Example sentences of "[det] of [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] been " in BNC.
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1 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
2 | They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten . |
3 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
4 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
5 | They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities . |
6 | All of which would have been bad enough without Charlotte 's final revelation . |
7 | The villa at Box , Wilts. , had pavements of white limestone ( used for much of the background work ) , blue-black lias , a dark-grey/ chocolate-coloured pennant stone , red from broken tiles and yellow oolite ; all of which would have been procurable within about five miles of the site . |
8 | At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) . |
9 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
10 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
11 | The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus . |
12 | The remainder of the treatment would have cost a further £23,000 , most of which would have been recouped in return for appearing in advertising promotions . |