Example sentences of "[pron] of [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 2 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 3 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 4 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 5 | Let's look in this bucket and see which of these things will float and which of them will sink . |
| 6 | Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years . |
| 7 | First , is it inevitable that political parties , not voters , should rank candidates on their lists , and thus decide which of them will have the best chances of being elected ? |
| 8 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 9 | As the four-man squad loped , half-crouching , along the space station 's strangely-twisting corridors , Ace and Daak were squabbling about which of them should guard the other 's back . |
| 10 | Which of you would like coffee and what kind ? |
| 11 | Delia Sutherland was thinking : Who 'll be the first , which of you will speak up ? |
| 12 | ‘ Which of you can take on men ? ’ he sniggered . |
| 13 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 14 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 15 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 16 | Which of us can hope for anything better than that to be said about us ? |
| 17 | Which of us can afford to forgo a chance like that in these troubled times ? ’ |
| 18 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 19 | Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it . |
| 20 | He was cheered by 3,000 people , almost none of whom would qualify for abode or refuge under the current package . |
| 21 | from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period . |
| 22 | The novel administrative tasks of industrialized and competing nation — states — public education , public welfare , urbanization — all create powerful pressures for centralization and bureaucratization , none of which would lessen or disappear under socialist governments . |
| 23 | It is salutary to be reminded that in many situations and many respects society is not simply divisible into two parts , the majority and the minority , but is in fact a conglomeration of minorities , none of which can have a democratic claim to dominate , and which must therefore learn to live with each other . |
| 24 | The inter-war era saw the birth of some great cars , none of which could match the elegance and speed of the Type 35 Bugatti which first appeared in 1924 , and was to be credited with more than 2000 wins during its life-time . |
| 25 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 26 | Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’ |
| 27 | I mean , I did , but I also had ‘ up ’ and ‘ down ’ , and none of them would do . |
| 28 | But none of them would do for today . |
| 29 | This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone . |
| 30 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |