Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present .
3 Politically reliable officers : 97 per cent of whom are Party members in the GDR , 85 per cent in Poland .
4 There are 118 members of the Red Cross in Darlington , 20 of whom are youth members , who are kept constantly busy .
5 Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme .
6 Under them are battlefield commanders , most of whom operate under code names such as Korn , Siab , Chan , Sok .
7 Some of them are Suardale men — and Drynoch men ! ’
8 However , I regret that it does not appear that she is to address the Council of Europe , of which the hon. Gentleman and I are Assembly members .
9 This problem must also have been worse for some people because , even though I 'm only 16 , I am 5ft 8ins .
10 I am 5′ 1″ tall and a size 10–12 , but only take size 2½–3 in shoes .
11 I am 6ft 2ins and stand much further back than his recommended distance of five feet , and from approximately 1- to 12 feet do not ‘ require an exaggerated upward movement of the head ’ .
12 a lot of yours are sweat shirts
13 Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’
14 Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot .
15 A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war .
16 During the later part of my career , I was University Estates Officer to the new University of York from the university 's inception in ninety sixty three until my retirement .
17 All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds .
18 Those small nations of roughly comparable size to Scotland , which are member states of the EC , apparently have little room for manoeuvre and could never hope to have anything like the power wielded by the UK .
19 Students might be required , for example , to sketch the layout of the kitchen , noting the position of fire-extinguishers and emergency exits , they might be asked to note the pattern of use in the restaurant ; which are peak hours ; what sort of music is played ; what arrangements are made for smokers ; what is the cleaning cycle for bedrooms and corridors ; what sort of internal accounting system is used — the list could go on , but all are investigative tasks which need the help of hotel staff and which , if properly recorded can be assessed .
20 Er , associated with that are certain behaviours , typically vomiting , laxative abuse , erm , use of diuretics which are water tablets or excessive exercising .
21 ( a ) One solution ( which assumes such destinations are sparsely scattered within the instruction stream ) is to force instructions which are jump destinations to be on word boundaries ; this is the method used on the CDC 6600 computer .
22 This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected .
23 The one-year-old HUUG claims more than fifty members , half of which are user organisations .
24 For your interest , these privileges are those which are default privileges for the LIFESPAN Manager , ie. SYSNAM , DETACH , TMPMBX , WORLD , NETMBX , LOG_IO and SYSPRV .
25 Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove .
26 South African permission is also required to land on the islands which are nature reserves .
27 Once the basic idea for the advertisement has been agreed , it falls to the art director , in consultation with the writer , to bring it to life visually in commercials , advertisements , and printed material such as brochures and leaflets , and point of sale — material , which are show cards and other items for display actually in the stores .
28 This starts to unravel the blue book , hopefully , and identifies those which refer to the quality , whi which are quality procedures , and those which are the other procedures .
29 The set consists of one each of a Handy Rasp , a Round File , a Block Plane , a File Plane , and a Half Round Blade , and a Flat Blade , which are replacement blades for the Block Plane .
30 The greatest collection of letters to have survived from post-Roman Gaul , however , is made up of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus , many of which are verse epistles .
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