Example sentences of "[det] of [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the information the tail-ender picks up is probably less than half of what the expert picks up . |
| 2 | Bosses cut their pay to half of what the trainee earns |
| 3 | We missed half of what the instructor told us . |
| 4 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 5 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 6 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 7 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 8 | One of the more spectacular sites is in Gregory , Texas , where some 4 million tonnes of bauxite are kept in dumps , some of them the height of a six storey building . |
| 9 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 10 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |
| 11 | For teachers and other educators therefore the effectiveness of the library 's retrieval system is a matter of concern , and for some of them the way in which the retrieval system forces the enquirer to conceptualize his need is in itself a matter for educational as well as bibliothecal decision . |
| 12 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 13 | This is particularly noticeable in Picasso 's drastic treatment of the human body in the series of paintings under discussion ; in some of them the subject 's limbs are abruptly truncated . |
| 14 | In August 1974 Brian Johnson broadcast an appeal for radio equipment , which resulted in many offers , some of which the Museum were able to accept . |
| 15 | Sociologists have shown in a variety of bureaucratic and semi-bureaucratic contexts that , beneath the surface of formal rules and procedures , lie structures of informal rules — some of which the participants themselves may not be consciously aware — but which they , nevertheless , use to interpret and make sense of their more formal obligations and duties . |
| 16 | There were , moreover , rather more poor urban dwellers still lacking electricity supply than there were rural dwellers , and investment in the reinforcement , standardisation and extension of urban supplies ( some of which the Boards considered would be remunerative ) was being cut back while this uneconomic development of rural areas was pressed forward . |
| 17 | Third party security may be given , however , in a wide variety of cases in some of which the relationship between the surety and the debtor will be of a business character rather than matrimonial . |
| 18 | The contract was for the sale by a Dutch company of aluminium foil some of which the buyers ( an English company ) were to use in their manufacturing process . |
| 19 | erm , in some of which the Minster is clearly visible , |
| 20 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 21 | We have grown used to some kind of safety net , extended beneath us in Western countries , even if for some of us the holes seem to be getting bigger by the day . |
| 22 | I hope , then , that this report on those who matriculated in 1966 will give some of us the opportunity to renew some of those special friendships — formed at a peculiarly impressionable time of our lives — with those with whom we have failed to keep in touch . |
| 23 | He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own . |
| 24 | We were well aware of our limitations long before David Steer ( 1980 ) pointed out that ‘ the great majority of crime detections involve little of what the public would perceive as real detective ability ’ . |
| 25 | She had seen little of him the first two days . |
| 26 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 27 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 28 | The relevant fiscal targets are the levels of government expenditure G and taxation T , each of which the government tries to control via instruments . |
| 29 | The store is a collection of store locations or words , into each of which the computer can place a piece of information , to be retained for later extraction and use . |
| 30 | The only major Ottoman initiatives against the Karamanids in the years immediately before 822/1419 that are reported by the Turkish sources are two campaigns , apparently in successive years , in each of which the Ottomans defeated Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey and attacked Konya . |