Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had two daughters , a little older than my mother , both of whom attended a secondary school . |
| 2 | In pride of place was one of Rembrandt 's great representations of the Holy Family , the two women by the cradle , one of whom reads a Holy book by the frail light of a candle . |
| 3 | We were very pleased and honoured to receive a visit from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , both of whom displayed a keen interest in our work and were even inveigled , by , into performing with the ‘ Dopple Kloppers ’ , being taught at that session ! |
| 4 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 5 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
| 6 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 7 | Their attack focused on St Margaret 's School in Cricklewood , where they found ten refugee girls , three of whom had a religious background . |
| 8 | It was these brilliant architectural triumphs which so much impressed foreign visitors , many of whom had a professional interest and who came to learn as well as admire . |
| 9 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
| 10 | As a further example , the chunk could be used by two users , one of whom had a small default font , and the other a large : again the size of each Title would adapt accordingly . |
| 11 | Commercially available expert system shells have been used since most of the expert systems have been developed by engineering tradesmen , few of whom had a strong computing background . |
| 12 | Jane was thirty-three and had two children , one of whom had a slight speech defect which made Jane very interested in speech therapy . |
| 13 | Accompanying these kids were what appeared to be three extravagant South American transvestites in dresses , rouge and lipstick , one of whom had a used tampon on a piece of string around her neck . |
| 14 | There were , in fact , many Irish Americans in United Motors at high management levels , all of whom had a nostalgic affection for the ‘ auld counthrie ’ , and indeed for anything Irish ; but that was because most of them had never actually been there . |
| 15 | The interest in policy outcomes is influenced by a model of pluralistic evaluation which identifies the major constituent groups of a policy initiative , each of whom attaches a different notion of criteria for success to an operation , plus different strategies for pursuing objectives . |
| 16 | A total of 2958 never smokers in 1988 were surveyed in 1990 , 2924 ( 99% ) of whom gave a valid response for smoking status . |
| 17 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 18 | Although South Dakota carried little electoral weight , either nationally or in terms of its proportion of delegates sent to the nominating convention , it had considerable significance for the Democratic contest in that it was adjacent to the native states of both Harkin and Kerrey , each of whom needed a good showing after their disappointing results in New Hampshire . |
| 19 | It should come as no surprise that , in a society with increasing numbers of very old people , proportionately and absolutely , a substantial proportion of whom have a serious degree of mental infirmity , a significant number will suffer abuse . |
| 20 | Most of the cavers I have met , and I have met hundreds , have been careful and courageous people who cave for the adventure , challenge and hard physical exercise , and most of whom have a deep appreciation of the beauties of underground limestone . |
| 21 | The next two owners were wealthy Shrewsbury drapers , each of whom lost a great deal of money when their London connections went bankrupt and were forced to sell again . |
| 22 | A farewell party was arranged with the usual outcome of everyone remembering a good evening ( we have to tell ++ ) . |
| 23 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 24 | That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice . |
| 25 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 26 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 27 | In addition the information society substitutes brain for brawn : 70 per cent of its jobs require intellectual skills and at least half of them require a professional qualification or education to degree standard . |
| 28 | Nearly all of them use a formulaic phrase : ‘ I dug him downstairs and his belly rolled over to there . ’ |
| 29 | One of them saw a tarnished wristwatch lying on the beach and decided to play a practical joke . |
| 30 | Instead , most of them saw a steady confirmation of their existing position . |