Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gearbox and clutch failures account for 16pc of claims , steering and suspension problems 9pc , and electrical and fuel-system faults , 16pc . |
| 2 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 3 | And some housekeeping tasks under DB2 3.1 such as reorganisation of the database are expected to take less time . |
| 4 | Erm as you say Mr Campbell er the plan at the moment is that the F two thousand will replace jaguar and the tornado A D V F three aircraft and the scope er of replacing other aircraft er remains under consideration , er provisional off take of two fifty er was declared at the d the start of the development phase and of course our work share in development is based on that number . |
| 5 | In 1753 , for example , Provost William Christie of Stirling sought Lord Milton 's intervention with Lord Loudoun on behalf of his son-in-law , Ensign Gunning , who wished to purchase from Charles Elphinstone his commission as Lieutenant of Stirling Castle , or if that was not permitted , the commission of the Ensign of the Castle . |
| 6 | His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City . |
| 7 | ‘ However , it is recognised that , even with a totally effective referral system for donation of organs following death , there will not be sufficient organs for the people needing life-saving transplants . |
| 8 | SIR , — Dr Jha and colleagues ( May 1 , p 1116 ) report antibodies against human papillomavirus ( HPV ) 16 E7 peptide ( originally reported by Mueller et al ) among women who had been diagnosed with cervical carcinoma on average 4 years before being contacted for donation of a serum sample . |
| 9 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |
| 10 | Under the existing byelaws , complaints relating to non-reserved work which account for 80% of all the complaints that the Institute receives — can only be investigated against individuals . |
| 11 | The Autoglide can even be used on trackless doors of the canopy variety , which account for 80% of the garage doors installed in the UK , and which conventional garage door openers can not cope with The Autoglide works on a cable principle , with an advanced electronic control box . |
| 12 | The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000 , accounting for 80% of total group turnover . |
| 13 | Its proprietary VME environment accounted for 80% of operating system sales , 65% of information management revenues and 40% of its application business . |
| 14 | By 1989 , it accounted for 80% of profits of £71.4 million . |
| 15 | They accounted for 80% of the prenatal diagnoses in mothers under 35 and 25% of such diagnoses in older women , for whom maternal age is still the most common indication although in these the use of serum screening is increasing . |
| 16 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 17 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 18 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 19 | Religion is presented as a response ‘ everywhere to one and the same need ’ : the need for rituals of fertility . |
| 20 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 21 | Sadly , for reasons of social class , she was not particularly well regarded either . |
| 22 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 23 | ‘ As a child , ’ Claud wrote , ‘ Patricia hunted half the day and in the evenings , supine on a board for reasons of deportment , lay drinking Madeira wine and reading The Golden Bough . ’ |
| 24 | He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian . |
| 25 | Ahidjo decided in 1981 that for reasons of health , he would step down from the presidency but remain chairman of the ruling party , the Union Nationale Camerounaise ( UNC ) . |
| 26 | The hallmarks of Thomas à Kempis 's approach to the religious life are a rigorous inner self-discipline and a conformity , for reasons of humility , to the existing forms of Christianity as met from day to day wherever you happen to be . |
| 27 | A refugee is ‘ a person who , owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race , religion , membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or , owing to such fear , unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ’ , according to the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees . |
| 28 | The losers are those who , for reasons of poverty or principle , decline to partake . |
| 29 | The losers are those who , for reasons of poverty or principle , decline to partake . |
| 30 | It is no wonder , therefore , that many people believe the current delay in publishing the Barrowclough investigation is for reasons of political expediency rather than legalistic necessity . |