Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
| 2 | Vlasov was by this time fully aware of the likely fate of his army , many of whom had grisly crimes to answer for ; however , he himself refused to take an opportunity to escape to Spain . |
| 3 | No difference in the platelet-aggregate ratio was found between a group of 15 diabetics diagnosed after the age of 30 years ( six treated with insulin ) , some of whom had vascular complications compared to age- and sex-matched controls . |
| 4 | Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count . |
| 5 | Artists , too , have changed , some of them choosing new areas to investigate . |
| 6 | Many of them face major cuts to balance at the end of the year and one of them has dangerously low nursing levels . |
| 7 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 8 | The number of people is , to an extent , a function of union rules , but some of them have real jobs to do . |
| 9 | It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day . |
| 10 | Today the majority of Tanzania 's current total debt of $5 billion consists of obligations contracted in many similar projects financed by a wide variety of donors , many of which have similar ambiguities surrounding them . |
| 11 | One of you travelling intelletual supporters fancy some idle banter with David Mellor on the effectiveness of supporting LUFC via INET ? |
| 12 | The solar wind carried its own magnetic field , and as this sweeps past it causes electrical currents to flow in the Moon . |
| 13 | The bank asked a client of ours to give personal guarantees to cover his company 's borrowing requirements . |
| 14 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 15 | As we walked some of us played Twenty Questions to keep us going . |
| 16 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 17 | And it goes and when it goes off you have ten seconds to get up at night then |
| 18 | Most Compacts will arrange for you to have short-term targets to help you achieve the necessary goals . |
| 19 | Then your reward must be magnificent indeed , for you to run such risks to gain it . |
| 20 | Beneath them lie more layers extending downwards for thousands of feet , seemingly unchanged in character . |
| 21 | For younger visitors there is an activity room with plenty to keep small hands busy . |
| 22 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 23 | The Companies Act 1989 and regulations made under it allow listed companies to issue summary financial statements to those shareholders who do not wish to receive the full annual report and accounts . |
| 24 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 25 | The cuts will remove another two per cent from the payroll following layoffs of 1200 last year and a further round which saw 300 jobs go . |
| 26 | They are usually mixed with non-ionics in which form some types exhibit significant disinfectant properties . |
| 27 | The way in which double diffusive processes produce amplified oscillations may be understood through a simple displaced particle argument . |
| 28 | A neurone is a cell with a small centre from which stem long strands called axons and dendrites . |
| 29 | There was a moon-glow about her , from her searching green eyes flickering with bronze to soft red-gold hair ; her soul was elusive thistledown drifting in a moonbeam . |
| 30 | In it stand two heroes playing the lyre ( one no doubt Orpheus ; a third figure is lost ) , and at either end , outside the ship , a horseman , the Dioscuri again : and all these figures are absolutely frontal like statues . |