Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 2 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |
| 3 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 4 | The experts who study child abuse — most of whom come from the medical and psychological professions — tend to adopt a rather different approach . |
| 5 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 6 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 7 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 8 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |
| 9 | Others put the current figure for the Roman Catholics alone at about 1,500,000 , the majority of whom came from the Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 10 | Amongst the Arab coalition forces the Saudi Arabian losses were given as at least 26 killed ( 19 of whom died in the Iraqi attack on Khafji — see p. 37938 ) and 10 missing ; Egyptian as 19 killed and 74 wounded ; and six dead from the United Arab Emirates . |
| 11 | Pope John Paul II paid a three-day visit ( his fourth ) to Poland on Aug. 13-16 , celebrating mass in Krakow on Aug 13 and paying tribute the next day in his home town of Wadowice to the town 's pre-war Jewish community , many of whom died in the nearby concentration camp at Auschwitz . |
| 12 | The 450,000 employees , 300,000 of whom work in the postal service , are unhappy . |
| 13 | Of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists , however , I confess to having listed only Iain Banks , Kazuo Ishiguro ( both of whom appeared in the third edition ) and Jeanette Winterson , although I think there is scope too for Will Self , Nicholas Shakespeare and maybe Ben Okri . |
| 14 | From the studios and shows I visited I spoke to women artists , all of whom graduated in the last 10 years about their work , their experiences with galleries , residencies , organising shows and lecturing , in an attempt to assess current directions in women 's work and gauge their position within the art world . |
| 15 | Certainly not , he adds , administration officials , who capitulated to the religious right , or most journalists , few of whom delved beyond the obvious in their coverage . |
| 16 | This procedure was denounced as " unconstitutional " by a group of ministers including St Luce , the Prime Minister 's son Lester Bird ( Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Economic Development and Tourism ) , Hugh Marshall ( Minister of Trade , Industry and Energy ) , Robin Yearwood ( Minister of Public Utilities ) , Eustace Cochrane ( Minister of Public Works and Communications ) and Henderson Simon ( Minister without Portfolio ) , all of whom called on the Prime Minister to resign . |
| 17 | Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) . |
| 18 | After all , none of Henri II 's three sons , all of whom sat on the French throne , and all of whom were products of the same education as Mary , was in any way an impressive or successful ruler . |
| 19 | The case was listed for rehearing before a committee of seven members not all of whom sat on the original committee . |
| 20 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 21 | The two of them looked towards the little wooden table outside the sick bay , where a bottle labelled ‘ Dr MacLaren 's Stomach and Bowel Mixture ’ stood , together with a large spoon . |
| 22 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 23 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 24 | One of them parked across the narrow track leading away from the building ; it acted as a barrier . |
| 25 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 26 | Both of them listened to the raised voices . |
| 27 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 28 | Most of them are opportunists , most of them come from the local area they 'll know the housing estates and whatever happens . |
| 29 | The point is — and our survey reveals it — that such an amount does deter some youngsters from participating in tournaments and again with respect , I would guess that few of them come from the lovely part of the country from where you write . |
| 30 | Western liberals and the Left once again found their credulity stretched in defence of the one state which most of them saw as the only bulwark against Nazi Germany . |