Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key element of this enterprise and education initiative was the specific target that , ‘ Each year 10% of teachers should have the opportunity to gain personal experience in the world of business ’ . |
| 2 | Offspring of hybrids would seem less alien in appearance . |
| 3 | In this predominantly part-time area only 47% of wives would have tackled an emergency themselves yet 74% indicated a desire to be able to do more on the farm . |
| 4 | A poll suggested 46% of Londoners would leave if they could . |
| 5 | Therefore it might be expected that up to 20% of winters will produce Arctic ozone holes for doubled CO 2 conditions . |
| 6 | It was calculated by the Department of the Environment that in England , some 58% of properties would experience an increase in rates , 37% a decrease in rates and a further 5% little or no change . |
| 7 | on short regional routes , 90 percent of trains should arrive within five minutes . |
| 8 | A home is the single largest capital investment to make in our entire life , and yet only some ten to fifteen percent of purchasers will commission a detailed report . |
| 9 | Development of lymphoma in 15% of patients may indicate excessive immunosuppression . |
| 10 | This avoids mass screening and means that fewer than 5% of women will receive intrapartum chemoprophylaxis . |
| 11 | ‘ This may seem obvious , but MMB statistics show that at least 50pc of producers could have profitably produced more milk , ’ he told producers . |
| 12 | The day previously a town centre poll had revealed that only 50pc of Darlingtonians could name the town 's distinctly high profile MP . |
| 13 | There is evidence that some species of trichonemes may become resistant to benzimidazole compounds and to avoid this it is suggested that these should be alternated with chemically unrelated anthelmintics on an annual or a six-monthly basis . |
| 14 | Their lungs are not particularly large , despite the fact that a dolphin can hold its breath for five minutes or more , and some species of whales can submerge for up to an hour and survive on a single breath . |
| 15 | Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis . |
| 16 | Automatically adjusting to changing light conditions they are stylish and , above all , quickly become part of your face which is what a good pair of glasses should do . |
| 17 | The sensitive detonator needed to be crimped onto the end of the safety fuze , and a tool was available for this purpose — a pair of pliers would serve well enough . |
| 18 | While we were outside , the duty Corporal was doing the rounds of the barrack rooms , checking for cleanliness and tidiness ; every two or three minutes a pair of boots would sail out of the window , or there would be the sound of a locker crashing to the floor . |
| 19 | The second defining characteristic of compatibility guarantees a genuine relationship of sense : it is that a pair of compatibles must have a common superordinate . |
| 20 | I have found that a pair of Neons can yield around two hundred eggs in a spawning , but the number of fry raised can vary from twenty five to over a hundred . |
| 21 | It turns out that Heisenberg is universally limiting and requires that the uncertainties of any such pair of quantities should satisfy unc in obvious generalisation of [ 2 ] . |
| 22 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 23 | A pair of gloves can stop you having your fingers chopped off . |
| 24 | Ask a practitioner more about it — sounds like something anyone who pulls on a pair of trainers should know about ! |
| 25 | It 's very important to get this strip perfectly straight , either by accurate measurement against the stairs or by using a string line and making small pencil marks every half-metre to align the bottom edge — again , that second pair of hands can come in very useful . |
| 26 | The presentation of a pair of binoculars will help in pursuit of his hobby of aeroplane spotting at numerous airfields in the locality . |
| 27 | Replacement of curling stones is long-delayed as a pair of stones can last up to 25 years . |
| 28 | Simply stated , this asserted that the actual exchange rate between any pair of currencies would fluctuate to offset differences in inflation between the two countries in question . |
| 29 | A series of surveys has shown that , given a choice , up to 80pc of fans would prefer to stand . |
| 30 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |