Example sentences of "[adv] the [det] proportions " in BNC.
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1 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
2 | If mail order is excluded , much the same proportions of people patronised the various types of shopping centre , and types of shop , for their most recent non-routine purchase , regardless of whether they were buying on credit or buying for cash . |
3 | And the sample should exhibit these characteristics and variations in much the same proportions as in the total population from which the sample has been drawn . |
4 | This sample must be " representative " ie exhibit characteristics and variations in attitude , behaviour , purchasing capability ( etc ) ( i ) relevant to the line of market research enquiry ; ( ii ) in much the same proportions as the total population from which the sample is drawn . |
5 | The working-scale model included part of a farm with a stream running through and including three clamp silos from which effluent poured in exactly the same proportions as from clamps containing grass treated in different ways . |
6 | Mary Poppins , manageress of the Cramlington Fund , sold an index future , and purchased the basket of shares in the index costing £60 000 in exactly the same proportions as used in computing the index . |
7 | The trust 's portfolio was 55 per cent invested in UK equities , with the other 45 per cent in overseas markets , practically the same proportions as last year . |
8 | Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions . |