Example sentences of "and [det] [prep] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are nine genes , and each of them can take any of 19 values . |
| 2 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 3 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 4 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 5 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 6 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 7 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 8 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 9 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 10 | They were to be renamed Colleges of Education ; a new degree , to be called Bachelor of Education and validated by the universities , would be introduced for their more able students ; they should be removed from the public sector and closely linked with the universities ; and some of them should become universities in their own right . |
| 11 | There were plenty of people in the pub , and some of them must have overheard Dennis 's vicious mockery of our suggested alternatives , a walk on Shotover or Otmoor , for example . |
| 12 | But they do occur , and some of them could have been avoided . |
| 13 | Er yes , yes , some of them will come and some of them will go , and er |
| 14 | And some of them will go to extraordinary lengths to try to find out . |
| 15 | They are prolific meeting-goers who ca n't do the job themselves and some of them will become consultants later in their careers . ’ |
| 16 | After about 3 weeks , more of the larvae will have turned into pupae and some of them will have hatched into adults . |
| 17 | Now , some of them will come from the Labour Party , and some of them will come from other associations not yet formed — I accept that as well — but I say this : in whatever shape these new forces manifest themselves , they will come from you , the despised students of humanity . ’ |
| 18 | They think it is a geometry exercise and some of them will produce accurate classical descriptions which you can acknowledge with a nod . |
| 19 | MdBs generally stand high in public esteem — higher than our own MPs — and half of them will have entered the Bundestag by way of party lists . |
| 20 | Not one of them , he said , was able to read the Bible correctly , but all could dance a quadrille , sing , and half of them could waltz . |
| 21 | sometimes come to Glasgow and either of them could go up to Stirling |
| 22 | The Man had taken his jacket off and was holding it out in front of him and all of them could see what he intended to do . |
| 23 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 24 | Spiders are close relatives of scorpions and many of them can deliver a painful bite . |
| 25 | Thus in a rapidly growing population there will be relatively few older people , as in many contemporary Third World countries ; while in a stagnant population they will be relatively more numerous , and more of them will lack the support of children . |
| 26 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool : Middlesbrough Town Hall It is always good to see big-name comedy acts reaching the North-East other than in Newcastle , more especially when there are two such acts and both of them can keep a crowd laughing all evening . |
| 27 | One of the teachers was saying that you give children pieces of paper to draw anything and most of them will draw a soldier carrying a gun or Caspers , or helicopters , something to do with war . |
| 28 | There were troubles to start with , but you ask any of the schools in the south whether they want Direct Services back , and most of them will say , thank you we 'll keep , we 're very pleased with them . |
| 29 | ‘ Once we get people in a bookshop we can sell books to them , and most of them will buy more than one . ’ |