Example sentences of "of [pers pn] have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads .
2 Many of them had blue lights on top .
3 There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year .
4 Most of them had similar extensions .
5 The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort .
6 Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another .
7 Prof Van Velzen 's team found earlier this year that of 34 victims of unexplained cot death , 70pc of them had underdeveloped kidneys .
8 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
9 Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from .
10 Well , not all of them had those things
11 I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries .
12 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
13 The great majority of mothers were not in paid work , hardly surprisingly since so many of them had large families of young children .
14 The claimants were nearly always women , and three out of four of them had dependent children .
15 Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition .
16 None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way .
17 It made the town far more interesting to both of them to have such insights .
18 Do they issue them , part of the reason that of them having higher wages is that part industrials are bias that they , they have a higher wages and they think they will have a stronger growth in the industrial sector
19 How many of them have wild-type eyes ( black ) and how many have pearl eyes ?
20 Several of them have effective systems of idea-handling .
21 And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them .
22 His ‘ toccatas ’ are essentially quasi-preludial and improvisatory affairs of passage-work but two of them have polyphonic sections .
23 A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch .
24 Most of them have six legs , and buzz .
25 They 're odd ; they have foibles ; they rob banks or steal cars or kill people , but otherwise most of them have normal lives . ’
26 Both of them have psychotic interludes , occurring after particularly stress-loaded incidents , both are in guilt-producing situations ( Lancelot doubly so , since he has inadvertently betrayed the woman he adulterously loves ) and both , in losing their reason , lose their humanity .
27 All of them have intact pouches and bowel frequency ranges from one to four per 24 hours .
28 In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on .
29 The number of people is , to an extent , a function of union rules , but some of them have real jobs to do .
30 The obsessive gardener hates his relations because two of them have criminal records .
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