Example sentences of "[det] of [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn . |
| 2 | It is unfortunately very easy sometimes to let the eyes wander — and the mind as well — if an elderly person is running the gamut of a whole list of troubles , some of which may seem more like minor irritations . |
| 3 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 4 | Serial music may be written in various idioms , some of which may have virtually no melody at all . |
| 5 | Similar ideas , some of which will come up rather frequently , can be removed by a preliminary screening , but there will still be a great deal to get through , so warn the judges in advance . |
| 6 | One prominent tendency in recent Marxist thought , therefore , has been to replace the relatively simple and precise evolutionary scheme of Marx 's 1859 Preface by a more complex and indefinite picture of the history of society in which , beyond the primitive communal stage , two broad types of society are distinguished — pre-capitalist and capitalist each of which may develop very diverse forms of economy , politics and culture . |
| 7 | BRITAIN has some 2000 large reservoirs , each of which can hold more than 23 million litres of water . |
| 8 | It brings a fleet of seven 44-seater British Aerospace aircraft to Liverpool , each of which can carry up to six tonnes of freight . |
| 9 | The Liverpool-based operation has recently designed , developed and installed 25 new document scanning machines , each of which can handle up to 25,000 pools coupons an hour . |
| 10 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 11 | The 68360 combines a 68020-based 32-bit central processing core and a RISC-based communications controller managing four high-bandwidth serial communications channels , each of which can support up to eight major communications protocols . |
| 12 | But the incident , so much of which will live forever in the mind 's eye , leaps vividly onto screen . |
| 13 | In these circumstances tournaments were not confined within enclosed lists but ranged over several square miles of ground , taking in villages , woods and vineyards , all of which might suffer as much damage as in real war . |
| 14 | There are a number of suitable subjects , all of which should do reasonably well , even if it does get cool . |
| 15 | There may be , within this bonfire — and until it 's taken apart we will not be able to ascertain this — there may be petroleum cans in there , there may be small L P G cylinders , all of which will go off with a very large explosion and possibly cause some injury to life . |
| 16 | To coincide with the change , the Haslemere company have reorganised into three divisions — environmental , maritime and engineering — all of which will work together to find the best environmental solution . |
| 17 | Affected dogs should be treated with an anthelmintic , such as thenium , mebendazole , fenbendazole , dichlorvos and nitroscanate , all of which will kill both adult and developing intestinal stages . |
| 18 | This will be called compound , and its main characteristic is that it can be analysed into two words , both of which can exist independently as English words . |
| 19 | Thorough preparation of the plot before sowing also say off those other perennial horrors , couch and horsetail , both of which can go down 6ft or more and spread in all directions . |
| 20 | That a legal system should develop two separate concepts of ownership , both of which can apply simultaneously to the same property , and effectively two separate legal systems , is by no means self-evident . |
| 21 | Investments : For Albion Bank this primarily represents funds invested in British Government stocks ( loans to the government ) , most of which will have less than five years to maturity , i.e. repayment . |