Example sentences of "of [pron] is [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least fifty per cent of which is documented historical fact , you claim that yourself at the beginning of the book . ’ |
| 2 | It has a Legislative Committee , one of the chief functions of which is to negotiate parliamentary endorsement for such measures . |
| 3 | The grant is awarded to pay toward the costs of a series of three workshops , the purpose of which is to disseminate 16-19 Initiative findings . |
| 4 | It appears that the unemployed are segmented into two groups each of which is accorded different treatment : those who have been unemployed for more than six months and those who have not . |
| 5 | In particular , Vol. 2 provides site accounts for individual sites , within many of which is included botanical information . |
| 6 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 7 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 8 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 9 | In an interview on Sept. 29 , Kotai rejected ( i ) the document 's call for " the consolidation of what is called socialist property " ; and ( ii ) references to " the gaining ground of revanchism , neo-fascism and neo-Nazism in " certain countries ' " , which Kotai said implicitly but wrongly included West Germany . |
| 10 | we must ask whose opinions in the classroom setting are crucial in the judgment of what is deemed proper action . |
| 11 | Neither of us is making much sense of this right now . |