Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This for me is Sibelius . |
| 2 | I 've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different . |
| 3 | Half of them are Morton , half of them are English and the other half are Irish , so erm we have our own little family little battles as to who 's supporting who in football matches and stuff like that . |
| 4 | For instance you 've got a , you 've got er staff here , half of them are women , would that be the same situation in schools in there ? |
| 5 | Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives . |
| 6 | Half of them are spies and secret policemen . |
| 7 | Every adult has a vote but only half of them are ratepayers . |
| 8 | ‘ Half of them are KGB , and I would n't trust the other half , ’ he said bitterly . |
| 9 | That 2,710 starts for apprentices must be set against an industry which employs nearly 1.8 million people , half of whom are employees and the other half self-employed . |
| 10 | But the triumph was watched by only 5,000 , half of whom were soldiers in uniform . |
| 11 | None of these Jews — half of whom were women and children — had any intention of revisiting Germany in the near future . |
| 12 | Over 1,000,000 other expatriates lived in Kuwait , more than half of whom were south or south-east Asian . |
| 13 | Aegon will pay £200m — about half of which is good-will — which will be injected into the with-profits fund for the benefit of the current and future policyholders invested into that fund . |
| 14 | The average length of each item is over 5 minutes , half of which is actuality . |
| 15 | Chesterton said that ‘ tradition is the democracy of the dead ’ but in France ‘ the dead ’ get a seat in parliament , together with three secretaries each , interest-free loans , subsidised foreign travel and an income of about £40,000 , half of which is tax free . |
| 16 | The one-year-old HUUG claims more than fifty members , half of which are user organisations . |
| 17 | The A4 contains sixty effects programs , half of which are factory presets and the remaining thirty being user-programmable . |
| 18 | The instructions comprised of two A5 sheets of paper , half of which were diagrams . |
| 19 | and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round |
| 20 | Half of it 's fiction . |
| 21 | I 'd swear half of it was Lynches , Connallys , Egans , Kellys … etc . |
| 22 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
| 23 | We are concerned with people , some of whom are men and some women , and the cognitive differences between them are not easily traced to their gender . |
| 24 | Among the better-paid men were employees of the cathedral , some of whom were clerks in minor orders . |
| 25 | Franca explained that Alison had been quite overcome by seeing the familiar school scene and the dancer , some of whom were professionals whom she knew . |
| 26 | His funeral , according to Calamy , ‘ was attended by a most numerous company of all ranks and qualities , and especially of ministers , some of whom were Conformists , who thought fit to pay him that last office of respect . ’ |
| 27 | Soon after 1614 Evesham returned to London and began to produce a range of works for sites across the country and for various patrons , some of whom were papists . |
| 28 | describe ‘ reasonable ’ white teenagers , some of whom were sympathizers of the National Front , as distancing themselves from the ‘ skinheads ’ or ‘ lunatics ’ . |
| 29 | These particles , this particular matter is generally given the sort of generic term seston some of those particles are mineral particles some of them are colloidal aggregates as the iron tends , iron , iron , ions tend to come together to form colloids in solution and some of them are particles of biological origin . |
| 30 | Do you think some of them are ones which genuinely religious people would not adopt ? |