Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family in the song is the circle of friends , where it almost seemed , because we were so identical , that for anybody to make any progress in life , we 'd have to split up . |
| 2 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 3 | But it is equally likely to be either one of the pair , and if you average over lots of sperms ( or eggs ) it turns out that half of them contain one allele , half the other . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Professionals in academic institutions often have an administrative and managerial role within the institution ; and over 80% of managers have had a college education , half of them studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It referred to his close friendships with prominent Jewish businessmen , some of whom had commercial links with iron curtain countries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently . |
| 16 | Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When the police from the house rushed down and saw them riding away , they say some of them wore military uniform . ’ |
| 19 | Artists , too , have changed , some of them choosing new areas to investigate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Some of them contain printed reports , some sheaves of handwritten minutes held together by Treasury tags . |
| 22 | There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish . |
| 23 | The decision has left some of them facing financial hardship . |
| 24 | Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky . |
| 25 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |