Example sentences of "the [adj] proportion of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distortions which occur under a system of all but exclusively local authority house-building — the tendency to conform to the past rather than the future location of population ( with consequent immobilisation of labour ) , the wrong proportion of houses of different sizes , and the provision of more amenities than those for which tenants are prepared to pay the economic price — these will naturally correct themselves when private building is restored . |
| 2 | The editorial policies admit of no bias towards publishing papers on the geology of the British Isles , and so the high proportion of papers on Scottish geology reflects the intrinsic interest of the subject . |
| 3 | The editorial policies admit of no bias towards publishing papers on the geology of the British Isles , and so the high proportion of papers on Scottish geology reflects the intrinsic interest of the subject . |
| 4 | The high proportion of adults with cystic fibrosis in non-manual occupations may reflect selection or response bias . |
| 5 | More fundamentally , it is the high proportion of immigrants in this school which is responsible for the lowering of standards . |
| 6 | The high proportion of carbohydrates in the leaves makes them an ideal target for creatures that bite and suck out the energy rich sap . |
| 7 | There was a problem about the diminishing proportion of savings from ward closures as the hospitals got smaller , but here the RHA had every reason to leave the issue for provider and receiver districts to sort out between them . |
| 8 | which is such that the proportion of members of your sex who can comply is considerably smaller than the corresponding proportion of members of the opposite sex ; |
| 9 | Illustrates the increased proportion of women with leg ulcers in the higher age groups . |
| 10 | Yet the current proportion of civilians to soldiers in the UN-led force is one to a hundred . |
| 11 | More women than men had children , although the small proportion of men with children confirms their limited involvement in family relationships . |
| 12 | The insignificant proportion of men in the £3 — £9 range would appear on the face of things to betoken no handicraft beyond what would suffice to satisfy demand in a small hundred , while the many nils , amounting to very nearly one-third of the total , strongly suggests that many of the inhabitants of Walsingham were mendicants subsisting on the alms of the faithful . |