Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ardneavie House is big — at least ten bedrooms — and Lucinda and Jane and me are on the top floor with the boat's-crew Wrens .
2 The kind of satisfaction which can be anxiety-free is that in which my own creative powers and understanding of the world around me are at a maximum and this is satisfaction which the individual can only achieve as part of a community of persons directed at these ends .
3 And I 'm just want to draw your attention very quickly and I will emphasize that a lot of the information you 're hearing from me are in a brief sense , will be more than adequately covered when
4 She lived there with her family , some of whom are on a skiing holiday in Europe .
5 The result , however , is not in doubt ; the British housing system is becoming increasingly polarized between a majority of secure owner-occupiers who have made substantial capital gains and are receiving large continuing subsidies , and the rest ( this includes the group which space has precluded discussing : the marginal group of owner-occupiers , many of whom are in a more precarious position than local authority tenants , and whose problems will become much more prominent in years to come ( Karn , Kemeny , and Williams , 1985 ; Sullivan and Murphy , 1987 ) ) .
6 The first match at the Hillsborough Centre , Sheffield , is against the Lancashire County U18s , several of whom are in the England squad .
7 Prosecutor Dorian Lovell-Pank told the court : ‘ A group of people , not all of whom are in the dock , were engaged in the wholesale theft or handling of a vast amount of property .
8 Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship .
9 I think that if you 've only got twenty spaces then that 's difficult because we 've got a hundred and something members most of whom are in the central belt
10 What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens .
11 Some of them are on a bigger level .
12 As we have seen in Chapter 3 marginal farmers engaged in sheep and beef cattle rearing dominate the upland areas , and many of them are on a ‘ deferred death sentence ’ .
13 How many of them are on the drier river terraces ?
14 ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’
15 I think every , all the benefits should definitely be means tested , I know that most of them are to a degree .
16 There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit .
17 Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan .
18 Many of them are of a Victorian standard and need considerable investment .
19 ‘ Tie-in books ’ are a major part of any best-seller list , but not all of them are of the semi-literate kind often found there and described earlier .
20 The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these .
21 Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic .
22 Erm many of my officers erm indeed all of them are of the same mind .
23 Many factors affect the usage , and not all of them are under the control of the textile works .
24 ‘ A lot of them are under the water and you ca n't see them .
25 Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide , ’ it says .
26 And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks .
27 There 's no doubt if you analyze a lot of dreams , that an awful lot of them are as a matter of fact .
28 Most of them are in a ruinous state with their upper storeys missing shattered by earthquake , war , neglect .
29 Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action .
30 It is disturbing to think any of them are in a position of influence in the education field since to a man they seem only capable of talking in cliche-riddled sentences or civil service speak .
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