Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other jurists between them reach a grand total of eleven cases ( none of which may be attributed to petitioners ) . |
| 2 | Internally the school is organized into separate departments , primary and secondary , which between them cover the entire school age range . |
| 3 | Because complementary medicine is a highly diverse category , the research will focus on and compare three complementary therapies — homeopaths , chiropractors and reflexologists — which between them illustrate a good selection of the issues faced by complementary practitioners and of the different ways in which these issues have been dealt with . |
| 4 | It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years . |
| 5 | The crew are coached by vice-captain David Storrs and Derek Gordon who between them have an immense depth of experience at the highest level . |
| 6 | They ran the cell all day , after which time a green crust had formed on the cathode . |
| 7 | Those who are looking after her have a difficult task and it should not be made more difficult by being harassed by requests for information . |
| 8 | She went slowly to the refrigerator , took out a block of ice cream , cut three slices off it and put them into glass dishes , then plonked the dishes on the table , during which time a new idea came to her . |
| 9 | They voted by 19 to 6 in favour of a two year moratorium , during which time a scientific committee will ‘ review the scientific and technical considerations relevant to the proposed amendments ’ . |
| 10 | Faced with the immediate prospect of a serious coal dispute and fuel crisis the Baldwin government decided to provide a nine-month subsidy to the coal owners , during which time a royal commission , the Samuel Commission , would investigate the coal industry . |
| 11 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 12 | the exercise encouraged greater communication with governors ( a number of whom read the whole study ) , and between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and more junior staff ( who seemed to be more willing to ask for help ) ; |
| 13 | It should come as no surprise that , in a society with increasing numbers of very old people , proportionately and absolutely , a substantial proportion of whom have a serious degree of mental infirmity , a significant number will suffer abuse . |
| 14 | More recent writers have confidence in their role — as story-tellers rather than moral teachers — and more confidence in their young readers , most of whom have a working ethical sense . |
| 15 | Most of the cavers I have met , and I have met hundreds , have been careful and courageous people who cave for the adventure , challenge and hard physical exercise , and most of whom have a deep appreciation of the beauties of underground limestone . |
| 16 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |
| 17 | 1962 : EMI introduces its Stateside label , licensing material from scores of US companies including A&M , Tamla Motown , Vee Jay and ABC , all of whom have no British outlets of their own . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 19 | That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice . |
| 20 | Both of them take the present sexual division of labour as given and understand that this has important implications for women in their search for an income . |
| 21 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 22 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 23 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 24 | In addition the information society substitutes brain for brawn : 70 per cent of its jobs require intellectual skills and at least half of them require a professional qualification or education to degree standard . |
| 25 | Nearly all of them use a formulaic phrase : ‘ I dug him downstairs and his belly rolled over to there . ’ |
| 26 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 27 | Where the firm is taking over another practice , accepting its outstanding liabilities and receiving payments for work in progress at the date of the takeover , these matters should be spelled out , particularly where the partners of the acquired practice or some of them join the new firm . |
| 28 | Many of them maintain a fixed parity between their own currencies and the French franc . |
| 29 | And there 's only one sure way to do that : recruit and train them individually or in pairs but never let any one of them see the whole list . ’ |
| 30 | Many of them offer an excellent service at a more economical price than the five-star hotels and most of them have a swimming pool , tennis courts and gardens along with night-time entertainment and a relaxed family atmosphere . |