Example sentences of "[det] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the largest TNCs have assets and annual sales far in excess of the GNP of about half of the countries of the world . |
| 2 | About half of the infants in each group were not clinically dehydrated on presentation to hospital ( 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 99 ( 53% ) in group B ) , 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 75 ( 40% ) in group B were mildly dehydrated ( by up to 5% ) , 10 ( 5% ) in group A and 11 ( 6% ) in group B were moderately dehydrated ( 5–10% ) , and only one child in group A and two in group B were dehydrated by 10% or more . |
| 3 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 4 | Lee Winters , manageress of the Corbrige Fund , is considering engaging in index arbitrage , but has discovered that she will initially receive only half of the proceeds from short selling shares , that is , f = 0.5 . |
| 5 | Over half of the youngsters in residential care in Flanders ( 56 per cent ) are aged between 13 and 18 years . |
| 6 | Redbridge and Waltham Forest had accepted that there would be no major increase in revenue to fund the development of new services before closure and would plan on the basis that half of the sites of two hospitals could be sold to finance the new services . |
| 7 | The fact that half of the members of the Bundestag are selected from party lists , rather than being elected , only reinforces the power of the parties , weakens accountability and is open to the usual favouritist pressures . |
| 8 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 9 | One spin-off is that many feminist psychologists still identify themselves as lesbians ; half of the members of the Association of Women in Psychology , for example , are lesbians ( Basow 1986 ) . |
| 10 | It is a stance which dismisses the needs of over half of the members of the community and sanctions major crimes such as rape , assault , actual or grievous bodily harm and murder . |
| 11 | The system involved workers electing half of the members of supervisory boards , with the shareholders electing the rest and appointing a ‘ neutral ’ chair . |
| 12 | More than half of the commands in D-11 were the same as those in RPL-11 . |
| 13 | About half of the instances in other jurists seem to be the work of the compilers . |
| 14 | Sidacai had already devoured half of the pastries on the plate . |
| 15 | Half of the women of the court were here — which fact , Alexei thought , should not have surprised him . |
| 16 | Those at the bottom rarely moved up , and nearly half of the sons of the upper-middle class stayed there . |
| 17 | As a result , the A and B lists provide just over half of the records on daytime Radio 1 . |
| 18 | oh in it sad eh ? , reading in the paper the other day about that thing the , the list of top ten names , I mean half of the ones on there are pathetic |
| 19 | Even though the actions in the present experiment were specifically designed to eliminate any overt suggestion of role differentiation , singulars still accounted for nearly half of the continuations under the best condition for plurals ( same description type , use of and ) . |
| 20 | Half of the evacuees in Little Weirwold and the surrounding area had already left . |
| 21 | Only a few per cent of the thyroid tumours would be fatal , whereas perhaps half of the cancers from caesium-137 would be fatal . |
| 22 | Slice the onion into rings and lay half of the rings along the fish . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yes except you did n't , except parliament did n't see half of the effects of it Thatcher |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Half of the subjects in each training condition had received presentations of the light during the pre-exposure phase . |