Example sentences of "[no cls] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allianz AG Holding , the West German insurer , is to pay Fr6.5bn ( £644.8m ) for 50 per cent of the insurance assets of the French financial and industrial holding concern Compagnie de Navigation Mixte . |
| 2 | Batrec , set up in May 1989 by several Swiss cantons , uses a system developed by the Japanese company Sumitomo Heavy Industries , which allows 95 per cent of the component parts to be reused . |
| 3 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 4 | Between them the major Dutch breeds ( black-and-whites and the red-and-white dual-purpose Meuse-Rhine-Yssel ) account for 99 per cent of the dairy cows in the Netherlands today , with the black-and-whites averaging more than 6,800kg at 4.4 per cent butterfat , the MRY 6,000kg at 4.3 per cent and the less common Groningen Whiteheaded about 5,700kg at 4.2 per cent . |
| 5 | Again , among undergraduates in universities we find only 9 per cent of the fulltime places in engineering and technology taken by women , yet they fill 69 per cent of those in language , literature and area studies ( as table 4.4 shows ) . |
| 6 | Over 90 per cent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years . |
| 7 | In universities , women took 41 per cent of the under-graduate places in 1983–4 , a significant improvement over the 28 per cent of such places in 1965–6 . |
| 8 | The acquisition of Walker will put British Steel on a par with its rivals in Germany and France which control up to 70 per cent of the stockholding outlets through which their steel is sold to industrial customers . |
| 9 | They will also receive the benefit of 60 per cent of the infrastructure profits on all the other business . |
| 10 | These people will still be entitled to all the investment returns on the with-profits element of their investment — which accounts on average for about half of all investment into UWP contracts — but they will only be entitled to 60 per cent of the infrastructure profits on both the with-profits and the unit-linked business . |
| 11 | As to the loss of 40 per cent of the infrastructure profits of new and existing unitised with-profits , unit linked and non with-profits business , the theory is that a 60 per cent stake in an expanding cake is better than a 100 per cent slice of a stagnant one . |
| 12 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | It must also seek the permission of the Charity Commissioners , because of a scheme set up in 1986 under which the Trust must not hold less than 50 per cent of the voting rights of Wellcome . |
| 14 | A partial offer is a takeover offer which is for less than 100 per cent of the voting rights of the target company . |
| 15 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 16 | When the acceptance condition ( ie acceptance in respect of over 50 per cent of the voting rights in the target ) attached to an offer is satisfied , the offer is described as being unconditional as to acceptances . |
| 17 | Though BA would have only 15 per cent of the voting shares in United , the second-largest US airline , its investment represents almost 80 per cent of the equity in the deal . |
| 18 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |