They _____ building the new hotel because of the great cost.
____ is no wonder that the building is ____ now; it was so big a fire last night.
____ our mother will allow ____ to see a film after supper?
Everybody knows that the sun ____ in the east.
Almost ____ of the students in this class ____ glasses, that is, ____ of them.
The number of people invited ____ fifty, but a few of them ____ absent for different reasons.