Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of them went to British colonies , mainly to the sugar islands , and the rest were sold in other colonies in the Americas . |
| 2 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 4 | Inset The right travelling bags denoted the smart set , some of whom came with dozens of pieces of luggage and servants to unpack them . |
| 5 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
| 6 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 7 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 8 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 9 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 10 | I do n't know why some of them get like that , well of course they should n't be doctors any how . |
| 11 | So elegant chateaux , some of them pressed into contemporary usefulness without loss of character , exist beside new swimming pools . |
| 12 | ‘ Some of them return with minimum or no mutation at all , ’ Gilbert mumbled from his seat . |
| 13 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 14 | A few chambers have set a shining example by stating that they will grant pupillages ( some of them accompanied by monetary awards ) by open competition ; if you wish to apply , write for details to John Stuart Colyer Esq . |
| 15 | There was some of them billeted in private houses , and we just had a two r bedroom house out at Whale Park a Peedie bungalow . |
| 16 | Many organists are recruited from outside , some of them playing for all the denominations which use the one chapel . |
| 17 | The term ‘ house churches ’ is applied to a variety of congregations , Some of them belong to organised groupings , but all are characterised by a common emphasis on the dynamic activity of the Holy Spirit in the lives of their members . |
| 18 | It was found in 1902 that perhaps 50,000 children in England and Wales were working more than 20 hours a week in addition to 27½ hours at school , some of them working between 30 and 50 hours a week . |
| 19 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
| 20 | They form a group in the courtyard , some of them talking to each other , some walking up and down , one chatting to the policeman at the gate . |
| 21 | Of all the animals that sham dead it is the snakes that are the star performers , some of them going to amazing lengths to convince their assailants that they are truly deceased . |
| 22 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 23 | Some of them travelled in fifth class , which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort . |
| 24 | There were even Jacobite ballads , some of them performed by itinerant singers ; in this way , the Jacobite message could be transmitted even to those who could not read . |
| 25 | He said he got angry at the absolute resistance to any kind of moderate reform and at the dismissive way some of them spoke about poor old Trueman . |
| 26 | Many smaller pension funds invest in property unit trusts , some of which specialise in overseas property , and hence gain portfolio diversification in their own portfolios by including property , but also benefit from being diversified in the property market . |
| 27 | They need regular injections of Factor 8 , some of which came into this country infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 28 | These specimens are well-preserved in a clay matrix , some of which adheres to one of the specimens . |
| 29 | There are many such areas , each containing a full or partial representation of the visual field , some of which receive a direct input from the primary area and some of which rely on indirect projections for their inputs . |
| 30 | Well in some of he boxes like that and once he hits them , and he knows he 's hurt them , then they |