi , the Inagawa-kai and the Sumiyoshi-kai — were responsible for almost half of all activity by the gangs . |
| 18 | However , in women , Cystitis is one of the most common medical problems today , which affects around half of all women at some time in their lives . |
| 19 | On this measure , one quarter of all men in work , and half of all women in work are now in the sector offering numerical flexibility ’ ( p. 93 ) . |
| 20 | These people will still be entitled to all the investment returns on the with-profits element of their investment — which accounts on average for about half of all investment into UWP contracts — but they will only be entitled to 60 per cent of the infrastructure profits on both the with-profits and the unit-linked business . |
| 21 | The Secondary sector provided more than half of all employment between 1851 and 1921 , but ended the period , as it began , with 48 per cent . |
| 22 | These cause half of all deaths in infancy and one in 10 childhood deaths in hospital . |
| 23 | Is it not astounding that half of all crime in Britain is committed by people under the age of 21 ? |
| 24 | The Tertiary sector was already larger than the Primary in 1841 and provided virtually half of all jobs by 1961 : it advanced most markedly between 1911 and 1931 . |
| 25 | The Government Actuary 's 1983 and 1987 surveys show that , during the years since the 1975 survey , about half of all men in private sector employment had access to occupational pension provision . |
| 26 | He said the issue of knife carrying was a major concern to Scottish people and the police and that recent statistics showed that half of all murders in Strathclyde had involved knives . |
| 27 | In a book published last year by the Royal Institute of International Affairs , ‘ Global Companies and Public Policy ’ , DeAnne Julius estimated that trade between firms and their overseas affiliates accounts for more than half of all trade between OECD countries . |
| 28 | At least half of all fetuses with the syndrome have a congenital heart defect , and many others have bowel atresias . |
| 29 | Nearly half of all schools in England were closed . |
| 30 | Two weeks before the Department of Education publishes its nationwide league tables of school results , the Daily Post has compiled its own figures , with half of all schools in the region agreeing to participate . |