Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general postulates of each theory have , however , much in common : the contrasts between them depend on the phylogenetic features brought to the varying ecological conditions of life in which the animals live . |
| 2 | The experts who study child abuse — most of whom come from the medical and psychological professions — tend to adopt a rather different approach . |
| 3 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 4 | The 450,000 employees , 300,000 of whom work in the postal service , are unhappy . |
| 5 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 6 | Most of them are opportunists , most of them come from the local area they 'll know the housing estates and whatever happens . |
| 7 | The point is — and our survey reveals it — that such an amount does deter some youngsters from participating in tournaments and again with respect , I would guess that few of them come from the lovely part of the country from where you write . |
| 8 | Begonias are particular favourites and a gaggle of them gather on the paved area near the front door resplendent in pink , scarlet and yellow . |
| 9 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 10 | At least that is one message 1500 of them gape at the first ever BAYSDAY , held earlier this month at various institutions in London 's museum heartland . |
| 11 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 12 | Will one of them tumble to the heretical truth , that they have sprung from a remote , earlier form of life , rooted in organic , carbon chemistry , rather than the silicon-based electronic principles of their own bodies ? |
| 13 | So when you realise it 's somewhere about three hundred and fifty thousand chartered engineers in th U K as a whole you 'll see most of them belong to the three major organisations . |
| 14 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
| 15 | Companies have other attractions besides the limitation of members ' liability , most of which flow from the separate legal personality with which corporations are endowed under English law . |
| 16 | Contracts for the acquisition of computer equipment and software present special problems , many of which flow from the unique nature of computer technology . |
| 17 | Apart from the works cited in this introduction , some of which refer to the American and Australian literature , there are now two books specifically directed to the analysis of many of these issues within a British context . |
| 18 | Typical layout of a rabbit warren , showing the entrances , bolt-holes and dead-ends , all of which figure in the ferreting technique . |
| 19 | all of which calibrate to the Early or Middle Bronze Age ; such a body of evidence can not be chance . |
| 20 | In his study of the problems of implementing the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales , Richards describes the various means that ‘ exist to facilitate county/district co-operation , some of which depend on the 1972 Act and some of which do not ’ ( Richards 1975b:76 ) . |
| 21 | In the Tertiary period , weathering produced a deep regolith ( Fitzpatrick , 1963 ) , the remnants of which exist in the Outer Hebrides at a few sites protected from severe glacial erosion ( Glentworth , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | There are no less than seventeen ethnically based departments of education , eleven of which deal with the black population . |
| 23 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 24 | Finally the position of the mouth of the river at all stages may not be known so that we may not be certain of which stretch of the former river we are dealing with . |
| 25 | Coal Measures ’ coals are the accepted gas source , the highest frequency of which occur in the Westphalian A and B sequences of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures . |
| 26 | These openings , some of which occur in the same place year after year , are often of great biological importance , allowing light to penetrate , phytoplankton to bloom , and whales , seals and seabirds to survive when the rest of the sea remains covered . |
| 27 | Switzerland is famous for six cheeses , four of which belong to the semi-hard family , although they are sometimes referred to as hard cheeses . |
| 28 | There are , however , four distinct stages in the development of phylloxera , all of which belong to the same Phylloxera vastatrix life-cycle : the sexual , the leaf , the root and the winged form . |
| 29 | All surfaces — dome , drum , pillars , chancel screen and walls are covered in paintings , some of which belong to the fourteenth century building period ( 232 ) . |
| 30 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |