Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Such methods are outside the scope of this book , but those who are interested in reading more about them will find relevant books in Suggested Reading on p. 141 . |
| 2 | At the early end of parenting women can spend literally years in a state of near exhaustion , which for them can make sexual relations very unattractive . |
| 3 | When the firing stopped , 13 Catholic had been killed and 29 wounded , one of whom would die several weeks later . |
| 4 | There are now more parents either one or both of whom will have higher qualifications and it is unlikely that parents with higher qualifications will desire less education for their children . |
| 5 | Some of them may involve social policies ; others may involve environmental policies on which we shall have to give ground during the next 10 , 15 or 20 years . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take-over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . |
| 7 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
| 8 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 9 | None of them would trust such men a yard . |
| 10 | So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it . |
| 11 | Arranging the carbon atoms in a ring satisfied the laws of valency , since each of them could share two bonds with one of its neighbour , leaving another one to attach to the hydrogen atoms arranged around the outside . |
| 12 | One of them will eat ten flies every hour , so if we got six of them it 'll be ten times six . |
| 13 | Nearly 200,000 of them will face such rises for at least five years . |
| 14 | You will find that all of these will help , but perhaps one of them will have better results for you than the other two . |
| 15 | Now in this case , four of them will take twelve hours . |
| 16 | Yeah , but I wonder how many of them can answer these questions |
| 17 | In Doctor Faustus whether heaven and hell are ‘ discovered ’ in a manner which confirms conventional expectations of them can have drastic implications for the play 's destination , the impact it makes on its audience . |
| 18 | Some of them used to wear normal clothes if they were going home afterwards , some would come in uniform but without their keys . |
| 19 | The ‘ fact ’ of the first premiss covers all and no more than the facts awareness of which would modify spontaneous reactions to the issue in question ; ‘ Face facts ’ will be applicable to the issue only within the scope of this information . |
| 20 | All of which would produce rueful sighs among the backers of a small Cornish mine called Wheal Concord . |
| 21 | The traditional line-item budget has the following defects : ( a ) The budget is subdivided on the basis of department or activity centres , each of which may operate several programmes either individually or as joint ventures . |
| 22 | These plants , part or all of which may cause ill effects , can all be found in this country . |
| 23 | Scientists face a constant struggle to segregate themselves from the inducements offered by governments , pressure groups and publishers , all of which may provide alternative sources of funding and prestige to those of their colleagues . |
| 24 | A given type of clause will therefore have one unmarked thematic structure , variations of which will produce different types of marked theme . |
| 25 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that it is the Government 's intention to continue to reduce taxes and deregulate , both of which will help small businesses ? |
| 26 | The Soviet Union had agreed to reduce from 308 to 154 its arsenal of SS-18s , the heaviest ICBM in the world , each of which could carry 10 warheads . |
| 27 | 3 options are on the table , 2 of which could involve acute services being closed . |
| 28 | You start the game with three Sopwith Camels ( the best Allied aircraft of WWI ) , each of which can absorb four hits before crashing to the ground . |
| 29 | By 1992 there will be more than 16 million miles of fibre-optic cable in place , each of which can carry 160 times more information than a copper wire . |
| 30 | Gluing is not so much a skilled job as a responsible one and a large number of mistakes are available to a determined man , all of which can have dangerous results . |