Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If enough of her colleagues vote in favour , she and hundreds like her will soon become vicars after all . |
| 2 | Friends of the Earth proposes a dozen green taxes , three of which would directly affect the motorist , It calls for abolition of road tax , but for the price of petrol to be raised to what it was in real terms in 1975 . |
| 3 | Indeed , all three of them would probably have willingly paid to have been part of the occasion which is now firmly entrenched in French sporting history . |
| 4 | Three of them would obviously be Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | The lights in the Worm became brighter and all three of them could now see more clearly . |
| 6 | I for one will certainly be registering a copy for my personal use at home . |
| 7 | I for one could never penetrate his thoughts , could never really feel comfortable with him . |
| 8 | I do n't think any of the five of us could ever remember Laura being cross — not that she had need to be , we were good and reasonable children , always having been treated reasonably , but she had her moments of trial . |
| 9 | Sandys accepted the need for carriers in limited war and enshrined the continued existence off our carrier groups , one of which would normally be deployed East of Suez , in his 1957 White Paper . |
| 10 | This perspective is here distilled out of the similarities between two major studies of consumption , one of which may almost be credited with initiating such studies , while the other provides the most extensive contemporary survey . |
| 11 | In the previous section we have seen how public figures often write about themselves for a variety of reasons — one of which could just be straight-forward self-centredness . |
| 12 | Plans for the Herbarium/Library extension envisage one additional staff workstation for circulation , and two additional OPAC stations , one of which will also run the Library 's CD-ROM drive . |
| 13 | The company expects to sell via OEMs ( one of which will obviously be IBM ) , VARs and integrators as well as direct . |
| 14 | One of them might never walk at all . |
| 15 | It would be an excellent idea to provide your Porcupine Puffer with a separate tank , but do n't introduce another into the same tank because they just do n't get on and one of them would almost certainly die . |
| 16 | German agents would escort his baggage through all security checks , and one of them would personally place the baggage on the plane . ’ |
| 17 | He introduced them to Mobuto then went on to explain that one of them would always be at his side for the duration of his visit . |
| 18 | One of them would undoubtedly be Hunt 's physical condition . |
| 19 | Why , lo and behold , one of them would solemnly type ‘ Methinks it is like a weasel , and another would almost certainly type ‘ I think therefore I am ’ . |
| 20 | Incredulity at my own stupidity almost made me laugh , for Nour would , without a shadow of a doubt , have many , many wives and not one of them would ever be happy . |
| 21 | As their mother lies dozing , one of them will suddenly pounce on the black tassel at the end of her twitching tail , using the same kind of actions it will need to pounce on a small prey animal in years to come . |
| 22 | Seven years … but still every now and then one of them will suddenly run out into the street screaming . ’ |
| 23 | There is a mystic , psychic quality about them that is pleasantly disturbing , and often one of them will gently take my hand and gaze steadily into my eyes as if willing me better and I feel sort of honoured to be welcomed into their society . |
| 24 | But I do n't know , I 've three of them , and I do n't think one of them will ever run this place for me . ’ |
| 25 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 26 | Any one of them could still deny Opel the title but it wo n't happen — not if Ulster engineering skills prove to be the deciding factor . |
| 27 | In its place though , one of you could soon be the proud owner of an Action Replay cartridge . |
| 28 | It eventually reached the point when one of us would simply talk to him about anything and everything until he 'd break and say , ‘ OK , you want me to talk . |
| 29 | And then , because we admired his beauty so much , someone would often say of him , as we were sizing up and judging the night 's array of talent , one of us would quietly say , The Price Is Right . |
| 30 | I 'm quite convinced that society could be run without money and every one of us would actually become far better off — not economically , of course , but emotionally and culturally . |