Example sentences of "of these [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence of good microbiological research emanating from Russia and Poland , but even if the communist countries had accurate figures on disease prevalence they might feel that publication of these would reflect badly on their political systems . |
| 2 | As wages declined , less money was available for purchasing inessential goods , so the prices of these would rise less steeply . |
| 3 | In order to define completely where you are right now you would need to use four mathematical coordinates , not three , and each of these would have exactly the same status as the rest . |
| 4 | In contrast , private sector development was geared to over spill residents from Tyneside and the implicit assumption ( and certainly reality ) was that most of these would commute back to the conurbation for work . |
| 5 | Although many patients are prescribed psychotropic medication , only a small proportion of these will go on to take an overdose . |
| 6 | A selection of these will flash up on screen during the half-hour programme . |
| 7 | The majority of these will get over this , although remaining a risk to those people with whom they come into contact . |
| 8 | The host species on the other hand could survive being parasitised since only a small proportion suffer the attentions of the cuckoo , and most of these will breed again to produce their own offspring . |
| 9 | Analysis of these will establish exactly which types of people were affected worst : whether they were male or female , young or old . |
| 10 | We shall regard as non-idiomatic ( or semantically transparent ) any expression which is divisible into semantic constituents , even if one or more of these should turn out on further analysis to be idioms . |
| 11 | I needed to remember that sea water is corrosive to a wide range of metals and the effects of corrosion on many of these can prove very toxic in a marine aquarium . |
| 12 | The curtains at either end of the bed each has an embroidered design of a cherubic figure holding a golden trumpet ; each of these can fire off one Wind Blast spell per round . |
| 13 | Cross-relating each activity from the model to the existing functions indicated that a number of these could remain virtually unchanged , in particular those concerned with organising academic resources and delivering courses . |