Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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31 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 ) .
32 In pursuit of this , wide powers are given to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , some of which may , and indeed have been , transferred to a ‘ designated agency ’ , known as the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) .
33 There is no simple kind of sexual liberation possible which will eradicate the neuroses caused by sexual repression without , at the same time , producing social changes , only some of which may be controllable in rational ways .
34 Even within the Home Office , one of the most heavyweight of all Whitehall Departments , the Secretary of State will have to set his own priorities between immigration and nationality , criminal justice , national security , gambling , the fire service , Sunday trading , dangerous dogs , and many other topics for legislation , some of which may be urgent , and most of which will be controversial .
35 If you have several galls , more adults should emerge in the course of the next week or two , some of which may be the adults of inquiline insects .
36 Studies of pronuclear division in fertilized eggs are useful for assessing the primary level of chromosome abnormalities , some of which may act as zygotic lethals or become disguised in subsequent cleavages .
37 Indeed , multiproduct companies will normally have a variety of means open to them for breaking even on their operation , some of which may be approximately equally efficient , so that governmental intervention to choose one amongst them , something facilitated by state ownership , is not necessarily inefficient .
38 The goal here is to illustrate the general contention set out in this book that in order to use regions in geography ( as against practising regional geography ) it is necessary to appreciate what the salient features of a region ( or place ) are — some of which may be more important to particular research tasks than others .
39 Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ .
40 Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ .
41 Full-time provision includes courses of one to three and four years ' duration , some of which may be studied as separate ‘ end-on ’ courses and many of which provide opportunities for transfer of suitable students to degree courses .
42 Serial music may be written in various idioms , some of which may have virtually no melody at all .
43 There are mountains , canyons , perhaps impact craters , and perhaps volcanoes , some of which may even be still active .
44 They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten .
45 There are several publications on the history of the Caledonian Railway , some of which may be available in local libraries .
46 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 .
47 There is a presumption ( but no more ) that it is a penalty when ‘ a single lump is made payable by way of compensation , on the occurrence of one or more or all of several events , some of which may occasion serious and others but trifling damage … ’
48 In the UK , in addition to unemployment benefits , an individual out of work may be eligible to receive other state benefits such as for dependent children ( child benefit , free school milk and meals , etc. ) , some of which may continue after re-employment .
49 In view of the nature of many illnesses , some of which may be terminal , the handling requirements will vary considerably .
50 There are several stages to a comprehensive pro-active search carried out by MC , some of which may not always be applicable :
51 Modules at this stage have minimal pre entry recommendations and offer opportunities to develop a wide range of skills , some of which may lead to vocational competence .
52 It focuses attention on observable phenomena , some of which may even be measurable , instead of highly abstract and often very vague relations between conceptual entities .
53 Whereas biochemical studies can measure enzyme activities , immunohistochemistry can only provide information on enzyme protein , some of which may be inactive .
54 The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study .
55 On the one hand the behaviour is more complicated very close to the critical parameter value , with infinitely many periodic orbits in existence on both sides of the bifurcation , some of which may be stable { 10,15,31,32 } .
56 A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result .
57 Thus , one of the arts of banking is to balance the potential cash requirements of depositors with the bank 's desire to hold a spectrum of profit-earning assets , some of which may be relatively illiquid .
58 Although Mrs Thatcher 's opposition will prevent the declaration having any legal force , the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , made it clear he would be coming forward with detailed proposals on a range of minimum social rights for workers in the 1992 single market over the next 12 months — some of which would have binding legal force throughout the Community .
59 And he certainly did not mean legends and fairy stories ( some of which would be mythical in his sense , some of which would not ) .
60 And he certainly did not mean legends and fairy stories ( some of which would be mythical in his sense , some of which would not ) .
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