Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ .
2 Fewer than half of them wanted further education , while 29 per cent wanted training for skilled work , 9 per cent wanted vocational training and 15 per cent aspired to higher education .
3 About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent .
4 The results of this ‘ biochemical modulation ’ were reported in 1986 in a study of 100 patients — 59 of whom responded and 12 of whom had complete remissions .
5 In addition , Roycayrol and Cattan studied fundic biopsy specimens of 18 totally achlorhydric patients , 12 of whom had pernicious anaemia .
6 For medical treatment they and their children depended upon the Poor Law or , mainly in the cities , medical charities , or upon the charity of doctors , some of whom treated poor families free of charge or ran medical clubs of their own to which poorer patients could make small contributions .
7 On recruitment to the second study 86 subjects , some of whom had symptomatic infections , rated their mood and performed 10 minute versions of the simple reaction time task and serial response task .
8 It referred to his close friendships with prominent Jewish businessmen , some of whom had commercial links with iron curtain countries .
9 There are many young men who will mourn her departure from the ranks of the available , ah ( sigh ) , some of whom had fond memories of her , others , merely hopes .
10 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 .
11 This opposition — a minority , but a significant one — cohered around disaffected Liberal cooperators , some of whom occupied influential positions in the society and were active in the Municipal Alliance .
12 Whereas academic philosophers with a vested interest in preserving the Aristotelian world-picture were united against Galileo , there was no such unanimity among his clerical contacts , some of whom gave constructive advice .
13 Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently .
14 Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count .
15 Added to the Bonapartes were the Murats , the Tascher de la Pagerie ( relatives of Josephine ) and descendants of the ‘ Italian marriages ’ — the Primolis and the Bacciochis , some of whom held honorary positions at Court , Count Bacciochi , for example , being a Court Chamberlain .
16 When the police from the house rushed down and saw them riding away , they say some of them wore military uniform . ’
17 They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example .
18 Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky .
19 I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries .
20 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
21 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
22 Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war .
23 Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast .
24 Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed .
25 Last year 's survey was carried out with a group of practitioners at an audit regulation meeting run by the Southern Society , and in view of the continuing concerns about regulation , we repeated this exercise with 160 practitioners who attended a similar meeting in October 1992. 64 responses were received , some of which represented one response from several representatives of the same firm .
26 Mr Hawkins , of Sutton Benger , near Chippenham , Wilts , declined to comment on the calls , some of which lasted 15 minutes , at a cost of 48p a minute .
27 Various regional movements emerged , some of which became political parties .
28 In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism .
29 Martin recorded several plants which indicated diuretic properties , some of which had purgative effects , and others which ‘ cured the fluxes ’ , such as the syrup of bilberries .
30 A large collection of sun-hats hung on pegs in the entrance hall , bowls were filled with dried lavender and a huge pottery jar was crammed with walking-sticks , some of which had ornate silver handles .
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