Example sentences of "[det] of [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the two were incompatible was clear by the late 1140s but this of itself would not have brought about the annulment . |
| 2 | However , it must be remembered that to do this of itself would incur an exchange risk . |
| 3 | Endless manuscripts , half of them ca n't spell either . |
| 4 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 5 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 6 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 7 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 8 | As half of them would |
| 9 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Half of them could be really rich and just do n't think |
| 13 | Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street . |
| 14 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 15 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 16 | The draft constitution also proposed the replacement of the RCC by a Consultative Council with 50 members , half of whom would be appointed directly by the President and the rest elected by direct secret ballot . |
| 17 | It did n't come well from a girl who took her clothes off every night in front of an audience of five hundred , at least half of whom must be men . |
| 18 | WACC is supporting a training programme for a team of 15 ‘ verbal stringers ’ ( or reporters ) , at least half of whom will be women . |
| 19 | I would be apportioned my six — half of which would be business — Joyce would set about her one hundred and sixty-six . |
| 20 | Later plans involved an additional expenditure of about £150 million to take the railway into Bank , about half of which would be met by the Canary Wharf developers ( see below ) . |
| 21 | She already has 70 people will to pay just £2 per month for ten months , half of which will go to Breakthrough , and the rest to provide prizes , and she needs just 30 more to make the One Hundred Club work . |
| 22 | But one very rough guess by Paul Portney of Resources for the Future suggests a cumulative cost , in 1990 dollars , of perhaps $136 billion , roughly half of which will fall on the private sector and disproportionately on manufacturing . |
| 23 | The lottery is expected to raise around £1 billion per year , about half of which will be used to support the arts ( in particular the national heritage ) , with the remainder allocated to protection of the environment , sports and charities . |
| 24 | This will be supplemented by an intensive study of 40 households , half of which will include at least one unemployed adult worker , in an attempt to ascertain the cultural significance of the broad social and economic developments that will be uncovered in the previous sections of the research . |
| 25 | Each will cover between 40 and 80 square miles , about half of which will be cloaked in trees . |
| 26 | Start with a length of about seven metres of wire , precisely half of which should be spooled onto a shuttle thin enough to pass through the centre of the toroid . |
| 27 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 28 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 29 | Realeat founder Greg Sams predicts that within 20 years half of us will have a vegetable-based diet , and the greatest swing has been seen among the young . |
| 30 | If the Government accepts this ridiculous advice , half of us will be put on the dole . |