Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the eighteenth century about 70,000 slaves a year were being taken across the Atlantic , half of them in British ships . |
| 2 | He picked up his tankard and drank off half of it in one gulp . |
| 3 | On one unsettling day 13 professionals were released , 12 of them on free transfers . |
| 4 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 5 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 6 | Emus wandered over the open country hooting their hollow cries ; and troops of kangaroos , some of them of gigantic size , grazed peacefully in their primitive pastures . |
| 7 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 8 | It makes fifty stops en route , some of them of considerable duration , and , as has been shown , much time must be wasted at stations . |
| 9 | It is , however , due to the large number of copies which the Romans had made of Greek masterpieces , some of them of high quality , that we owe our wide knowledge of such work today . |
| 10 | More than seven thousand have gone on to become officers , some of them of high rank . |
| 11 | Rain had met some of them on previous occasions . |
| 12 | We will discuss some of them at various points in this book . |
| 13 | The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length . |
| 14 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 15 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 16 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 17 | More liberal constituencies in the party , some of them with close links to Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife , then spent the last half of 1992 making sure that their claims on the presidency were not forgotten . |
| 18 | He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack-key instead of slide — there were a number of different models . |
| 19 | It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth . |
| 20 | But this week 's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000 , some of them with heavy weapons . |
| 21 | About three quarters of the contestants at each board are graded as suitable for the candidates ' list , some of them with recommended restrictions ( the Indian doctor was reckoned ‘ suitable for consideration for an ethnic seat ’ ) . |
| 22 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 23 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 24 | What makes it appropriate right now to recognise the great promise of the Orbital engine is Ford 's bold decision to manufacture 60 prototype two-stroke Fiestas and lend some of them to high-mileage users . |
| 25 | The lenders of the Consumer Credit Association , also formed in 1975 , were aware of the reputation of some of them for irresponsible lending . |
| 26 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 27 | The dominant approach to behaviour problems in schools is based on identifying and categorizing individual pupils with a view to removing some of them from mainstream schools . |
| 28 | Some of the poems in the present book , only his second , are so old that I seem to remember some of them from another world . |
| 29 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 30 | The young men were turned out and the girls looked very pretty , some of them in microscopic skirts ! |