Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many readers will be familiar with both , but I have included the following for those for whom brief easy-to-find summaries will be useful . |
| 2 | For medical treatment they and their children depended upon the Poor Law or , mainly in the cities , medical charities , or upon the charity of doctors , some of whom treated poor families free of charge or ran medical clubs of their own to which poorer patients could make small contributions . |
| 3 | Coalbrookdale acted like a magnet on artists , most of whom painted romantic images of the iron bridge in its wooded valley setting , and the bridge itself was soon being promoted as a tourist attraction . |
| 4 | One explanation is that Uganda 's two most prominent leaders in the recent past were Idi Amin and Milton Obote , both of whom set worldwide standards for venality and corruption . |
| 5 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 6 | They had six sons , one of whom died young and four of whom became Anglican clergymen , and seven daughters . |
| 7 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 8 | The final stages of the negotiations coincided with the presence of Michael Clapham as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr as Chief Officer , both of whom played influential parts in the process . |
| 9 | Dufeck , also in 1990 described his experience with the procedure in 15 patients , five ( 33% ) of whom developed biliary complications , two requiring surgery , and three a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography to establish drainage ; 13 patients were symptom free at a median follow up of 25 months . |
| 10 | The array of tyres and cones failed to daunt the 20 competitors , most of whom managed clear rounds . |
| 11 | The hospital admitted 35 people , four of whom had serious injuries — including one man with multiple injuries . |
| 12 | Vlasov was by this time fully aware of the likely fate of his army , many of whom had grisly crimes to answer for ; however , he himself refused to take an opportunity to escape to Spain . |
| 13 | Thorpe J. having held that ‘ there is no doubt at all that J. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , ’ I shall assume that , so far as the common law is concerned , Lord Scarman would have decided that neither the local authority nor W. 's aunt , both of whom had parental responsibilities , could give consent to treatment which would be effective in the face of W. 's refusal of consent . |
| 14 | On recruitment to the second study 86 subjects , some of whom had symptomatic infections , rated their mood and performed 10 minute versions of the simple reaction time task and serial response task . |
| 15 | Those people who learned before the age of 20 years , the majority of whom had deaf parents ( some had deaf siblings ) , are able to translate effectively just under 60 per cent of the information on average . |
| 16 | The results of this ‘ biochemical modulation ’ were reported in 1986 in a study of 100 patients — 59 of whom responded and 12 of whom had complete remissions . |
| 17 | There are many young men who will mourn her departure from the ranks of the available , ah ( sigh ) , some of whom had fond memories of her , others , merely hopes . |
| 18 | No difference in the platelet-aggregate ratio was found between a group of 15 diabetics diagnosed after the age of 30 years ( six treated with insulin ) , some of whom had vascular complications compared to age- and sex-matched controls . |
| 19 | It referred to his close friendships with prominent Jewish businessmen , some of whom had commercial links with iron curtain countries . |
| 20 | These were military followers apparently of considerable social status and influence , though probably to be distinguished from the greatest magnates of the realm , many of whom had military followings of their own , and might be expected to fight for the king both inside and outside his kingdom . |
| 21 | In the 19 patients who were siblings of victims of sudden infant death syndrome , a diagnosis of suffocation was made in five , all of whom had recurrent events . |
| 22 | There were seven patients over the age of 60 who have had a restorative proctocolectomy , one of whom had longstanding polyps and high grade dysplasia ; the rest had ulcerative colitis . |
| 23 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |
| 24 | But in this , which he achieved by bold leaps and chromaticisms of melody and harmony , he was far surpassed by Saracini and Belli ( neither of whom composed polyphonic madrigals ) whose shock effects are comparable with Gesualdo 's of the same period ( see p. 267 ) , as in this passage from Belli 's ‘ Ardo ma non ardi ’ from his Libro dell' arie a I e 2 V. per sonarsi con il chitarrone ( Florence , 1616 ) : or the opening of Saracini 's ‘ Tu parti ’ from his sixth book of Musiche ( Venice , 1624 ) . |
| 25 | Our branch has just short of 100 members all of whom received 2 books of lottery tickets to sell by the end of July . |
| 26 | Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services . |
| 27 | This opposition — a minority , but a significant one — cohered around disaffected Liberal cooperators , some of whom occupied influential positions in the society and were active in the Municipal Alliance . |
| 28 | GM has reduced its financial exposure in Brazil , but it has not reduced its long-term commitment : the continuing success of its assembly plants there depend crucially on the quality and reliability of its local suppliers , all of whom need continuing sources of assistance to upgrade their capabilities as technologies and competitive standards shift . |
| 29 | Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count . |
| 30 | Like Blacks , women are seen , not as individuals , but members of a group , all of whom share certain characteristics . |