Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 2 | Indeed , figures have been put forward in the US that suggest that maybe 40% of all documents currently typeset could be output in this way . |
| 3 | Market estimates suggest that about 30% of the turnover of German government bonds ( bunds ) , 50% of the turnover in international deutschmark straight issues , and 80%-90% of the turnover of deutschmark FRNs occur in London . |
| 4 | Yates and Davies ( 1987 ) report that only 45% of former Access students who had entered higher education courses in science , technology and engineering were progressing satisfactorily , while Osborne and Woodrow ( 1989 ) in their study of mathematics , science and technology Access courses report success rates of between 56% and 78% for students who had entered higher education . |
| 5 | This is particularly important when you realise that only 30% of West Belfast residents who are currently working actually work in West Belfast . |
| 6 | The Family Expenditure Survey 1989 found that over 36% of single pensioner households do not have central heating . |
| 7 | A survey conducted in 1988 by the Treasury and the Stock Exchange found that about 21% of the population owned shares . |
| 8 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |
| 9 | A survey carried out in 1978–9 , during the harvest season between October and March , found that almost 30% of all Salvadorean households were engaged in harvest work . |
| 10 | Another opinion poll , published in the magazine Cambio 16 , found that only 8% of those questioned were prepared to die for their country . |
| 11 | A review of the training content of junior doctors ' work is long overdue : a recent survey found that only 3% of juniors ' working time was spent on training . |
| 12 | He and colleagues reviewed 70 referral letters from general practitioners and , not surprisingly , found that only 27% of the general practitioners had made the correct diagnosis . |
| 13 | Chung found that only 7% of the mispricing signals indicated an underpricing of the future , and he interpreted this as evidence against the presence of a tax timing option ( see Section 5.3.4 ) , which would lead to an increase in the number of underpricings . |
| 14 | A recent Department of Employment survey found that only 13% of part-timers did such jobs because they could not find full-time work . |
| 15 | At that time it was considered that over 60% of cars in the United Kingdom had at least one defective tyre . |
| 16 | Today , following years of civil war , it remains a shadow of its former self , with its buildings devastated and only 10% of the farm 's 1000 acres under cultivation . |
| 17 | At first sight , the reader might doubt whether even people without brain injury usually possess significant lip-reading skills . |
| 18 | From the results reported in Table II and the correlation in Figure 2 , it can be calculated that about 50% of the observed change in fluid transport was mediated via the ENS , when net fluid absorption had stopped . |
| 19 | The Liberal Democrats will be depressed to see that only 40pc of Alliance voters in 1987 are now ready to vote for Peter Bergg . |
| 20 | A recent opinion poll revealed that only 5% of those questioned thought the existing parties represented their interests . |
| 21 | In the same month he told a Nuffield conference that his proposals should ensure that only 6% of the workforce were unemployed . |
| 22 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 23 | The Halifax says that about 20% of the money deposited in Tessas was new money — the remaining 80% was transferred from other accounts already held with the society . |
| 24 | Mr Kido says that almost 70% of the company 's customers in the Tokyo area are under the age of 29 . |
| 25 | Despite the limitations of a retrospective study and the heterogeneity of the tissue available for review , the present findings show that over 80% of antral tumours were associated with H pylori in the 1960s although this fell to about 40% in the 1980s . |
| 26 | Unofficial figures show that over 65% of courts built in 1991 are of the macadam variety , 10% are artificial grass and 6% are acrylic . |
| 27 | Low-magnification micrographs show that about 20% of the nanotubes are 50% of the nanoparticles are filled . |
| 28 | Data in Table 1 ( of ref. 1 ) reveal that about 27% of and & name 's average Y6N17 groundmass is albite . |
| 29 | The day previously a town centre poll had revealed that only 50pc of Darlingtonians could name the town 's distinctly high profile MP . |
| 30 | On the final day of the trial the police noted that around £385,000-worth of stolen material had now been recovered , with James 's cooperation . |