Example sentences of "[adj] of [det] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can teach yourself half of that 's about my stamp . |
| 2 | In 1980 , only 4.4% of tropical forest was under active management , and half of that was in India . |
| 3 | About half of these are in urban localities , with designations in Hartlepool ( Cleveland ) , Dudley , the Isle of Dogs , Rotherham ( S. Yorks . ) , |
| 4 | Even at the end of the nineteenth century infant mortality still accounted for almost one death in five , Almost half of these were from diarrhoea and related gastro-enteric infections : dysentery , ‘ colic ’ , ‘ convulsions ’ , ‘ griping in the guts ’ , infantile summer diarrhoea . |
| 5 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 6 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 7 | Er six twenty for the sale of badges fancy some of that was from a previous year . |
| 8 | Some of these are worth highlighting in greater detail as a means of contextualizing the data and illustrating some of the social processes operating upon them . |
| 9 | Because of the patchy nature of the fossil record many species ( particularly of large vertebrate animals ) are known from only one specimen ; some of these are of almost inestimable value , which is why museums have to take good care of their material . |
| 10 | Some of these are at a museum in Santorini which , the book says , is ‘ considered unsuitable for visitors ’ . |
| 11 | I do wonder if some of these are in fact the wild plum rather than Myrobalan , and I marvel that in summer we hardly notice any plum-like shrubs where we now see them so dominant over long stretches of banks . |
| 12 | There are at present in Britain something like 120,000 police and although some of these are in the Fraud Squad , they represent an exceedingly small per cent of the force , and in any case , the majority of their work consists of monitoring and prosecuting white collar rather than corporate criminals . |
| 13 | Some of these are in fundamental disagreement with the assumption on which the rational-planning or objectives models rest . |
| 14 | Some of these are in exceptionally good condition . |
| 15 | We have created a considerable number of new jobs in south Norfolk ; regrettably , some of these were at the expense of people affected by the closure of the Ipswich site , but nevertheless , such opportunities in a rural environment have been viewed very positively by the local community . |
| 16 | Some of these were to be offered as votives in the temple 's sanctuaries : others entered a trading network which might take them to the farthest ends of the island or overseas . |
| 17 | Thus a type description might present a comprehensive array of structures and give each of them equal descriptive weight , but a token description might well reveal that some of these were of rare occurrence , or restricted to a realization through a limited range of lexical items , almost exclusively confined to certain contexts , or associated with certain meanings . |
| 18 | The most popular of these is for a one-off gig between a band and a venue , part of which is reproduced here . |
| 19 | The most interesting of these is from the Persian king himself , regulating the details of the Jewish passover . |
| 20 | For their second book , they interviewed 700 mothers of four-year-old children , but only 275 of these were from the original sample ( Newson and Newson 1968 ) . |
| 21 | We have 15,000 employees and 7,000 of these are in membership services , with 5,500 in insurance . |
| 22 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 23 | If there are tw if there are twelve crotchets and each of those are in groups of three . |
| 24 | Only nine oesophageal perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation treatments ( procedure related incidence 0.58% ) , and eight of these were in the corrosive stricture group . |
| 25 | Only nine perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation sessions ( procedure related incidence of perforation 0.58% ) in the whole group ; eight of these were in the corrosive group ( total number of dilatation sessions 990 , procedure related incidence of perforation 0.8% ) . |
| 26 | In the country generally , two-thirds of those are in the C2 , DE categories , which by any socio-economic definition will be the less prosperous end of the market and less able to cope with rises of 17.5 per cent eventually in the cost of a basic part of the household budget . |
| 27 | Much of this is in appalling condition . |
| 28 | The most delicate of all are of shining translucent silica , concentric spheres transfixed by needles , gothic helmets , rococo belfries and spiked space capsules . |
| 29 | Lady Randolph acquired a number of romantic attachments ; the most serious of these was with Count Kinsky , a diplomat in the Austro-Hungarian embassy in London . |
| 30 | Three of these are of major significance : scientism , relativism and religious intolerance . |