Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content . |
| 2 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 3 | Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ . |
| 4 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 5 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 6 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 7 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 9 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 10 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 11 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 12 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 13 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 14 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 15 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 16 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 17 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 18 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 19 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 20 | Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ? |
| 21 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |
| 22 | She died in September 1985 within days of my agreeing to do this research . |
| 23 | This phenomenon affects all areas of the travel industry : the airlines , most of which had introduced some sort of business class travel by the mid-seventies , now sell about 50 per cent of all scheduled flight tickets to business travellers . |
| 24 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 25 | Claudia noted the plural with a sinking feeling ; she had known Dana was with Garry , but some part of her had denied that knowledge . |
| 26 | Now , I believe it to be true that before this tour — with one exception — none of you had known each other . |
| 27 | She 'd never seen swings like them before or since — wooden boats painted bright yellow with curlicues of red and green , where two of you sat facing each other and pulled alternately on ropes to swing yourselves higher and higher . |
| 28 | The two of you have followed each other halfway round the world over the years , and she 'll shut you out once she realises that your affair is something you renew periodically . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But when the pair of youse has got enough sense you can fight them off for me and all the damn priests and nuns they 'll bring along with them . ’ |
| 30 | " Yes , but is some of it going to come this way ? " |