Example sentences of "[det] of the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no clearer indication than this of the blending of the concentric circular geometric and the geometric diagonal or rotated linear designs . |
| 2 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 3 | Nearly threequarters of firewood and about half of the dung in urban India is purchased . |
| 4 | To make a pattern , mask half of the arch with paper and draw round the outline . |
| 5 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 6 | Half of the way through the book when things started to go wrong Ralph realised that Piggy did have some valuable points . |
| 7 | By 1970 the 100 largest firms produced nearly half of the output of British industry . |
| 8 | The grants announced yesterday cover about half of the funding for the higher education sector . |
| 9 | The stimulus plan contained $207 million for NSF in the current year , nearly half of the increase of 15 per cent being sought for fiscal year 1994 , which begins on 1 October ; without that running start , Congress is extremely unlikely to give NSF such a large increase in the face of pressure to reduce the federal deficit and to fund other domestic programmes . |
| 10 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 11 | Professor Keith Cowling and his research team have argued that mergers continue to explain half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 12 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 13 | Wider coverage accounts for well over half of the increase in the proportion of output devoted to welfare provision during the 1960s . |
| 14 | Does the fact that half of the sample of Conservative Members said that there should be no change in income tax in this Budget invalidate a survey in which well over half the hon. Lady 's colleagues who were consulted said that the basic rate of income tax should go up ? |
| 15 | For example : students hear only half of the dialogue on tape and have to supply the missing lines ; students take notes and then give an account of what happened ; students act out what happened from memory ; students answer questions about the dialogue . |
| 16 | Federal attention to motor vehicles increased thereafter , with the motor vehicle being repeatedly charged with half of the blame for the nation 's air pollution problems . |
| 17 | Half of the money from the sale went to Madame de Lully , and the other half to Lully 's children . |
| 18 | In an extreme case of a rise of 5–6 m in sea level , the USA would lose most of its southern coastal lowlands including half of the state of Florida . |
| 19 | Half of the night with our old friend |
| 20 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 21 | The oldest surviving example is the Pons Fabricius ( Ponte Fabrizio ) built 62–21 B.C. and spanning half of the river from the main bank to the Isola Tiberina , near the Theatre of Marcellus . |
| 22 | Spread half of the mixture in the base of the prepared tin . |
| 23 | Spread half of the mixture inside the slots and tuck a slice of courgette , tomato and ham into each slot . |
| 24 | Lucas Aerospace has teamed up with Harm 's US manufacturer , and would get half of the work on any Harms ordered for the RAF . |
| 25 | Although the maximum tax relief an individual can obtain on BES investments in any tax year is limited to £40,000 , investors can claim up to half of the relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 , assuming that they have not used the full £40,000 in that period ) . |
| 26 | There were about 2,000 members by 1939 and after 1945 the ‘ friendly society ’ dimension was further strengthened by the taking out of an expensive private insurance scheme for players , which absorbed half of the income of the Association . |
| 27 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |
| 28 | Indirect taxation in the form of VAT is a major source of UK tax revenue , accounting for about half of the take from commodity taxation and about 15% of total tax revenue . |
| 29 | Libyan forces capture one half of the country on behalf of one side in the civil war . |
| 30 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |