Example sentences of "some of [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising that many people , some of whom may have seen the equity in their homes rise tenfold , should decide to spend more . |
| 2 | Performing King Lear in the round meant making eye-contact with members of the audience , some of whom may have really been embroiled in mayhem the actors were merely playing at . |
| 3 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 4 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 5 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 6 | The January 1983 Medau News would contain an article explaining the new system to all and a letter would be sent to class secretaries ( some of whom may have changed since Sept. ) asking again for their help in encouraging membership amongst class members . |
| 7 | They made extensive use of sub-contractors , some of whom might agree to bring as few as a dozen men-at-arms and archers to the force . |
| 8 | That meant a reservoir of skilled engineers , some of whom might have accumulated 15 or more years ' experience before being made redundant or taking early retirement . |
| 9 | Investors , some of whom might have earlier come out with a fortune were suddenly losing . |
| 10 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 11 | In so far as the general picture is intelligible , it appears that we are dealing with a group of warlords in the north , some of whom could claim to be upholding Roman jurisdiction . |
| 12 | The true type , as personified by my own and other mothers , was destined to bear child after child , some of whom could miscarry , some of whom could die , and all of whom were a perpetual source of worry and expense . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | about , so I 'm sure some of them might want washing |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm almost sure they said Brittany , although some of them might have gone to Bordeaux . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | no , well , some of them might have been , do n't do squabble about that |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some of them would suckle forever if they could . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |