Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately their first action was to ask those already within the system of whom they should make enquiries . |
| 2 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |
| 3 | In more realistic conditions , however , managers are faced with a complex series of questions in the resolution of which they must exercise choice , for example , about plant location , production methods , employment levels , output , advertising , investment , research and development , and so on . |
| 4 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 5 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 6 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 7 | Councillor has lived and worked all his life in with the exception of his war service in the army which was spent in the South of England , of which I will make mention later . |
| 8 | But the most important action that it can take is to enter into a programme with the IMF as soon as possible , on the back of which it will gain access to many western funds . |
| 9 | There were three attics and through the open door of one he could see Fox sorting the contents of a huge cabin-trunk while his assistant was foraging in a cupboard beside the chimney breast . |
| 10 | Which is ridiculous cos if you put a H in front of it it should say hate . |
| 11 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 12 | If the existing carpet is in reasonable condition but you 're sick to death of it you could add rugs to cheer it up . |
| 13 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 14 | We may thus envisage a gradient of what we shall term establishment of senses . |
| 15 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 16 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 17 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 18 | are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country . |
| 19 | " I 've had plenty of time to think of what I shall tell people . |
| 20 | The Government try to justify their claims about a minimum wage on the grounds of what it might to do employment , so it is worth spending a little time on the reasons why we shall insist on introducing it , and the rationale behind that . |
| 21 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |