Example sentences of "[num] of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over two-thirds of respondents were against a prohibition of the kind proposed in the paper , and a clear majority of local law societies were unsympathetic . |
| 2 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 3 | HUNDREDS of jobs are to be lost at a North West chemical firm . |
| 4 | Billions of dollars are at our disposal . |
| 5 | Almost all of the designated districts had declared at least one improvement area , and about one-quarter of declarations were in commercial or commercial/ industrial areas . |
| 6 | Millions of pounds are at stake and one side is certain to receive a bloody nose . |
| 7 | HUNDREDS of millions of pounds are at risk . |
| 8 | Its heroes are household names and millions of pounds are at stake when it is staged . |
| 9 | Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk . |
| 10 | A bribe of many millions of dollars was to be paid for a hostage , Peter Kilburn , by giving the captors a suitcase full of chemically treated bills ; after a few days , the bills would moulder away . |
| 11 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 12 | Not all of these charges may be taken as evidence of ‘ litigiousness ’ , for one-quarter to one-third of prosecutions were for regulatory offences , such as gambling and tax evasion , which were normally prosecuted by the police or other government agencies . |
| 13 | Each has been the victim of the recession , the debenture memberships of several thousands of pounds being beyond the pocket of most golfers . |
| 14 | Thousands of beehives are at risk after a deadly parasite was found in more colonies , experts warned yesterday . |
| 15 | Thousands of birds are under threat because of a delay in designating a proposed site in the Peak District as an Environmentally Sensitive Area ( ESA ) . |
| 16 | This is considerably less than the numbers found in the animal equivalent , sarcoptic mange , where literally thousands of mites are to be found . |
| 17 | THOUSANDS of leaflets are to be distributed among employees across the Group to raise the profile of the Heartwatch scheme . |
| 18 | By the time the order to push forward was given , Turkish forces had moved up ; and here also thousands of lives were to be lost to gain positions which had , in effect , already been won . |
| 19 | Thousands of cars are to be lost as the Ford Motor Company extends its short-time working policy into October . |
| 20 | Because of the haphazard way infertility is managed , thousands of couples are in a similar situation . |
| 21 | Has she seen the Quakers report which states that tens of thousands of children are in jeopardy and thousands will die because of the lack of essential medicines ? |
| 22 | THOUSANDS of jobs are at risk as the Tories ‘ sleepwalk ’ their way through Britain 's crippling economic crisis , Labour warned yesterday . |
| 23 | CIVIL service unions in Wales fear thousands of jobs are in jeopardy from Government plans to contract out services . |
| 24 | Many of the records of insects represent an extension of the known range of the particular species : three species of bees , five of aculeate wasps and 20 of hoverflies are among many new records for Leicestershire ; the cuckoo wasp , Vespula austriaca , is new to central England ; there is the most southerly record of a calliphorid fly , which is common in Scotland ; at least eight species of Ichneumonidae and five of Serphidae are new to Britain ; and two ichneumonids are probably new to science . |
| 25 | DOZENS of men are to be exposed as clients of vice girl Kathy Willets after a court ruled her little black book can be made public . |