Example sentences of "of [pron] [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | If Britain is to compete successfully in the frightening new post-Tokyo world , it must have at its helm a captain over the health of whom no niggling question marks hover . |
2 | Adrian Blackman is a worker and a trier , of whom no one could ask more , but there has always been a question mark over his speed and flexibility . |
3 | many of whom no doubt are present today . |
4 | Elijah Menahem was married by 1253 to a wife named Pucelle , of whom no more is known . |
5 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
6 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
7 | Transracial adoption was also encouraged by developments in child care practice designed to reduce dramatically the number of children living in institutions , of whom a disproportionate number were and still are black ( Raynor 1975 ; Rowe and Lambert , 1970 ) . |
8 | His tenderness towards his many children ( perhaps fifteen in all , of whom a son and five daughters of the first marriage , and two sons and two daughters of the second marriage are certainly known ) was a notable characteristic . |
9 | There are many other pupils , of whom a significant number are girls , who are alienated and disaffected but who provoke no response from professional services . |
10 | About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes . |
11 | Thus the effect of containment resembles the unintended power of the subordinates in this play who execute the commands of the powerful and of whom the Governor complains : |
12 | The support staff is tiny in comparison with that of a Cabinet Minister or US President — about eighty staffworking in Downing Street of whom the great majority ( about sixty ) are clerical and secretarial staff , messengers , clerks , or administrators of the machine . |
13 | He was one of those men of whom the historian Edward Gibbon , who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , reported their disgusting activities ‘ in the decent obscurity of a learned language . ’ |
14 | Mr Gandhi was probably the last of the Nehru rulers , of whom the Congress Party is a creation . |
15 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
16 | A small group of civil servants stayed loyal throughout the eighties , of whom the most formidable was the Prime Minister 's press secretary , Bernard Ingham , the short-tempered son of a Yorkshire weaver . |
17 | Another Select Committee reported in 1875 that ‘ the continued operation of the Deer Removal Act 1851 ’ would ‘ render the rights of common existing over the New Forest worthless , and by so doing … extinguish a large class of small freeholders and tenants of whom the highest character has been given ’ ; furthermore it would ‘ destroy almost the only specimen left in England of a primeval forest , a priceless source of enjoyment to all classes of the nation ’ . |
18 | It was a vow to abstain from theft and oppression and injustice , no less than from heathen practices and witchcraft ; a vow to do no wrong to the Churches of God , nor to injure widows and orphans , of whom the emperor is the chosen protector and guardian . |
19 | The NCB had a chairman , Mr Ian McGregor , of whom the Prime Minister approved . |
20 | For they deny the existence of the pagan gods , of whom the Emperor was one ( so that they were guilty of treason as well as irreverence by refusing to acknowledge them ) . |
21 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
22 | The report rejected the idea of two distinct groups of children , the handicapped and the non-handicapped , of whom the former had special education and the latter just education . |
23 | The cross at the base of the obelisks is the insignia of the Knights of Malta of whom the Carmelites ' patron , Balthasar Huerta , was a member . |
24 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
25 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
26 | He explained that it was a unanimous decision by Butcher , senior coach Alan Jones and second-team coach John Steele , that Maynard , a gifted but erratic player of whom the best has probably not been seen , should have the chance . |
27 | Batting was a hazardous business against another variation of the West Indian pace quartet of whom the quickest was Linden Joseph . |
28 | Cromer cherished the thought that he ‘ remained more or less hidden [ and ] pulled the strings ’ , and proclaimed his contempt for publicity ; yet it was he of whom the fellahin sang as they laboured at their immemorial tasks . |
29 | Like him of whom the story ran |
30 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |