Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Anthony Smith , of the Consumers ' Association , said they had received 21 complaints about the machines — 12 of them describing serious fires . |
2 | The results of this ‘ biochemical modulation ’ were reported in 1986 in a study of 100 patients — 59 of whom responded and 12 of whom had complete remissions . |
3 | There 's 9,000 shivering punters in here , 7,500 of which have blank faces . |
4 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
5 | The roundel is " supported " by the intrusion of large triangles into the field , three of which contain distinctive motifs . |
6 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
7 | Three of them use online services to a reasonable extent , while the other two make limited use of them . |
8 | I learned to canoe years ago when three of us put borrowed boats in the water at Glasbury and pulled them out , finally , several days later at Tintern , having gone down the Wye . |
9 | From breakfast until the three of us cracked late-night beers , the place grooved to Aretha and the other mamas . |
10 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
11 | In addition there are 44 colleges , 11 of which offer full-time courses of at least three years . |
12 | I for one have formal qualifications in electronics and know when the wool 's being pulled , but others do n't and that 's your job . |
13 | There are eight bedrooms , five of which have private facilities . |
14 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
15 | It will mean the loss of 58 shops , 38 of which provide key services to local people . |
16 | It is worth reminding the House what the Bill , if enacted in its present form , would involve : the loss of 83 homes , the displacement of 326 residents , the demolition of four listed buildings , the destruction of well over 10 acres of property in two conservation areas , the destruction of a two-acre inner-city nature reserve of great value to the local community , the loss of 168 workplaces providing 1,620 jobs , the loss of 58 shops , 38 of which provide key services to local people , the diversion of a major traffic artery for a period of three years , a doubling of the number of rail passengers and a doubling of the number of cars and taxis coming to King 's Cross and St. Pancras during the morning peak hour . |
17 | There were seven patients over the age of 60 who have had a restorative proctocolectomy , one of whom had longstanding polyps and high grade dysplasia ; the rest had ulcerative colitis . |
18 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
19 | I was running along the pavement of Rochdale Road , just after midnight , wearing , among other things , two quilted anoraks , one of which had fourteen pounds of sand sewn into the lining . |
20 | The cat bit her , leaving two wounds in her hand , one of which needed two stitches , and then shot downstairs , disappearing through an open window . |
21 | The paper described five cases , in one of which computed tomographic findings were abnormal . |
22 | In addition , about 36 fragments of metallic nickel-iron meteorites have been collected , one of which contains minute diamonds , and is the second of its kind known in the world . |
23 | Before the war the BBC ran two stations , one of which included regional programmes . |
24 | Er no , but one of them collected these ones . |
25 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
26 | Two men sat at a table near the counter , one of them pushing huge forkfuls of food into his mouth , the other sipping at a cup of tea . |
27 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
28 | … missions : Two more relief convoys leave Cleveland for Romania this weekend one of them carrying 4,000 pairs of shoes ! |
29 | One of you travelling intelletual supporters fancy some idle banter with David Mellor on the effectiveness of supporting LUFC via INET ? |
30 | I 'm sure that neither one of us has any thoughts along those lines at all . |