Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The persons in respect of whom Parliament was legislating |
| 33 | The money will go to support Scottish composers , all but one of whom lives on native soil . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The main focus of the moh lam is the plight of two young men , one of whom catches AIDS . |
| 37 | 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 ’ . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | 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 " . |
| 40 | A major exception to the principle of proportionality relates to the sentencing of offenders for violent and sexual offences , in respect of whom courts are empowered to pass longer sentences than are ‘ commensurate ’ if they consider it necessary ‘ to protect the public from serious harm from the offender ’ ( section 2(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Topaz grieved for Andrew and for Virginia , the girl she had never met , but of whom Timothy had said many kind things . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | This was the friend of whom Vera had spoken . |
| 49 | Thus , in the early 1980s , 86% of the non-white population aged under 16 were born in Britain compared with 14% born overseas ; this is the exact reverse of the figures for those over 16 , of whom 14% were born in Britain and 86% overseas ( OPCS , 1986 , p. 20 , Table 4 ) . |
| 50 | 45% of the respondents were non-enrollers , of whom 14% lacked the entry qualifications to get onto the courses we covered in the study . |
| 51 | This has also been supported by observations in Japanese and Hawaiian men ( Chung et al , 1969 ) , and is consistent with the low rate of macrovascular disease found in Pima Indians ( Ingelfinger et al , 1976 ) and Bantu diabetics ( Shapiro et al , 1973 ) , in both of whom hypertriglyceridaemia is extremely common . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’ |
| 55 | But although she was also one of Kraus 's greatest admirers she had dared to read Heine , of whom Kraus had once said : ‘ Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today even little salesman can fondle her breasts . ’ |
| 56 | One was the effectiveness of the longbow in the hands of the Welsh archers of whom Edward I had over 10,000 , all of them paid , on campaign that summer . |
| 57 | The kingdom is said to have been divided among three kings , Hun , Beonna and Aethelberht , of whom Aethelberht was still reigning in 794 ( ASC A , s.a. 792 ) ( which would give him a reign of forty-five years ) . |
| 58 | The case began before King Stephen , in front of whom Osbert denied the charge and claimed " benefit of clergy " , saying that because of his clerical status he was not subject to the king 's jurisdiction but only to that of the Church . |
| 59 | In 1988 a larger team moved to Tooting , at the invitation of the Shaftesbury Society , and in eighteen months grew to a group of 150 attending worship , of whom 70% are new converts . |
| 60 | They spoke to several people en route to the cloakroom , all of whom Natasha introduced Maggie to , explaining who the person was and what they did . |