Example sentences of "[det] of [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of her rent — £96 a month — is covered by housing benefit but she still has to pay about half of her poll tax . |
| 2 | She spent half of her morning crying . |
| 3 | The rule of thumb is that a model is a potential target if at least half of its base area if covered by the template . |
| 4 | I think it is arguable that the fact that Channel 4 did do something different , and for much of this period has had almost half of its management structure female , actually led , inside the Channel , to a totally taken-for-granted different way of behaving and thinking about things , and a lack of poncing around , a lack of all these other structures and hierarchies . |
| 5 | Nor is Zurich neglecting its home base , where it still earns nearly a quarter of its premiums and does nearly half of its life insurance business . |
| 6 | In 1961 and 1962 the USSR had provided virtually all of Cuba 's oil imports and had purchased just under half of its sugar crop ( Gouré and Rothenberg : 1975 , p. 52 ) . |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia agrees to supply Jordan with half of its oil needs . |
| 8 | His work in the Sahara was recently included in a Sports Council exhibition that nearly never happened due to a last-minute decision by sponsors Kodak to pull out half of their backing money , which was needed for other photographic projects . |
| 9 | In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers . |
| 10 | It will be clear that all of the Scottish universities offering geology doctorates concentrate more than half of their research effort on local geology , as evidenced by successful Ph D theses . |
| 11 | The holiday of a lifetime for a group of deprived schoolchildren may have to be cancelled because more than half of their business sponsors have gone bust in the recession . |
| 12 | I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ? |
| 13 | To husband that 1.7% of our income we have had to close half of our operating sessions , a third of our operating theatres , and a sixth of our beds , most of them surgical . |
| 14 | ‘ So far we have trained about half of our powder development team in experimental design techniques , helped by , of the Courtauld New Coatings Technologies Group . |
| 15 | Probably more than half of our VDU operator chairs will meet the standard , but we should urgently check all workstation environments using the standard EC/HSE assessment forms . |
| 16 | Tiny Rowland , Lonrho 's chief executive , has said he will sell half of his 15% stake in Lonrho to Dieter Bock , a German financier ; the deal will cost £50m . |
| 17 | toilet training and , well not toilet training but reminding to go to the toilet , look at his hat did you read in the paper that George Best has had to spend half of his testimonial money on debts |
| 18 | I 'm offering you half of your money back and a thirty percent discount for next year , in return for your support . |
| 19 | Edouard had already begun his campaign to persuade his mother to divert some of her capital holdings into an expansion programme for de Chavigny , but he knew he had to proceed slowly . |
| 20 | When Sr. Mary FCJ left the parish she sent some of her presentation present to a boy in Sierra Leone , Sahr Joseph Mamoh . |
| 21 | In the transplant operation , doctors in London will extract some of her bone marrow and take it to the Netherlands . |
| 22 | A Danish yawl had been wrecked on the far side of the island two years before and Bonefish had rescued some of her oak timbers which he had scarfed in to Masquerade 's broken hull . |
| 23 | She spoke of some of those investments now , in particular some of her land investments in Texas , which her American advisers were counselling her to sell . |
| 24 | She said that some of her council members were worried about the effect my outfit would have on the young girl athletes who were running at the meeting . |
| 25 | She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing . |
| 26 | Here my grandmother used to store some of her apple crop . |
| 27 | ‘ Some of her college friends will be joining the party , ’ a fellow undergraduate tells me . |
| 28 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 29 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |
| 30 | Some of her class members showed four short items and KFA teachers present were so impressed that they have invited Marlene to teach at their Teacher Training Course in November . |