Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very high proportion of prisoners come from a background of grossly limited educational and economic opportunity . |
| 2 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 3 | Well executed joiner work and solid timber nicely matched with face veneers of bulkheads make for a very pleasant ambience in the saloon . |
| 4 | I mean , a lot of guitarists get into a rut and I think it comes from the fact that their pool of influences is really limited and shallow . |
| 5 | Across the stream , tumbling fast on its way to Glyme and Evenlode , one sees a wide sedgy hollow planted with willow saplings , from which flocks of goldfinches rise with a flash of wings on sunny mornings . |
| 6 | The following , for instance , is just one among thousands : ‘ cooperate most of the time , but on a random 10 per cent of rounds throw in a defect ’ . |
| 7 | Why , for instance , did the Oval board of directors emerge from a meeting last month to declare that Jackson 's job was safe and that he would be in charge next season ? |
| 8 | The genes of viruses code for a protein coat , which helps them to survive the death of one cell and to infect another . |
| 9 | RUFs can take two forms : either a single bank acts as a placing agent and arranges for a group of banks to underwrite an issue on a revolving basis ; or a group of banks act as a tender panel for the placement of the notes . |
| 10 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 11 | Hence , when a number of observers look at a picture , a piece of apparatus , a microscope slide , or whatever , there is a sense in which they are all confronted by , look at , and so , in a sense , ‘ see ’ the same thing . |
| 12 | There are also statutory covenants requiring landlords , of properties let at a low rent , to ensure that they are both fit for human habitation at the start of the tenancy and are kept fit for habitation throughout the lease : |
| 13 | The Warranties generally require confirmation that a state of affairs exist at a certain date , eg Completion . |
| 14 | What sort of things go into a reward menu ? |
| 15 | The rationale of the accounting reform is to use accrual accounting to provide a more complete picture of the management of public resources , particularly where the financial implications of actions extend beyond a year . |
| 16 | Where a plaintiff claims the delivery of goods let under a hire-purchase agreement to a person other than a body corporate , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it , with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods claimed ; ( 6 ) the total price of the goods ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the unpaid balance of the total price ; ( 9 ) whether a default notice or a notice under s 76(1) or s 98(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 has been served on the debtor and if it has , the date on which and the manner in which it was so served ; ( 10 ) the date when the right to demand delivery of the goods accrued ; ( 11 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as an alternative to the delivery of the goods ; and ( 12 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed in addition to the delivery of the goods or any claim under sub-paragraph ( 10 ) , stating the cause of action in respect of which each such claim is made . |
| 17 | Other areas of difference included the degree of damages open to a victim of discrimination and the extent to which court-ordered affirmative action plans were open to further legal challenge . |
| 18 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 19 | For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction . |
| 20 | Air swishes around the cavern as eighty-eight pairs of wings unfold like a complicated puzzle . |
| 21 | Semi-proletarianisation is closely linked to temporary intra-rural migration , as numbers of peasants move to a particular area for seasonal work and then move back to their small plots of land or on to another area , where a different crop has reached the planting or harvesting stage . |
| 22 | Health statistics show , for example , that in the 5-11 age range , more than a quarter of children suffer from a cough in any one month . |
| 23 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 24 | Chains of polyps dangle from a float filled with gas . |
| 25 | For the reasons specified above , the 50 schools sampled were asked to provide us both with their overall attendance rate and the numbers of pupils absent for a specific week in June and again for a specific week in November . |
| 26 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 27 | Between 1945 and 1970 there were five : in 1948–9 into questions of possible bribery of ministers , chaired by Mr Justice Lynskey ; in 1957–8 into leakage of bank rate , chaired by Lord Justice Parker ; in 1959 into allegations of police assault on a boy , chaired by Lord Sorn ; in 1962–3 into a case of spying in which a minister 's moral behaviour might have been involved , chaired by Lord Radcliffe ; and in 1966–7 into the responsibility for the Aberfan disaster , chaired by Lord Justice Edmund Davies . |
| 28 | By the time this issue of the magazine is published the exhibition of prints , Impressive Women , at the London Print Workshop , will have finished and the supportive programme of talks come to a close . |
| 29 | It 's the thought that counts … and when it comes to aid for the beleaguered people of Dubrovnik plenty of thoughts count for a lot . |
| 30 | 5 This table shows the number of students absent from a local school during one week . |