Example sentences of "that a high proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 2 | In 1833 , of 5,020 antislavery petitions the Wesleyans provided 1,953 and other nonconformist bodies 873 , though Drescher points out that a higher proportion of signatures came on community petitions . |
| 3 | This is likely to be related to the fact that a higher proportion of these cases are contested . |
| 4 | An analysis of Minor Project proposals confirms that documentation is in general short — no more than two or three sides of A4 and the scope of current library awareness and the use reflected in them reveals that a higher proportion of Minor than of Major award schools claim to have already established library skills programmes . |
| 5 | On the one hand the party lost ‘ middle class ’ support , so that a higher proportion of its votes came from the working class ( i.e. manual workers ) than ever before . |
| 6 | Pessimists may say that this will lead to more elderly people being burdened with the costs of deteriorating houses ; optimists , that a higher proportion of future cohorts of the elderly will be accustomed to capitalizing on their assets . |
| 7 | This means that a higher proportion of children will be brought up in the local authority sector than figures for the distribution of tenure in their parents ' age-band would suggest . |
| 8 | Their concentration in the inner city areas where educational provision is generally inferior , as well as the fact that a higher proportion than the British-born is to be found in unskilled and semi-skilled occupations , inevitably mean that their children do less well at schools at all levels . |
| 9 | Townsend 's data shows that a higher proportion of the non-manual groups — 19 per cent — received paid holidays of five weeks or more compared to a very negligible proportion of the manual groups — 1 per cent . |
| 10 | Though the table does not differentiate according to social class , it is evident that a higher proportion of unemployed manual than non-manual workers are among those receiving unemployment benefit . |
| 11 | Anderson ( 1981 ) also found that a higher proportion of redundant women were not entitled to any payments compared with men . |
| 12 | For example , in his national survey of household resources and standards of living , Townsend found that a higher proportion of older lone women than lone men had less than £100 worth of assets and fewer than six consumer durables . |
| 13 | In analysing tax schedules , the Messere study found that a higher proportion of taxpayers ( over 95% ) paid the basic rate in the UK than elsewhere , and that both the initial and top rates of tax on earned income were higher in the UK than elsewhere . |
| 14 | He may recall that in Germany more than 3 million people are unemployed and he may bear it in mind that a higher proportion of people are in work in this country than in Germany or in any other European country except Denmark . |
| 15 | The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products . |
| 16 | It may be that the effect of diagnosis is real and that duodenal ulcer is more persistent than gastric ulcer , or it may be that a higher proportion of gastric ulcer patients have been operated upon in the time between the two periods of registrations of drug use . |
| 17 | A recent survey conducted by ICSA of its members in management roles , showed that a high proportion served at or near board level . |
| 18 | The authority launched its campaign after a study at St Thomas 's Hospital , London , indicated that a high proportion of pregnant black women carried HIV infection . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of A level candidates came and come from such schools . |
| 20 | This inevitably led to a sense of frustration both in pupils and their teachers ; for it seemed that however well taught they were , however much they learned , it was inevitable that a high proportion of candidates would get low or unclassified grades . |
| 21 | Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs . |
| 22 | It is something that many people would not like to see , but there is no question that a high proportion of animals which are shot will carry lead shot for a while , will die after a long period — in many cases days or weeks — and there is a substantial amount of suffering when this happens . |
| 23 | ( Italian Railways found that a high proportion of passengers became travel sick on the train . ) |
| 24 | It is very likely that a high proportion of the clergy in the tenth and eleventh centuries were hereditary clergymen . |
| 25 | With only the staff at Bloomsbury House and their regional offices as the long stop for advice and modest practical assistance , it is not surprising that a high proportion of Kindertransporte veterans , possibly as many as one in ten , found themselves up against the police or other bastions of social authority . |
| 26 | In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining . |
| 27 | While it is impossible to either prove or disprove this estimate , as a matter of observation it is true that a high proportion of churches seem to attract ‘ their kind of people ’ . |
| 28 | It has been found there that a high proportion of buyers actually live within 50 miles of the timeshare development and use it to relax completely for one week per year . |
| 29 | Although most foods contain potassium , especially potatoes and green vegetables , it has been shown that a high proportion of elderly people select a diet low in potassium ( Davies , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Greater involvement of practising teachers in the professional preparation of new recruits , the stipulation that a high proportion of teacher trainers directly involved with pedagogy should themselves have recent and successful experience of teaching and should create opportunities to renew this experience , and the setting of minimum periods for teacher-training courses and the practical elements within them — all these things are seen as ways of providing new teachers with greater and more effective assistance in the development of the necessary practical classroom skills . |