Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors , some of whom might have earlier come out with a fortune were suddenly losing . |
| 2 | from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period . |
| 3 | In its standard form , the Prisoners ' Dilemma is a game played by two players , each of whom may choose either to cooperate , C , or defect , D , in any one encounter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 6 | This unquestioning acceptance of the established conditions of work is a form of indoctrination ( even if unintended ) of the students , many of whom will end up in jobs where wages are variable and income uncertain . |
| 7 | Following its retreat from direct sales in Europe back in August ( UX No 396 ) , Solbourne is in the process of appointing European country managers who will report direct to Neil McNeill , director of international operations and a European manager who has yet to be appointed , both of whom will operate out of Longmont . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh look it 's one of these that 's nice because you can just sort of nothing can come in behind you and that sort of thing . |
| 10 | If there 's insufficient space for the army of fans , many of them might end up on the beaches , which the Italian police have expressly forbidden . |
| 11 | It probably wo n't get us very far , but you never know , one of them might come up with something . ’ |
| 12 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 13 | Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them . |
| 14 | Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees . |
| 15 | Philip hoped he 'd find his dog and the pair of them would clear off . |
| 16 | A gang of them would meet there , graduating from Meccano and toy farms to risqué games of Dare , illicit cigarettes , speculation about sex . |
| 17 | The drinks machine was in the passage leading to the library and sometimes one or other of them would sit down for a break , and she found it a relief to talk to a real human being . |
| 18 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 19 | response at our end , and as as I said , I know that person , three particular incidences which were good incidences to report two of them would 've certainly resulted in arrests , and they got an absolutely negative reply . |
| 20 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh man , I 've had these pants on so long , there are potatoes growing in them , ’ one of them would start off . |
| 24 | Some of them would suckle forever if they could . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Then suddenly one of them would call out ‘ Aye , aye , lads … here 's the cops ’ and they 'd all move . |
| 27 | Sometimes one of them would call out , softly , and then they 'd all listen . |
| 28 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 29 | Did she say most of them would come down ? |
| 30 | None of them would look out of place in the local supermarket or disco . |