Example sentences of "[det] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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) |
| 2 | However , half of the chief executives polled were optimistic about their companies ' prospects , while only 35 per cent voiced concern . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For the bigram case more than half of the possible transitions are found with only 18% occurring just once . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Half of the armed forces parachutes stock was destroyed . |
| 17 | Around half of the new dads questioned said they would be happy to see their partner breastfeeding at home . |
| 18 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 19 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 20 | More than half of the comprehensive schools in existence by 1968 were of the orthodox 11–18 variety , and most arrangements were crystallizing around the approved versions of 10/65 . |
| 21 | Ford says it has provided more than half of the Motability-registered cars currently used under contract hire agreements . |
| 22 | Almost half of the reported cases seem to be associated with menstruation , but other associations include surgical incisions , burns , nasal packing , abscesses , a postinfluenza syndrome , and parturition . |
| 23 | Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit . |
| 24 | They want to stop our political levy and only half of the Tory funds is answerable for , from where they get it . |
| 25 | Guild of Bricklayers ’ judges visited over half of the original projects entered taking into account technical quality , cleanliness of the face , correct use of coloured bricks and particularly the quality of any special features , such as arches . |
| 26 | Similarly , small firm independence is eroded by the fact that over half of the raw materials to be processed are obtained from the buyer and nearly one-third of subcontractors use the buyers trademark . |
| 27 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 28 | PRC officials believe they can move at least half of the potential totals . |
| 29 | Jellie Dijkstra has published some telling information she discovered in Belgian archives : around one-third of all the fifteenth-century commissions and half of the sixteenth-century commissions request a copy of one kind or another . |
| 30 | that , that 's how long it takes for half of the radioactive isotopes to disappear . |