Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Newspapers frequently publish macabre photographs of people who have been cut , too late , from the innards of enormous snakes , some of which reach thirty feet long . |
6 | News of Mr Porras 's arrest followed the explosion of 13 bombs at the weekend , some of which damaged six schools in Bogota . |
7 | It flooded across stream divides of the plateau , some of which stood 300–400 feet above today 's bounding valley bottoms . |
8 | As we walked some of us played Twenty Questions to keep us going . |
9 | Then there are n stages , each of which generates one quotient bit and a new partial remainder . |
10 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
11 | Bit mapped graphics : Certainly the most common , these derive their name from the fact that they are made up from individual dots or pixels , each of which represents one bit of computer memory . |
12 | If you think about it , this is a naive question , since it would be possible ( in theory ) to construct a TV schedule to get 100 TVRs by using 100 spots which each achieved one TVR or by using four spots each of which achieved 25 TVRs . |
13 | At this point , having reached the end of the ‘ second sentence ’ , we can confirm that all the conventional classical music examined seems to be built in sentences , each of which comprises two phrases of the ‘ question and answer ’ type . |
14 | Although there are only 15 contractors , they have between them 50-odd transmitters , each of which needs two copies of the commercial ( at least ) , so allowing for your own copies and back-up stock , you will need 115 or so bulks for a national campaign . |
15 | Each disc consists of 40 tracks , each of which contains 18 sectors . |
16 | The USAF plans to organise its ground-launched cruise missiles into ‘ flights ’ , each of which carries 16 weapons . |
17 | Each child was proud of how good they had been , each of them earning three stickers for the three meals . |
18 | The largest of them have lion mouths and a lion face on the base of the barrel ; these were cast in 1599 in Munich for Duke Maximilian I. Each of them weighs 7,225 lbs . |
19 | Rick tried to ensure their involvement by inviting each of them to contribute one unit of activities to the year 's scheme of work . |
20 | He was evaluated by two ophthalmologists each of whom diagnosed CMV retinitis . |
21 | Each of us invested ten shillings and we met to decide our bets . |
22 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
23 | The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next . |
24 | And all of them had one thing in mind . |
25 | Our branch has just short of 100 members all of whom received 2 books of lottery tickets to sell by the end of July . |
26 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
27 | However , I stayed a bit longer and when all the girls , all of us had three months ' notice to leave , it was dreadful , you see , because we were fully trained by that time you see . |
28 | We are in chaos here until we get all Angela 's work redistributed , we 're all of us doing five things at once . |
29 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
30 | If the same thing had happened after World War Two , when many of us had six years of war , we would all have crept under the table and wept . |