Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 2 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 3 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 4 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 5 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 6 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 7 | Both showed Mr. Mates well ahead of his main challenger with Labour in a clear third but they also showed that over a quarter of the electorate were undecided . |
| 8 | At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories . |
| 9 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 10 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 11 | He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed . |
| 12 | He said that only a couple of other booksellers in the country had been brave enough to ignore the letters . |
| 13 | Labour 's spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , said that only a programme of assistance to Vietnam would improve the lives of the people there and encourage those who have already left to return . |
| 14 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |