Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Slice the onion into rings and lay half of the rings along the fish . |
| 32 | Women outnumber men in the teaching profession , making up over three-quarters of the teachers in primary schools , and just under half of the teachers in secondary schools . |
| 33 | Less than half of the teachers in secondary schools in Solihull are in any degree familiar with their authority 's booklet for SSE and only one-tenth claim to know it well . |
| 34 | The 14 group practices and five singlehanded practices identified by the sampling technique represented 66 or 16% of the 403 general practitioners responsible to Berkshire family health services authority , and the sample consisted of half of the claims for night visits from these doctors , a total of 1988 visits . |
| 35 | Yes except you did n't , except parliament did n't see half of the effects of it Thatcher |
| 36 | When papers are destroyed deliberately , however , as they are in half of the cases of those claiming asylum at the ports , apparently to conceal the identification of the claimants and where they come from , that must adversely affect their credibility — unless they have a convincing explanation . |
| 37 | When the flora of fleshy-fruited species in a forest as a whole is examined , as at Cocha Cashu in Amazonian Peru , the fruits of the majority of the species ( in this case , two-thirds of 258 species , representing a quarter of the total flora and half of the genera with fleshy fruits ) seem to fit into one of two categories . |
| 38 | At least half of the shares in BT3 will be offered to the public as part of the Government 's continuing campaign to develop the share-owning habit . |
| 39 | Half of the subjects in each training condition had received presentations of the light during the pre-exposure phase . |
| 40 | For example , in the election of February 1974 , the Liberals with over half of the votes of the Conservative and Labour Parties only secured 14 seats instead of the 122 to which they were proportionately " entitled " , and in the 1983 election the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured 26 per cent of the vote but only 23 seats whereas the Labour Party with only 2.2 per cent more of the vote won 209 seats . |
| 41 | The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts . |
| 42 | Furthermore half of the patients with some features of Crohn 's disease have been labelled as indeterminate colitis because the pathological features were not entirely diagnostic . |
| 43 | Seventy-five per cent of the receipts from council-house sales , and half of the receipts from other sales , must be set aside as provision to meet credit liabilities ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : Clause 59 ) , and only the remainder is available for further capital expenditure . |
| 44 | in over half of the households with severely incapacitated mothers , it was the breakdown in personal interaction and reciprocity which the daughters found most distressing , burdensome and hard to take . |
| 45 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 46 | The Mason reached over and snatched the purse , emptying about half of the contents into his own hand . |
| 47 | For more than half of the years between 1689 and Waterloo in 1815 Britain was at war , mostly with the French . |
| 48 | In more than half of the years between 1713 and 1785 debt service took up more than 40 per cent of total revenue . |
| 49 | Thanks to astute advice from his business manager , apart from $4500 a week and ten per cent of the gross box-office receipts , Dustin also received half of the profits from every souvenir programme sold . |
| 50 | A condition heavily testing the social fabric in this area is the impact of AIDS ; more than half of the children between 0–13 years have lost both their parents and are in need of assistance . |
| 51 | A honey-bee colony , which may eventually contain up to eighty thousand individuals , is founded when a young queen hatches in an existing colony and emigrates , taking half of the workers with her . |
| 52 | Just under half of the places on trust boards have gone to women — a development which was welcomed yesterday by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 53 | Newton and Robinson ( 1982 ) found half of the sixteen-year-olds in four inner London ESN(M) schools to be maladjusted , as rated by the Bristol Social Adjustment Scales , while in South Wales , Chazan ( 1964 ) reported a similar proportion : 50 per cent of the boys , 32 per cent of the girls . |
| 54 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 55 | Yet , in a somewhat art-y place like Freud 's which recently displayed the photographic work of Jane Ralley , the solitary wild-eyed scribbler was not too out of place ; but then , judging by the subject of half of the photographs in the show , the owner could count on this crowd to retain its sophisticated bonhomie in the face of far more deliberate provocation . |
| 56 | The Governor suspected that John 's banking affairs would be in a similar mess and a check showed that under his Chairmanship and by his influence , more than half of the assets of the Bank of New South Wales had been loaned to a small group of businessmen . |
| 57 | British equities account for more than half of the assets of British funds ; foreign equities are a further 20% . |
| 58 | About half of the pupils in maintained schools take school meals , with the rest bringing their own food or making other arrangements ( mostly going home for lunch ) . |
| 59 | Whitley found that ‘ one-half of the directors of the largest industrial companies were former public schoolboys with one-sixth coming from Eton alone ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 173 ) . |
| 60 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |