Example sentences of "of [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Gandhi was probably the last of the Nehru rulers , of whom the Congress Party is a creation . |
| 5 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The NCB had a chairman , Mr Ian McGregor , of whom the Prime Minister approved . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Batting was a hazardous business against another variation of the West Indian pace quartet of whom the quickest was Linden Joseph . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Like him of whom the story ran |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And it was righter than I knew , the school chapel being dedicated to St Francis , of whom the headmistress was a particular devotee . |
| 22 | Despite a good deal of organized opposition and intrigue from Mozart 's enemies in court circles , of whom the ringleader was probably Antonio Salieri , Figaro was first performed in the Burgtheater on 1 May , 1786 . |
| 23 | As always , there are sub-plots involving comic characters , of whom the most memorable is the bird-catcher Papageno ( played by Schikaneder himself ) . |
| 24 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 25 | The Montrose interest settled the question in this way through political pressure on the two candidates , for John Stirling was less than enthusiastic about sharing his responsibilities with Craigannet , and it was obviously hazardous to be joined in responsibility for accounting for public money with a colleague of whom the Stirling family had ‘ no good character ’ . |
| 26 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 27 | Most of the empire for which they were responsible had been settled by people outside the Church of England , of whom the majority were nonconformist Protestants , though there were a fair number of Roman Catholics in Maryland and in the West Indian islands to which Irishmen had gone . |
| 28 | Our results pertain to a sample of 101 subjects , in many of whom the birth weight was obtained by maternal recall . |
| 29 | However , to make this feasible commercially he needs to take up to six clients , for each of whom the cost will be about £12,000 . |
| 30 | Paston names four local men sworn to the duke 's service , of whom the most important was William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe ( Norf . ) . |