Example sentences of "of [pron] the following " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 2 | The 25th section of the Act of 1873 dealt specially with a number of points in which there was a difference between Law and Equity , of which the following may here be mentioned : |
| 3 | The remaining sections of the Act deal with a variety of mandatory duties of which the following aspects are most significant : |
| 4 | Light exposure and the stability of cosmetic products to light may be assessed by methods developed for colour fastness of textiles of which the following is an example : British Standard 1006 : 1978 . |
| 5 | In 1989 , 1990 and 1991 New Millennium holidays have attracted a lot of favourable comments in the news media of which the following are a few examples : |
| 6 | Consider , for example , that type of syntactic structure which Chomsky refers to as the kernel sentence , of which the following are examples : |
| 7 | In our brief consideration of Kant 's moral philosophy , it may be helpful to begin by distinguishing three different sorts of questions — of which the following are chief examples . |
| 8 | Presumably our recruiters will try to convey this , but written adverts , brochures and other media should seek to emphasise the benefits of which the following is a sample : |
| 9 | But this general rule is hedged about with various provisos , of which the following will serve as a specimen : |
| 10 | Screening would have to be systematic and sensitive to what might be termed trouble indicators , of which the following provide some examples . |
| 11 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 12 | She worked with groups of college undergraduates who were asked to write four-minute stories in response to several verbal cues , of which the following was the sixth , |
| 13 | Many languages clearly have a common source so it is possible to group languages into families of which the following are the largest : |
| 14 | Many languages clearly have a common source so it is possible to group languages into families of which the following are the largest : |
| 15 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 16 | The subject is one of such importance to the conveyancer that readers are advised to acquire one of the books and booklets devoted to the subject , of which the following are three examples : Guide to Enquiries of Local Authorities by Trevor Aldridge ( Longman Professional ) ; Handbook of Conveyancing Searches by E O Bourne ( Sweet & Maxwell ) ; and Searches and Enquiries — A Conveyancer 's Guide by Frances Silverman ( Butterworths ) . |
| 17 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 18 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |