Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late seventies a succession of writers , of whom Correlli Barnett and Martin Wiener were the best-known , had given this idea intellectual respectability . |
| 2 | Mahmoud detested everything that Nuri stood for : the old , near-feudal Egypt , with its hereditary great landlords , of whom Nuri was one ; court-based politics , in which Nuri was adept ; the power of the old order to block and frustrate all attempts at reform . |
| 3 | It was ironic that John Cornford should be named Rupert in memory of the poet Rupert Brooke [ q.v. ] , who had died in April 1915 , for Cornford came to despise the school of Georgian poets , of whom Brooke was the supreme exemplar and his mother a loyal adherent . |
| 4 | Everyone was into existentialism , along with the beginnings of meditation , Zen and some other odd philosophies practised and preached by one of Dean 's advisers , a male witch named Samson DeVreer , who was often in company of another of Dean 's odd acquaintances , the television hostess named Vampira , because she looked like one , of whom Dean once said — when asked by Hedda Hopper if he was seeing her — ‘ I do n't date cartoons . ’ |
| 5 | The value placed on this formal approach is reminiscent of American New Criticism , and also of Russian Formalism and the work of Roman Jakobson — all of whom Genette approvingly cites in this essay on structuralism and literary criticism . |
| 6 | According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari was born in Safar 751/April-May 1350 and studied " in his own lands ' under certain scholars of whom Ibn Hajar names three : Ala " al-Din , known as al-Aswad ( Kara Hoca ) ; al-Kamal Muhammad b . |
| 7 | The Morellian method had opponents , among them some of the German scholars of whom Morelli made fun by his articles . |
| 8 | Though he sensed that he was getting close — his goal , the gringo brain behind the coup , of whom Miguelito had boasted . |
| 9 | Whereas Guedron had considerable sense of drama , Boësset had more talent for lyricism and the love-song , and it was his path rather than that of his father-in-law which was followed by the younger composers , of whom Francois Richard the elder ( d. 1650 ) and Étienne Moulinié ( c. 1600–after 1669 ) were the most gifted . |
| 10 | The Cabinet member of whom Baldwin 's opinion rose most rapidly was Birkenhead . |
| 11 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 12 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 13 | It was lively enough to marry Bellow to a ‘ stylish Radcliffe graduate ’ of whom Roth had been ‘ enamoured ’ — if we are to assume that The Facts has not imagined the connection . |
| 14 | External and internal war produced their victims , of whom Makarenko 's stray youths were but one example . |
| 15 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 16 | Setting aside the question of whom Europe must defend herself against , each of these points of view fails to take account of one critical fact : the military structures of Nato , which have proved their worth over forty years , will still be in place regardless of any diminution of the American presence in Europe . |
| 17 | GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA , the military ruler of Panama , is largely a creation of the Americans , but one of whom Washington is now anxious to be rid : hence the unvarnished disappointment there at the failure of the latest attempt to topple him . |
| 18 | This put heart into me , because in all the years that followed I came increasingly to believe that the genuine radicals were neither the ‘ philosophical radicals ’ ( much as I admired J. S. Mill , and have even found good in Bentham ) nor the Fabian radicals , the socialists or social democrats , but the kind of conservative radicals of whom Cobbett was perhaps the earliest example . |
| 19 | When the 1955 files were released at the Public Record Office , Eden 's committee-making in these areas was interpreted as evidence of vacillation and lack of grip on the part of a premier of whom Kilmuir later wrote , ‘ no one in public life lived more on his nerves than he did ’ . |
| 20 | These were at-home years of high purpose , tough conditions , and not very much humour — marked by the austere image of Stafford Cripps , of whom Churchill observed ‘ There but for the Grace of God , goes God . ’ |
| 21 | For this Fisher 's sad end came on Tower Hill on June 22nd , 1535 , when the ageing Bishop was executed , a man of whom Erasmus wrote , " He was without comparison of his time , greatness of mind , learning and integrity of life " . |
| 22 | Sami Jafaar 's nephew , Khalid Nazir Jafaar , was a subsource of his , and one of whom El-Jorr seemed particularly proud as he was the favourite grandson of the drug clan 's patriarch , Moostafa Jafaar . |
| 23 | They will have to be approved by the Lord Chancellor and be subject to the ‘ concurrence ’ of four senior Supreme Court judges , of whom Lord Donaldson will be one . |
| 24 | She was liable to propel into the governmental system men associated with business success , of whom Lord Young became the prototype from 1984 onwards She was truly a distinctive phenomenon , linked neither with the patrician values of the grandees in the shires , nor with the manufacturing Tories of northern England cherished by Disraelian Tory Democracy in the last century , nor again with the suburban Toryism dominant in the party in the interwar years and after 1951 . |
| 25 | Topaz grieved for Andrew and for Virginia , the girl she had never met , but of whom Timothy had said many kind things . |
| 26 | Giunia 's aria , ‘ Parto m'affretto ’ , No.16 , sung in the first performance by Anna de Amicis-Buonsollazzi , of whom Leopold wrote : ‘ De Amacis is our best friend . |
| 27 | Lou continued to be the nearest he had to a first and real love and she still went to all the broadcasts and visited Pinewood for every film , sitting on her own canvas chair , sometimes by herself , frequently with her sister Daisy , of whom Ken himself was still very fond . |
| 28 | This was the friend of whom Vera had spoken . |
| 29 | The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized . |
| 30 | He was really the only opposition to the powerful American golf managers , of whom Mike Martinez was the most successful , with clients in tennis , baseball , motor racing and with worldwide television interests as well . |