Одного из членов предложения

1. Getting into medical school involves convincing five different groups of people that you have what it takes to become a good doctor.

2. It is beguiling that the humble pen — one of the oldest tools of communication — has inspired what may prove to be the next leap forward in computer technology. Pen-based computers enable users to enter or manipulate data using an electronic pen, or stylus instead of a keyboard.

3. Month after month last year the money poured out of a small neighbourhood bank here in what its president depicted as a legitimate series of loans totalling $13 million. The only trouble, investigators have now found, is that the 128 people and businesses listed as loan recipients neither applied for nor received any of the money

4. A police traffic motorcyclist stopped a man he believed to be a disqualified driver in what was probably a stolen car. ("MS")

5. Younger Koreans worry about what they consider to be Korea's increasing dependence on Japanese capital, technology and industrial goods. ("Nsw.")

6. There were ten guards in what could only be described as paramilitary uniform belonging to no recognizable army. (R. Ludlum)

1. Both composers vastly increased the definition of what is a respectable piece of music nowadays. ("Nsw.")

8. Convoys of lorries laden with food donated by German families and charted by the Red Cross and other aid organizations are to set off before the weekend on the long road to Moscow and other Soviet

cities to relieve the threat of hunger in what the United Nations believe will be the severest winter since the war. ("G.")

9. For some time now UNESCO, the educational branch of the United Nations, has been protesting against what it sees as Western bias in international news. ("Nsw.")

10. Foreign investors are prohibited from buying more than 25 per cent of the stock of any U.S. airline or from having what in effect could be considered control over such carrier. ("IHT")

11. Over the course of the seven-year conflict in. Afghanistan, some 10,000 Soviet soldiers have been killed and 20,000 wounded and there is little doubt that Moscow is eager to extricate itself from what has clearly become a no-win military situation. ("Nsw.")

12. At dawn, I returned to what was once my house. All now a mass of ashes. ("RD")

13. Astronomers Bradford Smith of the University of Arizona and Richard Terrile of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory took stunning photographs of what might be planets forming around the star. ("Nsw.")

14. The veil, which shrouded her whole face, was too thick for me to see more than the glitter of bright eyes and the hazy outline of what might be a lovely face, but might also, unfortunately, be an equally unlovely one. (L. Carroll)

15. Ever since July 1, when President George Bush announced his intention to nominate U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, the judge's detractors and supporters have labored mightily to invest him with characteristics intended to advance their own political and ideological objectives. Much of what has been said about him, by those on both sides, has added little to what was already known when the Senate conformed Clarence Thomas less than two years ago to his current judicial appointment. ("IHT")

16. A judge complained yesterday he was not allowed to detain a schoolboy who carved his initial in another boy's back while torturing him. Judge Bruce Laughland told the Old Bailey: "Parliament has deprived the courts of any power of detention of a person of his age, or of what many people might think was any effective punishment." ("G.")

17. With what felt like a roar, but must really have been a pigsqueal, I leapt at the nearest boy and hit him squarely on the nose. (W. Golding)

28. Каузативные конструкции типа "to have/get smth done"

1. Italy's rap star Jovanotti had his fans worried recently, when he started to sing about the rain forest, the fight against drugs and the sorry state of Italian politics.

2. Lloyd George was believed to have had the beer deluded in pubs near centres of ammunition production during the first world war, in order to keep the wheels of the home front turning without a hiccup.

3. Mr. Herbane had got his face scratched and his finger bitten by the cat, trying to catch her for a second experience in killing and bringing to life. (Th.L Peacock)

4. The congressman from our district, General Fulgham, assured me some days ago that he would use his influence to get my book published at an early date. (O. Henry)

5. Nearly 1,600 birds died, 25 crofts had their vegetables condemned and 2,000 sheep were moved from affected grazing areas as a result of the Braer tank (oil spill) disaster in Shetland, the House of Lords was told yesterday. ("G.")

6. A technical dispute between big brewers and Customs and Excise could have beer and lager drinkers foaming at the mouth: the alcoholic strengths of many brands are to be cut while the prices — already too high for many — remain the same. (" Ind. ")

7. Alan Clark, the colourful former defense minister, had his career "destroyed by woman," his wife Janice claims in a documentary to be shown at the weekend. ("T.")

8. At the Old Courthouse he was booed by a large crowd of farmers and their wives. "Have those damned oafs moved on," he snarled at Sir Giles. "I will not be subject to hooliganism." (T.Sharpe)

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