Example sentences of "of [pron] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that if you 've only got twenty spaces then that 's difficult because we 've got a hundred and something members most of whom are in the central belt |
| 2 | Passengers at the time amounted to several thousands on the SVR Gala , most of whom were at the northern Bridgnorth end of the line , enjoying rides behind 56014 and 59101 which was earlier named ‘ Village of Whatley ’ . |
| 3 | Well one of them 's on the second one , and one 's on |
| 4 | Erm many of my officers erm indeed all of them are of the same mind . |
| 5 | ‘ Tie-in books ’ are a major part of any best-seller list , but not all of them are of the semi-literate kind often found there and described earlier . |
| 6 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 7 | How many of them are on the drier river terraces ? |
| 8 | Most of them are in the outer and inner narthices , on the walls , lunettes and in the ceiling shallow domes and ribbed cupolas . |
| 9 | And to add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller , I must not forget the eternally meeting with chalk-waggons ; themselves frequently stuck fast , till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each , to draw them out one by one . |
| 10 | ‘ There are adequate championship courses in Britain and many of them are in the top hundred in the world . |
| 11 | One of them is at the post-compulsory level of schooling , where people no longer have to be at school . |
| 12 | One of them is in the only escape pod that ejected from the starship . |
| 13 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 14 | if both of them were on the same level there would be no falls , there would be no power . |
| 15 | Most of them were on the lean side because of the hard life they led and the long walks they took over hilly country to reach their fields . |
| 16 | Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub , which had a sort of export trade in heroes . |
| 17 | Three of them were among the first to be evacuated by the Red Cross from the notorious Banja Luka camp . |
| 18 | Two of them were among the first documentaries to be made about the war , and thus have considerable historical importance . |
| 19 | But economic growth is subject to many influences , most of which are beyond the direct control of government , and relatively small errors in the Treasury 's forecast can have quite large effects on actual revenue receipts and public expenditures . |
| 20 | There are now several recorded versions of Victoria 's Responsories for Holy Week , all of which are of the highest order . |
| 21 | The advice to plunge into the specific problem , on the model of counsel 's opinion , applies even where the problem is divided into several parts , all of which are on the same general department of law . |
| 22 | To find it , first identify the little group made up of Gamma , Theta , Iota and Lambda , all of which are around the fourth magnitude . |
| 23 | They include several relatives of our native sea holly , Eryngium maritimum , all of which are among the drought-tolerant of all plants and are attractive in foliage and flower as well . |
| 24 | About half a million Americans live in some 176000 adobe houses , 97 per cent of which are in the four contiguous states of New Mexico , Arizona , Texas and California . |
| 25 | The Treasurer presented her financial report , details of which are in the Annual Report . |
| 26 | Since 1974 , some 6600 dwellings have been completed in Blyth Valley , the bulk of which are in the private sector ( 4400 ) . |
| 27 | The train will then head for London , bearing amongst its passengers the winners of the Scotsman competition , details of which are in the previous column . |
| 28 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 29 | The scheme of increasing complexity from sub-atomic particle to individual living being yields seven levels of organization , only three of which are in the non-living world . |
| 30 | Today when society , and consequently education , is increasingly dominated by national , academic and statistical considerations and visual imagination is neglected , I believe that this was his great contribution , the survival of which is of the greatest importance . |