Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They were found in 16% of 98 children who had completed a course of sclerotherapy , all of whom responded to simple dilatation . |
2 | By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92% of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . |
3 | With a number of recent recordings of these works by various players , most of whom claim in one way or another the composer 's approval of their performance , it is certainly worth hearing how Messiaen himself approached his organ music . |
4 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
5 | Similar letters were addressed to A and to the company , neither of whom had at that time been charged with any offence under the Act . |
6 | The trio — all of whom had at one time endured menial jobs in factories , Stock making gaskets , Aitken fizzy drinks and Waterman manufacturing telephone dials — were now at the helm of the 1980 ’ s most phenomenal Hit Factory . |
7 | They had two sons , one of whom died on active service in 1944 , and one daughter . |
8 | The team was on the mountain — although on the opposite side — at the same time as Ulric and Cathy Jessop , the latter of whom died from pulmonary oedema during a retreat , unbeknown to the south face team . |
9 | both of whom phoned in this afternoon . |
10 | From the eleventh century on , the old basis of feudal knighthood became increasingly artificial ; and it is a strange irony that the Norman kings , all of whom relied in large measure on money to recruit their armies , should have introduced the most complete feudal structure of the old kind into England . |
11 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
12 | They were precipitated by the resignations in December 1990 of Michel Noir , 46 , and of two fellow dissident members of the " Renovator " faction of the opposition neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) , all of whom stood as ex-RPR by-election candidates . |
13 | The event , sponsored by the Cooperative Bank and organised by the town 's recreation department , attracts entries from all over the country , many of whom run in fancy dress for their favourite charities . |
14 | The AAPA 's membership covers 1,100 individuals who are authorised as auditors by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under the Companies Act 1967 , most of whom work as sole practitioners . |
15 | Many women are in employment but women also make up 60 per cent of Britain 's six million carers , many of whom look after elderly relatives . |
16 | Euphronios as painter worked with at least two ‘ potters ’ , Kachrylion and Euxitheos ( whose name appears on the vase fig. 89 ) both of whom worked with other painters . |
17 | A Conservative government , if you believe their manifesto , ought not even to be considering putting money into dying private-sector firms , but Huerter employ a lot of people , many of whom voted for this government . |
18 | ‘ It 's really not professional of me to comment on these things . |
19 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
20 | Most of them reappear with little change in the ‘ Ainulindalé ’ or ‘ Valaquenta ’ . |
21 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
22 | The three of them looked into each other 's faces , and seemed to breathe more freely . |
23 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
24 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
25 | This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years , and all three of them use in various forms the version prepared by Shostakovich on the basis of Pavel Lamm 's edition . |
26 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
27 | Most of them come with explanatory booklets detailing the words and commands the computer understands , and include a description of each cave or room that Samson might enter . |
28 | The number of people with AIDS varies enormously between countries , but most of them come from large towns rather than rural areas . |
29 | Only 1,000 people work on long-term — usually one-to two-year — secondments in the UK at present , many of them arranged by London-based secondment broker the Action Resource Centre . |
30 | The trouble was , there were too many of them packed into this room . |