Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our democracy is to retain popular support and respect , it seems vital that the 60pc of voters regularly voting for change are given some opportunity to bring their ideals and values to bear on society . |
| 2 | According to the Training and Employment Agency , some 44pc of fifth-formers now choose to stay on at school . |
| 3 | Despite this , a pilot survey indicated that 10% of drivers still forget to lock all doors , shut all windows or lock the boot . |
| 4 | Broadcast data via satellites also have a wide band width enabling good data transmission . |
| 5 | Converting data into information thus requires knowledge . |
| 6 | During the mid-1950s , at a time when continental drift was not seriously considered by most earth scientists , new evidence in the form of palaeomagnetic data from rocks again began to bring into question the notion of stationary continents . |
| 7 | With these changes , and after setting suitable formats , you can see that amount actually deposited by putting £1 per month away starting in 1900 is only worth £199 . |
| 8 | It examines court divorce records and data on divorce already held by the Registrar General for Scotland . |
| 9 | Difficulties in interpreting data on Eurocurrency often lead to problems in assessing the market 's economic influence . |
| 10 | Working on those figures , he predicted that 58pc of double deckers , 52pc of single deckers and 92pc of minibuses currently operated by the six major companies would need to be replaced by mid 1996 . |
| 11 | It 's reckoned that 80% of people only read the headline , so it 's important that you put your name in it , or at least have your name strongly upfront . |
| 12 | While approximately 80% of revenues still come from mainframe-related work , Haines sees open systems as a major growth area because , he says , MMT 's customers are generally drifting in that direction . |
| 13 | So , for example , for a 40% taxpayer , £1,000 of investment effectively costs only £600 . |
| 14 | Figures show that more than 12% of children permanently excluded from city schools last year were black . |
| 15 | Only 4% of organisations never keep paper copies of electronic documents and over 20% always keep copies . ’ |
| 16 | Milosevic and Gajic ( 1986 ) found even lower recall percentages in a similar study , with between 2% and 20% of drivers correctly identifying the previous sign and never more than 6% of drivers able to correctly identify the sign before last . |
| 17 | In 1844 one auxiliary corps of artillery still stood guard on the city walls at night , and they disturbed many people with their noisy alerts . |
| 18 | Boards under 3.00m in length normally use only the gybing and high wind straps . |
| 19 | ‘ I am going to arrange a van to transport that fish to Berkeley so get it up on the bank . ’ |
| 20 | Evaluation returns from the 1990 cohort ( 2,966 ) shows that 96% of teachers and 93% of companies reported that briefings successfully prepared them for a placement , while 89% of teachers successfully met their placement objectives . |
| 21 | Around 38% of shops currently stay open on a Sunday . |
| 22 | The systems division is still not profitable after charging research and development expenditure , but services — technical support , third-party maintenance , consulting , are said to be very profitable and represent 30% of receivables all told . |
| 23 | Type I diabetes is associated with HLA-DR3 and DR4 , and up to 30% of diabetics also have Dupuytren 's disease . |
| 24 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 25 | Those scenes and others outside the murder investigation headquarters in Bootle yesterday prompted an appeal for calm from the Bulger family and the police . |
| 26 | A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded . |
| 27 | Management from the Lancashire plant were at DAF headquarters in Eindhoven yesterday to discuss their proposed buy-out with the Dutch board . |
| 28 | In a deliberate attempt to embarrass Tories and High Anglicans , he cited Charles II 's Declaration of April 1681 , which had condemned the then Whig-dominated House of Commons for arresting people for matters not relating to Parliamentary privilege , whilst in defence of the right of petitioning he cited the case of the seven bishops of 1688 . |
| 29 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 30 | THE PEOPLE of Montenegro yesterday welcomed home the remains of Nicholas I , their first and last king , after 70 years ' exile in Italy , in belated fulfilment of his last will and testament . |