Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [modal v] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But then she added : ‘ They 're all very plain and I reckon that some of them must be over 60 ! ’ |
| 32 | Some of them must be near half your age . |
| 33 | All of them should be easily obtainable from good garden centres . |
| 34 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
| 35 | Half of them could be really rich and just do n't think |
| 36 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 37 | Some of these exercises are difficult to achieve and as you look at them , some of them could be way beyond your grasp — for the moment . |
| 38 | They 're due to stay in Split until April , and though each is due 15 days ' leave back in England between now and then , almost all of them will be away for Christmas . |
| 39 | Many of them will be already known as are almost all texts . |
| 40 | Some of them will be easily achievable , e.g. finish the ironing by lunchtime , but some will be more difficult , e.g. finish the five-mile fun run ! |
| 41 | A lively radio station has a variety of on-air personalities , and not all of them will be as devoted to music as others . |
| 42 | Given the number of left journals that declined to review Distant Voices , Still Lives , my summary of them will be all too brief . |
| 43 | Some of them will be further reunited when the Barbarians round off the All Blacks ' tour at Twickenham on 25 November . |
| 44 | They are there to make your Cosmos Holiday booking easy and most of them will be directly connected to our computer via our Viewdata system and therefore have access to all the latest information , prices and holiday offers at the touch of a button . |
| 45 | Erm , that neither of them can be here , they 're both attending the same meeting , 'cos I think it 's going to slow down progress , if that 's the case . |
| 46 | Before any of them can be significantly claimed to be logical as well as grammatical subjects , and treated as denoting certain objects that exist in their own right rather than merely describing attributes of such objects , or representing something purely fictional , certain additional conditions must be fulfilled . |
| 47 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 48 | It is a consequence of this view that if two things are related to each other in any way , then neither of them , strictly , can be said to be ontologically independent of the other , for in such a case neither of them can be fully described without presupposing the existence of both . |
| 49 | " Getting rid of them can be quite expensive too . " |
| 50 | After a summer like this , I believe those subtle , tropical-style patterns of yours could be just what we need . |
| 51 | ‘ If you ask me , that Jake of yours must be totally blind , not to say crazy . |
| 52 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 53 | The SNC , of which Sihanouk would be the de facto chair , would in effect act as a " super-government " , above the SOC and NGC , neither of which would be immediately dismantled . |
| 54 | The problem is exacerbated by the fact that consumers pay only about 15% of the world price , due to huge government subsidies , the reduction of which would be politically delicate . |
| 55 | ‘ It would be crazy to reject a treaty which is positively beneficial — and one the rejection of which would be so damaging . ’ |
| 56 | By comparison , batching and sorting the enquiries would lead to 126 head movements , most of which would be an absolute minimum of 10 ms and none of which would be much longer than 15 ms . |
| 57 | The road cuttings along Highway 70 in Arizona ( the " main road of America " , joining Chicago and Los Angeles ) show red and green marls and thin sandstones with layers of gypsum , all of which would be perfectly at home along the banks of the River Severn ( plate 1.6 ) . |
| 58 | A good hunch is heuristic , productive of preliminary explanatory propositions and capable of analysis into a priori axioms that can be reformulated into hypotheses , some of which may be practically testable . |
| 59 | Indeed , multiproduct companies will normally have a variety of means open to them for breaking even on their operation , some of which may be approximately equally efficient , so that governmental intervention to choose one amongst them , something facilitated by state ownership , is not necessarily inefficient . |
| 60 | It is also important that national authorities administer Community rules in a coherent fashion and that companies are aware of their Community rights , some of which may be newly acquired , to ensure that they benefit fully from them . |