Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 56% of doctors are in private practice ; |
| 2 | Looking more closely at the authorities who directly budgeted money , 90% of counties were in this group , and 73% of Outer London authorities ( see Table 18 ) . |
| 3 | Headquarters of Fibres is at Harrogate , with manufacturing at Doncaster , Pontypool and Gloucester in UK and Oestringen in Germany . |
| 4 | Only 63% of marriages were between a bachelor and spinster in 1989 , compared with 79% in 1971 . |
| 5 | 59% of respondents were against this proposal , of whom 86% were sole practitioners . |
| 6 | Overall , 72% of referrals were from surgeons and 64% of referred patients were men . |
| 7 | In a place like Kingston-upon-Hull in Humberside , 68% of homes are in the lowest ( £40,000 and under ) band , and fewer than 1% are in either of the top two bands ( more than £120,000 ) . |
| 8 | Some 39 per cent of the population of Slovakia is opposed to the continued construction of nuclear power plants in the republic , according to a poll conducted by the Slovak Academy of Sciences ; 31 percent of respondents were in favour of construction , while 30 percent had no view . |
| 9 | In the 1984–88 series , 38% of carcinomas were of type I ( diffuse ) , 55.7% type II ( intestinal ) , and 6.3% mixed . |
| 10 | One other noticeable feature was that nearly 30% of participants were from institutions outside the United Kingdom , with Australia , Austria , Brazil , Canada , Denmark , Eire , Greece , Hong Kong , India , Italy , Netherlands , Norway , Slovenia , South Africa and the U.S.A. all represented . |
| 11 | Mrs Robinson referred to figures given to Labour 's Hilary Armstrong and said only 25pc of children were in special nursery classes , while the 48pc figure included under-fives in school as well . |
| 12 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 13 | cos if you , they say the best time to buy a pair of shoes is at night when your sh when your feet are really swollen . |
| 14 | In this last case there would , of course be no indication to the foreign learner that the pair of words was to be treated as a compound . |
| 15 | She waited until the pair of animals was within hail , then called out politely : " How very kind of you , dear Mr Jackal , to bring me such a nice fat tiger ! |
| 16 | Each pair of interpreters was in a small booth by the Dortmund platform with one microphone , a cut-off button and a television showing the broadcast picture . |
| 17 | In 1985 , 55% of all people aged over 85 lived alone , but for men it was only 37% while 61% of women were in this position . |
| 18 | They earned an average weekly wage of 47 colones ( US$18.8 ) : 39% of the workforce were women , and 14% of females and 16% of males were below the age of 15 . |
| 19 | In addition , for those involved on a journey of spiritual exploration and discovery , a series of regressions is of great benefit as it brings to light the pattern so far and allows the patient to make decisions about how he intends to progress . |
| 20 | These graduate from N36 to N5 which is the size of print found in the standard telephone directory ; the first books in the ‘ Ladybird ’ series of readers are in N36 print . |
| 21 | Most are working in central London , some also in one or two other major cities , since it is only there that the sort of prestigious hotels and banqueting suites which can mount an almost unbroken series of events are to be found . |