Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the papers are now torn and others have been heavily creased because they have been re-read and re-folded so many times over the past 41 years . |
| 2 | The cost of the papers is then recovered from the various departments of the Council and the Joint Boards who participate in these arrangements . |
| 3 | None of the papers was well informed , unable , it would seem , to find among their staff any ffeatherstonehaugh members . |
| 4 | And some of the games are very slow . |
| 5 | The intention of the assailants is obviously to create an ‘ ethnically clean ’ Serbian corridor in eastern Bosnia as a prelude to partitioning the state . |
| 6 | The mending and making good , the painting , papering and patching of Melin Cottage each winter were jobs I approached with diminishing verve also , and the climbing in connection with the weeding and maintenance of the terraces were frankly becoming an enervating bore . |
| 7 | Again the wording of the stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Matthew 3:7–10 ; Luke 3:7–9 ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , many of the stories were already in existence in an oral form . |
| 9 | Some of the stories were pretty fanciful and involved helicopters and mercenaries but at least one claimed that Blake would be helped to escape by another prisoner and once free would go to East Germany and thence to Russia . |
| 10 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 11 | Most of the projects were also trying to have knock on effects , not just for their client group but for services which would benefit other people . |
| 12 | A separate question specifically addressing the knowledge elements of the projects was also developed . |
| 13 | Some of the trends are already there , others need to be encouraged . |
| 14 | Suddenly I noticed that one of the giants was very close to me . |
| 15 | The revenue on the other hand contend that the ‘ expense incurred in or in connection with ’ the provision of education for the children of the taxpayers was exactly the same as the expense incurred in or in connection with the education of all other pupils at the school and accordingly the expense of educating any one child is a proportionate part of the cost of running the whole school . |
| 16 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 17 | He also introduced Corbett who felt many of the lords were too busy to acknowledge him though he noticed Bishop Wishart of Glasgow , a wizened little man with a face as brown and as wrinkled as a shrivelled walnut , studying him intently beneath heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 18 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 19 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |
| 20 | The idea that the Renaissance could be named , classified , described , and interpreted so that it was rendered readily comprehensible within some generalised scheme of the humanities was no longer a clearly defined process . |
| 21 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |
| 22 | Several more of the problems are clearly to do with your current storage or methods of storage . |
| 23 | My judgement is that many of the problems are grossly exaggerated . ’ |
| 24 | Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution . |
| 25 | One of the problems is sometimes the balloons become infected , because it 's hard to keep little hands away from them , but I 'm hopeful this year we may be able to get a good result . |
| 26 | Things were beginning to change , however , it was stated , but whether the changes were happening fast enough or on a scale appropriate to the scale of the problems was still not clear . |
| 27 | One of the problems was really was . |
| 28 | Four of the others are critically ill , two are in a serious condition and four are stable at Weymouth General Hospital , Dorset . |
| 29 | But some of the others are less familiar . |
| 30 | Most of the others are still unopened . |