Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content .
2 How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ?
3 Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ .
4 I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling .
5 While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle .
6 Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme .
7 By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century .
8 Neither of them had breakfasted that morning .
9 A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones .
10 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier .
11 Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work .
12 Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ?
13 ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play .
14 Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned .
15 None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from .
16 There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel .
17 The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography .
18 And a lot of them do waste that time .
19 There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not .
20 Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way .
21 Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities .
22 Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently .
23 But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well .
24 So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture .
25 Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ?
26 ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him .
27 She died in September 1985 within days of my agreeing to do this research .
28 This phenomenon affects all areas of the travel industry : the airlines , most of which had introduced some sort of business class travel by the mid-seventies , now sell about 50 per cent of all scheduled flight tickets to business travellers .
29 Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium .
30 Discussions in the Conferences , particularly that on Political Union , were difficult and a series of uneasy compromises in particular fields was struck at Maastricht , some of which have won few supporters .
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