Example sentences of "[det] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 2 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 3 | HCS member Ali Haroun said in Brussels on Feb. 26 that half of a total of 50 people killed had been members of the army and gendamerie . |
| 4 | And then you get half of a bottle of wine as well or something . |
| 5 | Look at LD-50 — that 's a mandatory test to establish the concentration of a product which will kill at least half of a test group of animals . |
| 6 | He gave me one half of a clasp that belonged to the Lion of Venice . |
| 7 | The Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change management services to the software , and is claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client-server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system manager 's time , according to the company . |
| 8 | Tivoli Management Environment Release 1.6 adds configuration and change services to the software , claimed to simplify and automate the process of setting up , maintaining and changing large-scale client/server networks , a task that often takes up over half of a system managers time , according to Tivoli . |
| 9 | Flint arrow heads and many waste flakes have been found and there was half of a stone mace head of the period 1500–2000 BC . |
| 10 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 11 | No , half of a quaver . |
| 12 | Yeah when we 've had a look at fractions a bit erm we 'll play with those and we 'll find out things like what 's half of a quarter things like that . |
| 13 | So what does that 's when you start thinking about half of a quarter it gets very confusing what do you mean do you mean half or a quarter ? |
| 14 | Half of a quarter . |
| 15 | they 'd come out with half of one , they 'd come out with things like I think you 're er I du n no er , not barking up the wrong tree that was the wrong one , but the they 'd sort of come out with half of a pun and they would n't finish it off , like oh th , this is smashing ! |
| 16 | Mr Gates reckons his firm 's $100m investment in NT ( for new technology ) will win it half of a market now dominated by Novell . |
| 17 | Room service had sent fruit for breakfast and Ellwood had skinned one half of a peach . |
| 18 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 19 | They proposed to sell half of a property in Kent for around $55M , to which the banks would agree subject to cross-collaterisation . |
| 20 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ I sometimes play half of a match good and half of a match bad , or not so good , and I have a feeling it gives opponents the chance to come back , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Problems of sexual intercourse are as interactive at an unconscious level as some of a couple 's intercourse out of bed . |
| 23 | It is possible that some of a company 's shareholders will have interests , for example , as employees or customers , that are distinct from their investment interest in the business . |
| 24 | IN this chapter we are concerned with a group of torts the function of which is to protect some of a person 's intangible interests — those which may loosely be called his business interests — from unlawful interference . |
| 25 | He was born in Hambleden , some of a farm labourer . |
| 26 | Some of a horse 's physical needs can also dramatically influence its temperament ; this is especially true with feed . |
| 27 | Mention was made by some of a belief that Blacks get custodial sentences more often . |
| 28 | It is not known whether addictive disease is one disease that has different drugs or behaviours of choice according to each individual sufferer or group of sufferers or whether these groups correspond to one or another of a range of addictive diseases . |
| 29 | This occurs , following the Formalist principle of defamiliarization , when existing linguistic or literary practice ( a ‘ norm ’ ) is violated at one level or another of a text 's structure , which then itself becomes dominant . |
| 30 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |