Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] proportion of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been many jealous eyes directed towards Russell who , owing to his association with the College of Arms , was able to attract a fair proportion of the up-market trade within London . |
| 2 | Many schemes are funded for three to five years and , although some tapering mechanisms may allow continued but limited funding thereafter , in the long run local authorities may have to bear a larger proportion of total expenditure if schemes are to continue . |
| 3 | As the insurance companies could expect a huge increased revenue , they in turn could be expected to bear a large proportion of the cost of implementing the scheme . |
| 4 | Patients with established colorectal cancer had a lower faecal concentration of the primary bile acid chenodeoxycholate and were found to excrete a higher proportion of secondary bile acids , compared with both controls and polyps . |
| 5 | The bill requires franchise holders to provide a reasonable proportion of high quality programmes and a diverse service to appeal to a wide variety of interests , and sets a performance bond to guarantee promises are kept . |
| 6 | The idea was to provide a large proportion of the teacher 's training on the job . |
| 7 | It is often possible to tile a large proportion of the wall for guaranteed case of maintenance . |
| 8 | It will become increasingly important for farmers to obtain a greater proportion of their income from the market . |
| 9 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 10 | As Table 13 shows , although 20th Century publications , taken as a whole , are known to contain a low proportion of defective items ( 3% ) , they make up significantly more than a third ( 41.6% ) of all defective items issued , simply because more than eight out of every ten issues ( 82.6% ) are 20th Century publications . |
| 11 | They may be concentrated naturally as in animal tissues like bone , blood , hoof and horn , or processed to contain a high proportion of one or more nutrients , or they may be bulky and contain very little as in plant tissues like peat , compost and leaf mould . |
| 12 | Unfortunately it is not cheap or readily obtainable , bearing in mind that with the radiometer it might be necessary to screen a considerable proportion of a growth room . |
| 13 | The situation will only improve if first , recipient governments are able to allocate a higher proportion of the time of capable civil servants to the allocation of in-coming aid ; second , if donor governments and agencies dovetail their country lending programmes more closely with the medium-term budgetary plans of the recipient countries ; and third , if recipient governments are more careful in interpreting the priorities of their own small farmers and other small-scale producers . |
| 14 | These would include such features as : allowing the child to initiate a high proportion of interactions : providing conversational bridges — " turnabouts " as Kaye and Charney ( 1980 ) call them — which both respond to the child 's previous utterance and invite him or her to say more ; making reference predominantly to the child 's or to joint activities ; and responding to the child 's utterances with extensions , which both confirm the acceptability of his or her contribution and help them to pursue the topic further . |
| 15 | Finally , in contrast to the previous characteristics , there are modifications which seem to have a more didactic function : corrections , display questions and a tendency on the part of the adult to initiate a high proportion of topics , and to pursue them at the expense of the topics that the child might wish to introduce . |
| 16 | Both imply a market economy but , whereas even before the triumph of capitalism most large estates operated as productive units exist to sell a large proportion of their output , most peasant holdings , being primarily self-sustaining , do not . |
| 17 | The great advantage which officers of East Indiamen possessed over their counterparts in less favoured ships was their customary right to own a certain proportion of the cargo carried , and to sell that share at the end of the voyage for their own profit . |
| 18 | It is anticipated that borrowing of this nature will continue to constitute a large proportion of future cross-border lending . |
| 19 | Harold ( Never Had It So Good ) Macmillan , Minister of Housing and Local Government , introduced a scheme in 1954 to help people buy houses through building societies who were allowed to advance a larger proportion of the price , now rapidly soaring , than hitherto . |
| 20 | They need to have genetic material , pollen , transported from one individual plant to another and they are prepared to sacrifice a substantial proportion of it as food to those that will do the job . |
| 21 | Together with the agreement that led to the lifting of the Ad Valorem duties , which required US companies to invest a certain proportion of their earnings in Britain , Eady led to a considerable increase in British-based American production . |
| 22 | In contrast to these concentrations of managerial , professional and technical workers in the south and east , in the regions of ‘ the north ’ workers in direct production ( whether in manufacturing or services ) tend to form a higher proportion of the total population . |
| 23 | Residents with some degree of mental impairment are likely to form a high proportion of those in a residential home , given that most old people in care are over eighty , and one in five of those over eighty are likely to suffer from dementia ( Norman , 1987a ) . |
| 24 | Some people simply have more energy than others , while others decide to put a higher proportion of their energy into their careers . |
| 25 | For many years the Yugoslav system of allocation was to allow exporters to retain a certain proportion of their foreign exchange earnings and to surrender the remainder to the National Bank . |
| 26 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 27 | Most banks are requested by their central bank to keep a certain proportion of their assets in a liquid form . |
| 28 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 29 | Some people prefer to save a large proportion of their calories for a big evening meal , and others prefer to eat small meals more frequently . |
| 30 | At certain times , banks may decide that it is prudent to hold a bigger proportion of liquid assets . |