Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The family in the song is the circle of friends , where it almost seemed , because we were so identical , that for anybody to make any progress in life , we 'd have to split up . |
2 | Because they phone me up and said , Look we needed another half a page in this for us to get another hundred pound . |
3 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
4 | Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for solitary stones with its 85% effectiveness at one year , two sessions of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy , 15% failures and an estimated 30% recurrences in the long term ( assuming that only half of them become symptomatic and therefore need treatment ) will cost US$1970 ( £1150 ) . |
5 | But it is equally likely to be either one of the pair , and if you average over lots of sperms ( or eggs ) it turns out that half of them contain one allele , half the other . |
6 | Mozart 's Quartet in A Flat , and half of them fell asleep . |
7 | By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ . |
8 | Fewer than half of them wanted further education , while 29 per cent wanted training for skilled work , 9 per cent wanted vocational training and 15 per cent aspired to higher education . |
9 | Professionals in academic institutions often have an administrative and managerial role within the institution ; and over 80% of managers have had a college education , half of them studying liberal arts subjects . |
10 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
11 | Ha about half of you thought that was a good thing and about half of you thought it was a bad thing . |
12 | mine , half of mine cut half off people 's conversation |
13 | 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 . |
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 | It referred to his close friendships with prominent Jewish businessmen , some of whom had commercial links with iron curtain countries . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Whereas academic philosophers with a vested interest in preserving the Aristotelian world-picture were united against Galileo , there was no such unanimity among his clerical contacts , some of whom gave constructive advice . |
20 | Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently . |
21 | Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count . |
22 | The expansion of the state in the economy has led to an increase in the number of state employees , some of whom direct vast industrial complexes . |
23 | Added to the Bonapartes were the Murats , the Tascher de la Pagerie ( relatives of Josephine ) and descendants of the ‘ Italian marriages ’ — the Primolis and the Bacciochis , some of whom held honorary positions at Court , Count Bacciochi , for example , being a Court Chamberlain . |
24 | At least some of them saw that . |
25 | When the police from the house rushed down and saw them riding away , they say some of them wore military uniform . ’ |
26 | Some of them got religious or went barmy I seem to remember , but the point is they were all different when they came back . |
27 | Artists , too , have changed , some of them choosing new areas to investigate . |
28 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
29 | It 's not a case of being paranoid , it 's a case of seeking fairness for all the school children , and then some of them receiving disproportional , you know higher , er amounts of money , then that must be seen to be unfair , and I 'm certainly well supported in that . |
30 | Some of them contain printed reports , some sheaves of handwritten minutes held together by Treasury tags . |