Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There will be increasing resentment of the greed of many top tennis players , some of whom will do immense damage to the game they adorn . |
| 32 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 33 | It is of course not easy and there are few ready-made answers for a church group trying to provide bereavement care for all those with whom they come in contact , some of whom will have family members who have committed suicide . |
| 34 | Over one-third of single mothers with dependent children were cohabiting in 1985 , and many divorced and separated women , some of whom will have children , constitute a significant number of additional step-families , in fact , if not in law ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 35 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | about , so I 'm sure some of them might want washing |
| 38 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 39 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 40 | However , some of them might have had it in them to refrain from congratulating the Government on delivering the two worst recessions of the post-war years . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm almost sure they said Brittany , although some of them might have gone to Bordeaux . |
| 42 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 43 | no , well , some of them might have been , do n't do squabble about that |
| 44 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 45 | Right okay so that 's why it 's important that we get I mean if we just got one neutron out then theoretically you could sustain a chain reaction , but in practice it would be absorbed , it would n't they would n't all hit , some of them would miss , but as long as we can get on average about one , of those three , hitting another one , we can keep it going , and we get this chain reaction going and th the heat really builds up then , and that 's what they use in a a nuclear reaction reactor . |
| 46 | Smeed went on to argue that if drivers were charged for the delays they impose on one another , some of them would travel at different times , by different means or to different places — and that time wasted by everyone in jams would be reduced . |
| 47 | Some of them would suckle forever if they could . ’ |
| 48 | My wife kept an open door for them and any time Well at the weekend they 'd Some of them would drop in , you know , for a chat , aye . |
| 49 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 50 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 51 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 52 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 53 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 54 | Tapes and yards of lace and and er sometimes some of them would have even pieces of cloth for an apron , if you know what an apron is . |
| 55 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 56 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 57 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 58 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 59 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 60 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |