Example sentences of "[det] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course one can not say this of the whole story ; were one to say that one would no longer be a Christian . |
| 2 | The debt owed by these nations totals $630 billion — about half of the developing world 's total debt . |
| 3 | The passage is concerned not only with objects of perception , but with the process of perceiving them ; the occurrence of first person pronouns ( over half of the personal pronouns are of this type ) is a symptom of this(37) |
| 4 | The phase is excited for half of the total cycle and therefore the d.c. component is half of the unipolar supply voltage ( V = V /2 ) and the fundamental component is v = 2 V/n . |
| 5 | It is known that , in vivo , half of the superhelical density is restrained by DNA-binding proteins , so that the free superhelical density has a value close to -0.025 ( 29 , 30 ) . |
| 6 | This was the situation for more than half of the official primary season ! |
| 7 | However , half of the chief executives polled were optimistic about their companies ' prospects , while only 35 per cent voiced concern . |
| 8 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 9 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 10 | Ideological differences did not prevent the Community from taking more than half of the Eastern bloc 's exports to the non-communist world , whilst the Eastern bloc absorbed high-technology goods from Western Europe . |
| 11 | Union membership fell rapidly to around half of the immediate postwar level . |
| 12 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |
| 13 | Yet over half of the disabled people being cared for in Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) study had apparently failed to claim the attendance allowance when they first became eligible , thereby potentially affecting their carers ' benefit entitlement as well : |
| 14 | If so , where was the general coverage of the recent study showing poor pregnancy outcome among women receiving routine Doppler ultrasound scans ? — or of the large scale trial in the United States showing that half of the coronary angiography being undertaken is unnecessary or postponable ? |
| 15 | After 0.7 ( 0.09 ) h ( mean ( SEM ) ) , half of the liquid phase ( T50 ) had emptied from the stomach . |
| 16 | In contrast to the UK , where value for money reviews are perceived as an enhancement to the role of existing auditors , half of the professional staff of the GAO are nonaccountants . |
| 17 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 18 | From the previous experiment , given a text in which half of the correct words are absent , it is still possible for the syntax analyser to select the correct word ( if present ) in more than 82% of the cases . |
| 19 | I practised on about half of the remaining tables while the two other dining-room stewards , the real regular service attendants ; Oliver and Cathy , set the rest . |
| 20 | Colour half of the remaining royal icing dark green , place in a paper piping bag and snip the end to a V-shape . |
| 21 | Take a new but washed tea towel or piece of muslin large enough to hold the cake and moisten with half of the remaining bourbon . |
| 22 | Comparison of the C-terminal regions of DRP and the dystrophins ( Fig. 2 ) shows that this region is highly conserved with an 80 per cent exact match and about half of the remaining residues conserved . |
| 23 | Roll just over half of the remaining marzipan to fit the top of the cake . |
| 24 | When the Labour party was in power , half of the remaining half — the other 25 per cent . |
| 25 | Asian children performed just as well as other children in the six local education authorities but their admission rate to university was almost half of the corresponding figure for school leavers in all the state schools in England . |
| 26 | Almost half of the poor people actually live in some of the richer areas of Britain . |
| 27 | The problem has become acute with the decision of the Welsh Synod that up to half of the Anglican churches in Wales may be closed . |
| 28 | Tests have shown that about half of the traditional folk remedies of such areas have pharmaceutical potential . |
| 29 | For the bigram case more than half of the possible transitions are found with only 18% occurring just once . |
| 30 | Only half of the young people actually exercised their right to vote . |