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Example sentences of "of [pron] [be] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1	To friends , though , Law appeared very differently , and the people who became his friends provide testament to the fact ; he was very close with both Max Aitken and David Lloyd George , neither of whom was very likely to enjoy the company of a gloomy boor .
2	Daddy 's just as bad spends half his life visiting patients , most of whom were never able to pay their bills .
3	In fact , many of them are even happy to change the nappies and help out at feeding time .
4	Most of them are not able to manage the walk of over a mile to the A6 to catch the Lancaster- Preston bus
5	Most of them are therefore likely to give their assent .
6	Some of them are quite hard to read .
7	So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious .
8	Of course people are talking pretty big at the moment but half of them are as ready to drop as I am . ’
9	Dispositions mortis causa are afflicted by one great difficulty in interpretation : the testator who disposed of them is not available to advise on their meaning .
10	But erm I du n no there 's some of them were n't prepared to carry on with it , you know these youngsters , there was a lot of 'em they would n't , anyway everybody 's not hundred percent you 're not going to get anywhere with anything .
11	Most of them were pretty determined to have a totally straight image outside the ghetto .
12	All the other girls had at least a best dress , and some of them were burningly anxious to display clothes bought by extravagant parents especially for the occasion .
13	He expounded to his clergy advanced books of original thinking which most of them were never likely to see or read .
14	Both of them were quite happy to push her out in her pram and she was often the centre of attention when their friends visited .
15	Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament .
16	None of them was more enthusiastic to turn on the heat and get the thing over than General Douglas MacArthur , the ‘ United Nations ’ commander in Korea , who was at pains to point out he had ‘ no direct connection with the United Nations whatsoever ’ .
17	‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’
18	And , as it happens , the first two of yours are quite easy to solve .
19	In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) .
20	To masters , he writes : ‘ If any of you are not able to instruct them , be deeply humbled presently , and get others to instruct them . ’
21	And a fifty pound fee for the privilege of taking photographs of him was hardly likely to win him friends among the assembled media .
22	What is really going on is they are rigging a system to hide that kind of it 's clearly anonymous to marry a woman who 's your grandmother .
23	terms of what is most likely to happen on the basis of the information available .
24	I would like to say in general Mr I think that as a Committee we should welcome this report which does , it really does er has done a very thorough job and ha a a and provides us now with a s understandable framework and and time scale work when you 've got target and when brought forward or shown to any member of the complex that that erm I think provisionally with the backlog of what is now ready to tackle the result onto our and commissioner is grant er , er grant , erm there will be , it will be like an enormous benefits not just in those areas that John has taken us to but in general atmosphere which kind of be very tense and competition and I think we 'll be , be seeing the action in this token er within it will be er target time , erm real pro real progress will be this I think the feeling of that will going , come by will , will , will be a lot of ruling er in this area and maybe even start to er leave the question from er as a result and the signal to the users of our serv , of the services and erm would go out of here in a planned way and in answer to er fairly speedily and you know what or reduce the erm the aggro .
25	Most of us are too polite to object , but imagine the embarrassment we could be saved if the authorities allowed people to ride in shirtsleeves in hot weather .
26	Many of us are too polite to resist their pressure and we end up sacrificing our time to their sales pitch .
27	You know , probably some of us are too old to accept this , but er , the younger people
28	We thought liberation would lead to more freedom but many of us are too scared to go out alone in daylight let alone after dark these days .
29	Some of us are very keen to raise our outward show of status .
30	Chair , erm on that , if that could be arranged in two or three months time , perhaps we can see how the Charter of Commerce is working out , because I think many of us are very interested to see how it is working out , we could erm discuss with somebody who 's in bed-and-breakfast , who could then erm tell us how the Charter of Commerce is working .