Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older . |
| 2 | The total milk yield might seem small in comparison with that of a Holstein at an average of more than 4,000kg per lactation , but the solids content is very high , with an average 5.3 per cent butterfat , so that the total yield of solids compares favourably . |
| 3 | At any one time , then , the total quantity of plants in the sea may seem relatively small . |
| 4 | But if the total variety of creatures is so great and the |
| 5 | But , it must be stressed , this is not a call for the total abolition of animals from the research laboratory . |
| 6 | Instead , the Partnership Programmes consisted largely of lists of social , economic , recreational and other projects for formal Partnership approval , which was usually forthcoming subject to the total availability of resources . |
| 7 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 8 | After a survey of 140 local authorities , the RIBA concluded that the total backlog of repairs and maintenance work to the public sector housing stock was in excess of £10 billion . |
| 9 | An alternative way of examining harmonic distortion is to display the total spectrum of frequencies on an oscilloscope ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 10 | The total cost of incentives to the taxpayer for private forestry in 1988 was approximately £20 million . |
| 11 | Obtain the total cost of products used in the package from trial data based on consumption and price . |
| 12 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 13 | Yet paradoxically , the conditions governing award of a pension should encourage the older people to continue working in order to reduce the total cost of pensions , and thus the scheme adjusted to the differing capacities of individuals to work in old age . |
| 14 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 15 | In 1982 crude oil accounted for more than half the total cost of imports . |
| 16 | ITEMISED as follows : total cost of the feeder main ; total cost of low pressure main in individual villages , including installing governors ; and the total cost of services to be laid . |
| 17 | The total cost of materials A , B and C purchased . |
| 18 | The total cost of materials A , B and C purchased : |
| 19 | A quick , simple costing exercise revealed that the total cost of accidents was in excess of £1 million per year , and that accidents costing more than £2 million were occurring every two or three years . |
| 20 | The total cost of accidents and failures was around 10% of turnover . |
| 21 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |
| 22 | In theory , but not usually in practice , the total mass of products of a chemical process should equal the total mass of reactants used in the process . |
| 23 | The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process . |
| 24 | In theory , but not usually in practice , the total mass of products of a chemical process should equal the total mass of reactants used in the process . |
| 25 | The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process . |
| 26 | Proteins , which generally comprise about half the total mass of biomembranes , determine the specific membrane functions . |
| 27 | The possibility that relative antral hypoacidity induced by regular smoking produces an increase in parietal cell mass via a feedback mechanism mediated by gastrin is discussed : such a mechanism would explain the previously reported positive correlation between maximal gastric secretion of acid and the total dose of cigarettes . |
| 28 | By June the total capital of companies floated in a single week reached £224 million , and South Sea stock , floated at 110 , had reached an astonishing peak of 1,050 , spearheading a speculative mania of spurious company flotation . |
| 29 | A young daughter will help her father distribute game or follow her mother into the fields , but by the age of 9 or 10 girls are participating in the total range of tasks normal to female status . |
| 30 | consider that in certain circumstances one would expect laterality scores to correlate with overall accuracy scores , they favour the use of an index of laterality that is independent of accuracy in the sense that the values which the index might take within the total range of values possible is not " constrained " by any given level of accuracy . |