Example sentences of "[unc] of [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 15–40% of patients taking it long term develop an asymptomatic hepatic dysfunction , which is both dose dependent and reversible on stopping treatment . |
| 2 | In the 70s , when we were hearing a lot about sexual research , we were told that 14 per cent of women managed it . |
| 3 | All men check their tyres at least once a month but six per cent of women check them less often . |
| 4 | In a recent Community Care survey of SSDs , 82 per cent of departments said they will record unmet need and 59 per cent said they would inform clients of it . |
| 5 | London , by contrast , came bottom with only 62 per cent of respondents saying they were satisfied with their health services . |
| 6 | The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power . |
| 7 | There was disappointing news for advertisers spending heavily on pre-Christmas promotions , with only six per cent of parents saying they were influenced . |
| 8 | SUPPORT for the Maastricht Treaty is lower in Britain than anywhere else in Europe with 62 per cent of Britons saying they would vote against signing . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests . |
| 10 | According to the pre-Budget survey carried out by System 3 for the accountancy firm Ernst & Young , 77 per cent of companies believe they are well placed to lead the country out of recession although most do not feel that the economy has embarked on recovery . |
| 11 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 12 | According to Ofwat , the water industry regulatory body , the " trials do not appear to have caused difficulties , with 91 per cent of householders saying they had no difficulty in affording metered water " . |
| 13 | Consider three facts , arbitrarily chosen — half of all carers are over 65 ; 80 per cent of carers say they had no choice but to become carers ; and for one person in a hundred residential care is vital . |
| 14 | Labour took Thurrock , Gravesham , and Feltham and Heston , in all of which the Sun 's penetration is over 40 per cent , and had one of its biggest swings , 6.8 per cent , in Hayes and Harlington , where 42 per cent of homes buy it . |
| 15 | The pensioner movement is only growing very slowly in Britain and it is hard to imagine the prosperous 20 per cent of pensioners feeling they had much in common with the 40 per cent who are completely dependent on state benefits . |
| 16 | For deciding how to vote , however , only a small plurality preferred television and 40 per cent of voters said they found television and the press equally useful . |
| 17 | Throughout the campaign less than 3 per cent of voters said it was the main issue that should be discussed . |
| 18 | ‘ Over-careful ’ was almost the top-scoring quality — with 48 per cent of men choosing it , and nearly as many following up with ‘ indecisive ’ and ‘ too slow ’ . |
| 19 | Up to 15 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men avoided it altogether . |
| 20 | Perhaps even more significantly , ‘ 56 per cent of women and 57 per cent of men said they had no desire to go out any more than they already do ’ . |