Example sentences of "of [pron] be [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 2 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 3 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 4 | The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt . |
| 5 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 6 | The LCAC advice was produced in April , the effect of which was to reject any extension for rights of audience for the CPS and other employed lawyers and the Advisory Committee concluded that the Law Society 's application was inadequate in certain respects . |
| 7 | Commissioned by Chapman & Hall , not as a novel but as the letterpress for a series of comic designs by Robert Seymour , 4 of which were to appear each month , about a club of sporting characters ; at that date novels were not published in monthly parts , a form commonly used for illustrated works . |
| 8 | The satellite picture gives us a good indication of what 's to come this weekend . |
| 9 | Now I love the Labour Party and a lot of what was said this morning was painful . |
| 10 | Neither of us is making much sense of this right now . |
| 11 | We can not live without it , but many of us are living each day with too little of it . |
| 12 | Chloe seems to have inherited it and the pair of us are wheezing all night long . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Now do n't be mean , ’ Pol said , ‘ and where would the likes of us be getting any money ? ’ |