Example sentences of "[det] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They concluded that because approximately half of the 5 gigatons of carbon released into the atmosphere each year by the consumption of fossil fuel remains in the atmosphere , the world temperature has already been affected . |
| 2 | The passage is concerned not only with objects of perception , but with the process of perceiving them ; the occurrence of first person pronouns ( over half of the personal pronouns are of this type ) is a symptom of this(37) |
| 3 | Thurmaston 's northerly neighbour , Syston , had 54 framework knitters , 5 framesmiths and 3 woolcombers recorded in the parish register between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , but these craftsmen formed less than half of the 128 entries . |
| 4 | However , half of the chief executives polled were optimistic about their companies ' prospects , while only 35 per cent voiced concern . |
| 5 | A secret report into the laboratory 's future concluded that the cheapest option was to close the laboratory , lay off half of the 200 scientists and move the rest to the government laboratories run by AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | Built with French technology , the Caju plant will process half of the 1,120 tons of rubbish collected daily in the Brazilian city into 600 tons of an organic compost known as fertilube . |
| 7 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 8 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |
| 9 | Half of the first rebleeds occurred within 12 months of initiation of sclerotherapy . |
| 10 | Nearly half of the first papers derived from Ph D research in the present study are jointly authored , and in nearly half of these cases , the thesis author is not the first author . |
| 11 | From the previous experiment , given a text in which half of the correct words are absent , it is still possible for the syntax analyser to select the correct word ( if present ) in more than 82% of the cases . |
| 12 | I practised on about half of the remaining tables while the two other dining-room stewards , the real regular service attendants ; Oliver and Cathy , set the rest . |
| 13 | Comparison of the C-terminal regions of DRP and the dystrophins ( Fig. 2 ) shows that this region is highly conserved with an 80 per cent exact match and about half of the remaining residues conserved . |
| 14 | The problem has become acute with the decision of the Welsh Synod that up to half of the Anglican churches in Wales may be closed . |
| 15 | For the bigram case more than half of the possible transitions are found with only 18% occurring just once . |
| 16 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 17 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
| 18 | The following results were obtained for 2,515 pupils in mixed schools : There were more boys in this sample ( 55 per cent ) than girls ( 45 per cent ) ; this imbalance was not present amongst low scoring pupils , half of the low scorers being boys and half girls . |
| 19 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 20 | One Sunday league official yesterday forecast that more than half of the 130 teams , where boys of between nine and 15 play every Sunday , could go out of existence . |
| 21 | The committee has also recommended an increase in the proportion of overseas students from 5.0% to 7.5% , which implies that barely half of the extra places will be available to local applicants . |
| 22 | Half of the 4,650 strikes in 1937 ( involving two million workers ) were over union recognition . |
| 23 | Thus , whereas more than half of the straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books were made within 10 minutes , in the case of early or rare books only 45% of straightforward deliveries from the Main Building took under 20 minutes , and nearly half ( 47% ) took more than 35 minutes . |
| 24 | Half of the 6,000 women questioned admitted to having intercourse before marriage and a quarter of them to adulterous intercourse after marriage . |
| 25 | However , our conservation laws tell us that we can achieve just half of the total permutations of corners and edges , just half of the total flips of edges and just one-third of the total twists of corners , so we can achieve just one-twelfth of the above numbers , yielding 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 possible patterns for the cube . |
| 26 | However , our conservation laws tell us that we can achieve just half of the total permutations of corners and edges , just half of the total flips of edges and just one-third of the total twists of corners , so we can achieve just one-twelfth of the above numbers , yielding 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 possible patterns for the cube . |
| 27 | One hundred and fifty nine states have signed UNCLOS , several significant western states have not , although , to date a little over half of the required ratifications have been deposited . |
| 28 | Half of the armed forces parachutes stock was destroyed . |
| 29 | Around half of the new dads questioned said they would be happy to see their partner breastfeeding at home . |
| 30 | More than half of the 2,000 nurses surveyed said changes to staffing levels where they worked had a detrimental impact on the quality of care . |