Example sentences of "such a [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , we will look at female crime and the reasons why this makes up such a small proportion of known criminality . |
| 2 | Teachers and parents have come to realise that the education of children is a joint responsibility , particularly as children are at school for such a small proportion of their waking lives . |
| 3 | In fact , if deposits and notes and coin fall by an equal amount , then notes and coin will shrink as a proportion of total assets because notes and coin formed such a small proportion of assets to begin with . |
| 4 | With such a small proportion of employed industrial workers in its ranks , the Party had great difficulty in carrying out its work in factory cells and trade-union groups . |
| 5 | By 1900 however , the birth rate was plunging as couples chose to have fewer children , just as improved health had also begun to have a marked impact ; and it is the combination in the twentieth century of a now almost stagnant population of small families with a new fall in death rates which explains the striking rise of over-sixty-year-olds to form over 20 per cent of our population today and why , more than in any previous generation , such a high proportion of them are without children . |
| 6 | Perhaps because such a high proportion of bank or other loans are devoted to car-buying , they turned up less often than other types of credit as a means of financing things bought from shops — much less often in the case of shop chains . |
| 7 | It is not clear why there should be such a high proportion of woodworking tools from Kent , especially the cemetery at Sarre beside the Wantsum Channel , but it may reflect ship-building and repairing as much as more general carpentry . |
| 8 | A government with such a high proportion of its members having first-hand and intimate knowledge of prison life is rare , and explains , in part , the equally rare views of the Nicaraguan government on the nature of imprisonment . |
| 9 | And in no other country did civil servants ( Beamten ) comprise such a high proportion of the highly educated . |
| 10 | In view of the much publicised claims of skill shortages for IT staff in 1984 , It was rather surprising to find such a high proportion of Advanced Course students still seeking employment at the end of their courses . |
| 11 | The conclusion Sampson draws from this is that it is extremely difficult to determine the boundary between what is grammatical and ungrammatical if such a high proportion of grammatical expansions are very rare . |
| 12 | Few other Oxford colleges are able to claim such a high proportion of donors among their alumni . |
| 13 | Yet this was a period when the English Civil War was at its height ; from the coins themselves we would never have suspected that such a large proportion of minting in the war years of 1639–47 was the result of a commercial agreement between the two countries and not just of the high levels of expenditure caused by the war . |
| 14 | Because so many people in the West eat such a large proportion of their daily calories in the form of refined sugary and starchy foods , it was found that , when these foods were strictly rationed , daily calorie intake usually automatically dropped sufficiently to achieve weight loss . |
| 15 | The oil crisis has brought into focus the legitimacy of the West consuming such a large proportion of such an important non-renewable resource . |
| 16 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 17 | The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | This would provide , in some people 's view , a fairer competition between state and private education , and lead to a reduction in the need for the state to provide such a large proportion of the service . |
| 19 | That the number of town dwellers grew and that such a large proportion of output could be made over to the ruling class without permanent and chronic nationwide famine or substantial evidence of huge tax arrears suggest that peasants continued to produce well above subsistence level . |
| 20 | That such a large proportion of the types in the news wire sample were not found in the W7 dictionary is a worrying statistic . |
| 21 | and er , and as a result , you know , institutes , the wages in government bodies tend to be quite high , and because gov government bodies represent such a large proportion of er , non- agricultural employment they , they represent a much more sort of , a much more potent influence than they would do in a , in a developed country where the government sector is much , much smaller . |
| 22 | Because the poorer elderly spent such a large proportion of their income on fuel , she added , they would face stark choices if the cost rose . |
| 23 | No other European country has such a large proportion of its workforce without any qualifications at all . |
| 24 | Three , we fail to understand why it is necessary or desirable for such a large proportion of this subscription to go out of our institute to County and National Funds . |
| 25 | IT IS a rather puzzling irony that in a country where we are apparently so obsessed with our homes , such a huge proportion of our new houses are mass produced boxes which are put up speculatively by developers who have little knowledge of their end customers ' needs and requirements . |