Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emigrant workers , regardless of ethnicity , were more often accused of property crime , while some localities near the south-western coast produced a large proportion of violent offenders . |
| 2 | In her capacity as a pedagogue , Krupskaia discovered a high proportion of illiterates among the factory workers of the Vyborg raion . |
| 3 | Between 1900 and 1913 production in Europe rose from 2.5 to 6.3 million tons annually ( but here too , United States production meant that the later figure represented a smaller proportion of total world output than the earlier ) . |
| 4 | ‘ However , it was interesting to discover that the sales department contained a high proportion of those born under the sign of Aries and Gemini ; that the accounts department seemed to be mainly staffed by Virgos and Capricorns — all very careful with their own money , as well as the company 's ! ’ |
| 5 | Figure 1 shows that distribution of authorship number was similar for Nature and Cell , although Cell had a higher proportion of studies with three to five authors . |
| 6 | As far as the 1975 election is concerned VUPP had a greater proportion of seats than was warranted by its first preference vote for two reasons . |
| 7 | In both factions Jews were prominent , but only the Mensheviks attracted a significant proportion of minority nationals , especially Georgians and Ukrainians . |
| 8 | Alan included a high proportion of Innocent 's rulings ( 345 chapters out of 484 ) and 314 of his chapters found their way into later collections , being seen as important and useful . |
| 9 | Many of the Trust 's famous gardens lost a high proportion of their specimen trees and structural plantings , and , most serious of all , places like Lanhydrock and Trengwainton in Cornwall , Kingston Lacy in Dorset and Knightshayes in Devon lost large sections of their shelter belts and woodlands , leaving the gardens prone to future gales and further deterioration of their micro-climates . |
| 10 | The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle . |
| 11 | Traditionally , county councils have been more preservationist-minded than many of their local district councils , often because their membership showed a higher proportion of large landowners who had a keen interest in preserving the countryside , even before concern for the environment became a fashionable issue . |
| 12 | The CLO study group included a greater proportion of non-smokers and non-drinkers than the severe reflux oesophagitis group , strong evidence against smoking and alcohol as pathogenic factors for CLO . |
| 13 | The sheltered shore enclaves contained a high proportion of adults , giving the impression of comparative longevity ( an alternative interpretation would suggest higher juvenile mortality ) . |
| 14 | Paddington was essentially a station for mixed general traffic , but foodstuffs of various kinds formed a large proportion of incoming merchandise . |
| 15 | The specialist team closed a larger proportion of cases within six months , and the specialist worker kept open a strikingly larger number of cases beyond nine months . |
| 16 | The price of bread cereals , on which labouring families spent a vast proportion of their wages , fluctuated wildly . |
| 17 | Thus , children in our classroom practice sample spent a high proportion of their time working when they were engaged in tasks which involved talking to the class , talking to the teacher , construction , listening or collaboration . |
| 18 | Sinus or supraventriuclar rhythms spent a smaller proportion of time away from the baseline that the sinusoidal rhythms of VT or VF . |
| 19 | In his presentation Vic covered a good proportion of the East Anglian network , lines such as King 's Lynn — Liverpool Street , Norwich — Liverpool Street , going through Thetford and Ely with its cathedral ( known as ‘ The Ship of the Fens ’ ) , King 's Cross — Cambridge via Royston , Norwich — Ipswich , and one or two freight branches such as the one to the cement works at Barrington , with its Rolls-Royce diesel shunters , and a line to a sugarbeet factory , now closed . |
| 20 | These liberal dailies employed a high proportion of Jewish journalists , a number of whom as critics helped create an audience for the new movements in painting , theatre , literature , and music . |
| 21 | Wealthy people paid a large proportion of the taxes , however , and there was a levelling upwards of income . |
| 22 | Nineteenth Century publications contained a higher proportion of items needing treatment ( 27% ) than publications from either earlier or later periods . |
| 23 | In line with ITA recommendations , its board contained a high proportion of professional TV executives . |
| 24 | Japan shredded a large proportion of the dolphins it hunted and turned them into fertiliser . |
| 25 | In most respects , Britain spent a smaller proportion of the annual budget on welfare than did continental European countries with a system financed from contributory sources or with a greater mix of public and private provision . |
| 26 | In the past , the more affluent in society spent a high proportion of their income buying services provided by relatively poorly paid workers . |
| 27 | The 58% who identified less dependence on farm income as a benefit represented those for whom the farm provided a considerable proportion of total income but which could not provide a living income on its own . |
| 28 | The sale attracted a large proportion of new faces not normally seen at Old Master sales , attracted by the Spanish subject matter and willing to purchase works which were by no means new to the market in a number of cases . |
| 29 | As for the A-level entrants , those with higher A-level point scores obtained a higher proportion of good degrees . |
| 30 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |