Example sentences of "[det] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 2 | Britain is a major market for US plywood — about a million cubic metres of the stuff comes across the Atlantic every year , nearly half of all the plywood we import . |
| 3 | The candidate who gets more than half of all the first preferences , is the winner . |
| 4 | Roughly half of all the CO 2 produced dissolves in the oceans , where some is photosynthesized by plants , is taken up by trees or is taken up within limestone ( calcium carbonate ) . |
| 5 | The London Boroughs had last been contested in 1986 when Labour won exactly half of all the seats and a small plurality in votes cast — see Table 1 . |
| 6 | Half of all the records since 1947 have been for the period mid-February to mid-April , particularly March , with 30 per cent. , which suggests that there is a fairly regular , although small , spring movement through the county . |
| 7 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Consumer Credit Association ( representing predominantly weekly collection small credit traders and moneylenders ) told us that their members may turn down about half of all the applications they get . |
| 9 | Like the bricks in such a house , the protein molecules of the body are replaced ( ‘ turned over ’ ) so that , on average , half of all the protein molecules are changed every two weeks . |
| 10 | Half of all the meat eaten in the world is pig . |
| 11 | At the beginning of 1990/91 , under the leadership of Brian Eyre , the businesses came into being with nearly half of all the personnel transferring to business units . |
| 12 | I have also seen the important comments of the CBI , which set out the fact that Britain now attracts nearly half of all the inward investment from Japan that comes to the European Community . |
| 13 | Half of all the failures are because patients are dissatisfied with the functional results of this operation . |
| 14 | They will be able to keep half of all the treasure they find ( unrealistically generous , certainly ) but it will all have to be declared . |
| 15 | In a report on biodiversity , entitled Bringing Rio Home : Biodiversity in our Food and Farming , SAFE shows that in 1992 three varieties accounted for more than half of all the seed sown of winter wheat , spring wheat , barley , oats , rye , sugar beet and rapeseed ; the highest proportions were for spring wheat ( 86 per cent ) and oats ( 77 per cent ) . |
| 16 | Up to half of all the meadows in the east and south of the Netherlands have been seriously damaged by flocks of crows probing about among the grass roots for grubs of a dung-dwelling beetle which have appeared in much greater concentrations than normal . |
| 17 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham county council group traffic manager for road safety , told Darlington Cycling Forum on Monday that serious accidents in the town accounted for almost half of all the cycle injuries in the county last year . |
| 18 | Half of all the way round so how many would that be ? |
| 19 | The mower alters its fatal course not one half of half a degree . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of those the ministry is proposing are questionable , while schemes to help maintain the typical English farm and protect rare crop varieties such as traditional orchards have been ignored . ’ |
| 21 | There 's a you know they used to put I suppose vanilla essence or some of these no almond would it be ? |
| 22 | I want now just to summarise and er some of these the features I 'm going to point out I 've I 've already stated so you may may just want to sit back and just take this in . |
| 23 | In some of these the emphasis is upon environmental change in the Quaternary whereas in others they have accommodated investigations of contemporary environmental processes as well . |
| 24 | In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason . |
| 25 | In some of these the child is an active participant , is making drama of a kind , in others s/he is responding to what others have made . |
| 26 | Mr Reeves thinks little of such an idea and would rather see conventional pools built . |
| 27 | ‘ You see dears , ’ said the old lady , ‘ no one , least of all a great detective , believes what they read in the newspapers . ’ |
| 28 | Kelly knew Bill well enough to be certain that no one , least of all a new owner , would dictate to him which jockey to put up . |
| 29 | Nobody , least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch , still more record , domestic television output ! |
| 30 | It is , however , difficult indeed to understand the two Bucks players adopting questionable tactics , least of all a childish device to enlarge the wicket . |