Example sentences of "proportion of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a consideration which applies to other factors of production : there is far less concern about the proportion of a country 's capital stock which is lying idle than there is about the proportion of the labour force which is unemployed . |
| 2 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 3 | T-tests are a fairly simple way of testing for significance in the difference between the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country A and the mean or proportion of a sample drawn from country B. |
| 4 | As Hay and Morris point out , ‘ with regard to managerial objectives , it [ may be ] less important what proportion of a company 's shares is owned by the management , but much more vital what proportion of the managers ’ remuneration depends on stocks and shares ’ . |
| 5 | Certainly the raw readings are low , and it must be said here that the last significant figure was obtained by estimating a proportion of a division on the scale . |
| 6 | Five indicators were utilised to identify the vulnerable sectors — the level of non-tariff barriers ; the spread of real productivity and pre-tax prices across the Community ; the proportion of member states ' demand met by Community imports ; and the proportion of a sector 's turnover accounted for by small businesses . |
| 7 | California , however , takes as its tax base a slice of the multinational 's worldwide profits , using the proportion of a firm 's global workforce , property and sales within its own borders to determine the size of that slice . |
| 8 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 9 | So , the cluster is based upon a proportion of a population , or a strata of it , whose " vital statistics " ( in demographic terms ) are already known . |
| 10 | The prevalence of a state is defined as the proportion of a population so categorized at a given point of time regardless of when those affected entered the state . |
| 11 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 12 | One concerns the proportion of a manager 's income that is derived from holding shares in the company in comparison with the proportion that depends on being an employee . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The price of a car in East Germany can be a significant proportion of a lifetime 's earnings , and the wait for the car can last a significant part of that lifetime . |
| 15 | Lord Cross accepted that the " significant proportion " test was the standard which the justices were required to apply , but stressed that " a significant proportion of a class means a part which is not numerically negligible but which may be much less than half . " |
| 16 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 17 | The miller would then deduct a proportion of the grain in payment for his services . |
| 18 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 19 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 20 | Net investment in year t is then a constant proportion of the change in output during that year . |
| 21 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |
| 22 | Also , there is scope to charge a proportion of the management expenses to capital . |
| 23 | We believe that it would be more sensible if a proportion of the compensation would be met by people like pension fund managers if for no other reason that it would encourage them to er keep their own house in order erm and you know it 's not a bad er principle to operate in these areas . |
| 24 | Although a very great proportion of the revival in kite flying is attributed to the growth in popularity of the ‘ Stunt ’ kite , one should not run away with the idea that controlled flight is a new discovery . |
| 25 | Other features are more clearly revealed if the data are plotted as a cumulative frequency distribution indicating the proportion of the surface above any given height ( Fig. 2.3 ) . |
| 26 | Next , focus carefully on the syllabus for each class , noting key sub-divisions and the proportion of the session devoted to each . |
| 27 | The goldsmiths noticed that a large proportion of the gold was not withdrawn from the vaults and as a result they seized the opportunity of making profits by granting loans through the issue of ‘ receipts ’ in excess of actual gold deposits . |
| 28 | Half the country 's state enterprises were to be privatized by end-1993 , a large proportion of the remainder was to be converted into wholly state-owned joint stock companies , competition was to be promoted , agriculture modernized , a sound banking system created , and a modern tax and budgetary system implemented . |
| 29 | It is usually a facultative characteristic and affects only a proportion of the worm population . |
| 30 | Today , local community chargepayers bear only a small proportion of the cost of local councils . |