Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 2 | During a visit to Portugal on Jan. 14 Levi held talks with the Foreign Ministers of Angola and Cape Verde , both of whom announced that diplomatic relations with Israel would soon be established . |
| 3 | This echoed the view of a number of solicitor respondents , one of whom argued that sole practitioners should be required to change their accountant annually ; whilst others said sole practitioners should be prohibited from instructioning sole practitioner accountants . |
| 4 | All of them knew that this could mean only one thing : Aenarion was going to draw the Sword of Khaine , take up the Widowmaker , to wield the ultimate and deadly weapon . |
| 5 | Some 42% of them thought that economic liberals were best at handling the economy ( against 18% who thought social democrats were ) ; and 50% thought unions should be independent of social-democratic parties ( though 39% thought the opposite ) . |
| 6 | Thus , when Josias Nichols asked the parishioners of one parish in Kent ‘ whether it were possible for a man to live so uprightly that by well doing he might win heaven ’ , virtually all of them thought that this was so . |
| 7 | Seventy three per cent of them believe that inadequate resources are a key issue facing higher education , according to the survey , which was conducted by Gallup and commissioned by NATFHE , the university and college lecturers ' union . |
| 8 | Herman refers to 14 such studies , but notes that the results are inconsistent , with nine of them finding that owner-controlled companies performed better than those subject to management control . |
| 9 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 10 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 11 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 12 | At this or any stage it may be that one or both of them finds that initial attraction is not supported by later experience . |
| 13 | All of which shows that one man 's staple is another man 's delicatessen or , rather , that the necessities of one generation can become the luxuries of the next . |
| 14 | Many of you know that free range chickens are a very important part of Crediton . |
| 15 | However , 44% of you feel that these reports should leave the gory details out and 39% feel they encourage copycat crimes . |
| 16 | And some of you some of you did that this morning although you may not have realised it er but you said well well like Rob said and er just just making people feel part of it by by using their names and that 's exactly the purpose of having these plaques in front and why I asked you to use erm to put your name on them is so that we can do that . |
| 17 | Therefore , the existence of atrocity stories on subjects such as this does not of itself reveal that this work is emotionally undemanding ; simply that this is one impression that the story is intended to convey . |
| 18 | But a part of her knew that that was not the way . |
| 19 | Of course , she knew it would be foolish of her to imagine that this benign state of affairs could possibly last . |
| 20 | Part of him accepted that one day she would get married — and not to him . |
| 21 | An Arsenal friend of mine admitted that all he wanted at the moment was for Leeds to catch Scum . |
| 22 | It was impossible to avoid each other in such a hectic department , but fortunately the very business of it meant that any and every contact was necessarily fairly brisk . |
| 23 | I was too unsure of myself to believe that this could be possible . |
| 24 | Parts of us die that other parts may live . |
| 25 | Some of us felt that more attention could be paid to this aspect , particularly in order to obtain a greater economic return for the heavy expenditure on government assistance . |
| 26 | A minority of us thought that some schools should be integrated as sixth-form colleges , or centres , to which entry might properly be academically competitive . |
| 27 | Indeed , many of us thought that more emphasis should be placed on the cooperative use of the land resources of the crofts , perhaps on the lines of the ‘ joint managements ’ developed in southern Italy by the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno . |
| 28 | Something in all three of us knew that this was a one-off , that this was a first and last summer , because there would n't be another time when Gillian and I were falling in love as opposed to just being in love or whatever . |
| 29 | These proposals had come forward without any consultation with any health minister , and indeed without any of us knowing that such a study was taking place . |
| 30 | Many of us believe that diplomatic relations with Iran should be broken off . |