Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Southampton General Hospital , where 90 out of 360 nurses are off sick , management appealed for volunteer nurses . |
| 2 | It 's driving me positively ga-ga , ’ said Peter Abitante of the AFC , where 11 out of 14 teams still harbour play-off hopes , including all four teams in the AFC Central Division . |
| 3 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |
| 4 | More than eight out of 10 consumers , out of a sample of about 1,500 , said their consumption of meat and fish was unaffected by health considerations and 60% did not care about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about salt , sugar or caffeine . |
| 5 | And more than eight out of 10 people on a day out include bread — the most portable of foods — in their picnic feast , either brought from home or purchased en-route . |
| 6 | The Central Electoral Board stated that more than 1,300,000 out of 3,275,000 eligible voters had abstained , the highest abstention figure in the 37 elections held since the proclamation of independence in 1844 . |
| 7 | A London clinic specialising in reversal operations said yesterday that more than six out of 10 operations are now successful compared with fewer than two out of 10 only three or four years ago . |
| 8 | They found that more than six out of 10 children with emotional and behavioural problems were regular smokers . |
| 9 | Dr Charlton also reported that 86% of the colleges and 19% of the schools allowed students over the age of 16 to smoke , and more than six out of ten local education authorities had no formal policy on smoking issues . |
| 10 | In Strabane , Co Londonderry , more than six out of ten people have been out of work for at least the last year . |
| 11 | It was claimed in 1803 that no less than 90 out of 165 canal acts obtained since 1758 had been concerned primarily with coal carriage , while a further 47 had been linked to iron or non-ferrous metal works or mines . |
| 12 | In all , more than three out of five older women were living in or on the margins of poverty . |
| 13 | ‘ The thing about McGahern is that although 6 out of 8 Irish critics were against it most of the foreign reviewers , including The Observer and Guardian and New York Times , gave it glowing reviews . |
| 14 | The West 's manifest unwillingness to use force against the Bosnian Serbs to get them to accept this plan has contributed to the latest rejection that the plan has suffered , the resounding No delivered by more than nine out of ten Bosnian Serb voters in last weekend 's referendum . |
| 15 | Straightforward deliveries direct to readers took comparatively little time for ‘ ordinary ’ books housed in the Main Building : more than half ( 52% ) were delivered within ten minutes , and more than nine out of ten ( 92% ) had been delivered within twenty minutes . |
| 16 | Overall , more than nine out of ten ( 93% ) of the very recent ( post-1976 ) publications issued to readers had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , the remainder having been acquired by purchase ( 6% ) or donation ( 2% ) . |
| 17 | The difference is particularly marked for cars and telephones ; more than 8 out of 10 two adult households with children have a car or a van compared to only 3 in 10 on adult households with children and whereas 9 in 10 of the two adult households with children have a telephone , this is true for only 6 in 10 of the one adult and children households |
| 18 | Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten . |
| 19 | Probably the most important factor affecting family formation is that people are choosing to have fewer children , although 9 out of 10 first marriages do have children . |
| 20 | Totals for the past six months , which is since the TV campaign started , are more than 15,000 up on last year . |
| 21 | MORE THAN four out of five people who apply for planning permission get it . |
| 22 | MORE than four out of five Britons feel they are financially worse off than they were a year ago . |
| 23 | He should also be in no doubt of the effectiveness of that policy bearing in mind the fact that the Chief Constable said recently that more than four out of five terrorist incidents are thwarted and never take place . |
| 24 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 25 | A London clinic specialising in reversal operations said yesterday that more than six out of 10 operations are now successful compared with fewer than two out of 10 only three or four years ago . |
| 26 | Less than two out of five applicants actually gained entry . |
| 27 | Additionally , a presumptive positive result was recorded for any sample if three out of four of the sections examined were positive for the IS 6110 polymerase chain reaction . |
| 28 | Each node also has one pointer which if used , points to a variable length array of pointers to nodes ( each node is 32 bits + 1 pointer ) , so from the above example , there would be 10 elements in the array because 10 out of 26 bits are set . |
| 29 | I say encourage because three out of four dissatisfied customers simply go away disgruntled — having concluded that it is not worth complaining . |
| 30 | In court the prosecution said the accident happened because two out of four locking pins were n't properly secured . |