Example sentences of "[num] [prep] them [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 2 | Seven of them use wheelchairs and so staff need to raise an extra £4,000 so twelve of them can accompany the residents , who are paying their own way . |
| 3 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 4 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 5 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 6 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 7 | Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price . |
| 8 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 9 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
| 10 | Occasionally one of them would glance the youth 's way as if expressing some general unease about him . |
| 11 | The basic purpose of the ranking is to equalize the workload among tutors and to determine which one of them will make a decision on each applicant . |
| 12 | The print is excellent value at £38 including p&p but the 100 purchasers will then be put into a hat and one of them will win the original oil painting ! |
| 13 | It should be clear from the last chapter that they both play a role in determining the equilibrium level of income and employment and that a change in any one of them will cause the level of national income to change via the multiplier effect . |
| 14 | At least one of them will have the whippier shaft which , I suspect , might in itself go a long way to doing the trick . ’ |
| 15 | Not just Labour , Conservative , every one of them will get the same answer from me ! |
| 16 | The conditions for perfect competition are that : ( a ) there should be many small firms producing identical products ( so that no individual firm can influence the price of the product or the wage rate ) ; ( b ) there should be many individual workers ( so that no one of them can influence the wage rate ) ; ( c ) there should be perfect mobility of all factors of production ; ( d ) all labour and jobs should be homogeneous ; ( e ) there should be perfect information on the part of all buyers and sellers ; ( f ) wages and prices should be perfectly flexible , upwards and downwards . |
| 17 | In a normal conversation , the people involved are of equal status , and any one of them can change the topic under discussion or introduce new points . |
| 18 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |
| 19 | They were known as ‘ bee grenades ’ , and just one of them could disperse a big group of enemies , who would flee leaving their modern weapons behind . |
| 20 | The world 's top eight fit men players arrived in Frankfurt last night agreed on one thing — any one of them could become the 1992 IBM ATP World Champion over the next six days . |
| 21 | CONGRATULATIONS to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , for proving the law that if one department is capable of one stupid press release , two between them can raise the stupidity by an order of magnitude . |
| 22 | Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election . |
| 23 | Then , unerringly , he found his way to Modigliani , wherever he was , and the two of them would drink the night away until they were unconscious , taken to the police station and beaten up . |