Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But biologists can be much more specific than that about what would constitute being " good for something " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
| 6 | In his Directions for Taking up Plants and Shrubs and Conveying Them by Sea , John Fothergill suggested placing seeds among specimens in boxes , some of which might succeed if the plants failed . |
| 7 | Modules at this stage have minimal pre entry recommendations and offer opportunities to develop a wide range of skills , some of which may lead to vocational competence . |
| 8 | In the UK , in addition to unemployment benefits , an individual out of work may be eligible to receive other state benefits such as for dependent children ( child benefit , free school milk and meals , etc. ) , some of which may continue after re-employment . |
| 9 | Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs . |
| 10 | Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn . |
| 11 | A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result . |
| 12 | Studies of pronuclear division in fertilized eggs are useful for assessing the primary level of chromosome abnormalities , some of which may act as zygotic lethals or become disguised in subsequent cleavages . |
| 13 | It is unfortunately very easy sometimes to let the eyes wander — and the mind as well — if an elderly person is running the gamut of a whole list of troubles , some of which may seem more like minor irritations . |
| 14 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 15 | Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ . |
| 16 | Serial music may be written in various idioms , some of which may have virtually no melody at all . |
| 17 | They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten . |
| 18 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 19 | It is in this context relevant to mention briefly section 9 of the General Rate Act 1967 which provided that an amount paid in respect of rates ‘ and not recoverable apart from this section ’ could properly be refunded on five specified grounds , some of which would fall within the Woolwich principle . |
| 20 | Although Mrs Thatcher 's opposition will prevent the declaration having any legal force , the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , made it clear he would be coming forward with detailed proposals on a range of minimum social rights for workers in the 1992 single market over the next 12 months — some of which would have binding legal force throughout the Community . |
| 21 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
| 22 | The process of running a program means that it carries out the CPU instructions in the program file , some of which will involve telling the PC to look for certain data files on disk which it will use for its own ends . |
| 23 | In 1968 Brian MacArthur suggested in The Times that of the two major educational developments under the Wilson government since 1964 the movement towards a national system of comprehensive education had received most attention : ‘ yet the development of the polytechnics , some of which will start with around 5000 students , is potentially the more revolutionary ’ . |
| 24 | It may be that we need to experiment with permanence units , some of which will specialise in achieving permanence through the return to natural families , and others in achieving permanence by placement with new families , and also having units which combine the two functions . |
| 25 | As a temporary measure ( especially useful with burst lead pipe ) , there are resin filler products which can be applied to the pipe to stem the flow of water , some of which will withstand mains pressure almost immediately . |
| 26 | Similar ideas , some of which will come up rather frequently , can be removed by a preliminary screening , but there will still be a great deal to get through , so warn the judges in advance . |
| 27 | The Catalogue will , therefore , contain module descriptors , some of which will have identifier first digit 6 and others identifier first digit 7 . |
| 28 | Papers published in other journals which have no such limitation may contain many more references , some of which will have had considerable influence on the authors , and others whose influence is slight . |
| 29 | The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead . |
| 30 | PC Tools 8 is crammed with quality features , some of which could make MS-DOS go green with envy |