Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is the convertibility aspect that attracts people to hold a certain proportion of their wealth in financial assets . |
| 32 | People desire to hold a certain proportion of their assets in money form . |
| 33 | The WEU spent much of the period from mid-1990 to mid-1991 in redefining its role and its aspirations in the light of the generally decreasing level of superpower tensions , and particularly in the light of the United States ' plans to withdraw a large proportion of its troops from NATO bases in Europe . |
| 34 | We could not identify all such workers as complete records have not survived and instead used the closest approximations possible — namely , records incorporating home address of all those ( more than 17000 ) attending the medical centre at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland during its construction phase ( believed to represent a high proportion of all but short stay workers ) ; 3500 construction workers at the Flotta oil terminal in Orkney ( incomplete data ) ; and more than 10000 offshore workers , being all those who obtained an offshore survival certificate ( required for such work ) in Scotland in the period from June 1976 ( the earliest date for which records have not been destroyed ) to 1980 . |
| 35 | The crucial thing is to have a certain proportion of museum quality consignments , such as the Caspar David Friedrich ( ‘ Spaziergang in der Abenddammerung ’ ) , the Wilhelm von Kobell ( ‘ Reiter am Tegernsee ’ ) and the Emil Nolde ( ‘ Sonnenblumenbild I ’ ) in hand . |
| 36 | In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls . |
| 37 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 38 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 39 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the United Kingdom is fortunate to have a large proportion of world-beating , world-class companies ? |
| 40 | If so , you 'll probably want to have a high proportion of the mighty Imperial cavalry units , at least one steam tank and probably the war wagon as well . |
| 41 | Women are generally smaller then men but even if a man and a woman are the same height and weight , the woman is likely to have a smaller proportion of muscle . |
| 42 | Looking ahead , Italy 's reserves of some 174 bcm will continue to supply a similar proportion of domestic consumption . |
| 43 | One of the current concerns is the pressure within many agencies — both official and private — to raise a higher proportion of their income by selling data . |
| 44 | This is partly because poorer groups in the population tend to pay a higher proportion of their income in indirect taxes than richer ones . |
| 45 | If the lease contains a comprehensive service charge the landlord should undertake responsibility for repair of party structures ; if it does not , each adjoining tenant should be liable to carry out repairs and to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairs carried out by the other . |
| 46 | The tenant 's liability to carry out repairs will be covered by a covenant to keep " the demised property " in repair ; but a covenant to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing party structures not included in the demise must be separately imposed . |
| 47 | Example 2:5 Declaration as to party structures It is hereby agreed that : ( 1 ) one half in thickness of every internal wall floor and ceiling separating the demised property from any adjoining property is included in this demise ( 2 ) each such structure is a party structure ( 3 ) the tenant shall maintain each of them as such and shall be liable to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing or maintaining any such structure which shall have been incurred by any adjoining occupier or tenant or by the landlord such proportion to be determined ( in default of agreement ) by an arbitrator appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| 48 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that not only has the Conservative party demonstrated that it is willing to spend a greater proportion of gross national product , but , by continuing to expand our economy , we have surpassed the Labour party bid at the 1987 election — when it said that it would increase spending on the national health service by 3 per cent . |
| 49 | He can usually take for granted initial student motivation , educational level and intelligence ; he is part of a system which already expects the student to spend a considerable proportion of his time in private study , and which usually provides at least minimal facilities for this to take place . |
| 50 | People choose to spend a high proportion of their disposable income on buying and running a car because car ownership enhances their lives . |
| 51 | Poorer households are known to spend a larger proportion of their income on essentials such as food and fuel for heating . |
| 52 | Furthermore , over the same period there was a shift towards indirect taxation , which tends to take a greater proportion of the income of lower than higher income groups . |
| 53 | To take a similar proportion of everyone 's income away will not affect individuals ' capacities to express their preferences between goods or services though it does bias their choices between goods and leisure . |
| 54 | Broadly , the declines in the concentration ratio have tended to occur during periods of market growth , while the rises have corresponded to recessions , suggesting that high levels of bond issues lead to a more even spread of issues between firms as well as new entry , while in slack periods the dominant houses tend to take a larger proportion of issues , smaller houses being squeezed out . |
| 55 | There are so many suffixes that it will only be possible here to examine a small proportion of them ; we will concentrate on those which are common and productive ( that is , are applied to a considerable number of stems and could be applied to more to make new English words ) . |
| 56 | Farmers were required to make ‘ tie ridges ’ which conserved moisture within the soil , to manure a certain proportion of their fields , and to plant a specified minimum acreage of cotton and cassava . |
| 57 | Healthy twins from ulcerative colitis pairs tended to show a raised proportion of IgG1 cells and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly reduced ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 58 | The choice the Institution had therefore to face was either to accept poorer intellectual material at sixteen or to recruit a higher proportion of sixth formers . |