Example sentences of "of [pron] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period . |
| 2 | Joseph and Ann had six children , none of whom is named in the will . |
| 3 | In practice , the sleep/wake cycle seems to exert an important effect upon many of our daily rhythms and the timing of many of them is determined by the time of mid-sleep or the middle of our waking hours . |
| 4 | But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable . |
| 5 | Thus unreasonable or unusual terms may be held not to have been incorporated into the contract unless special notice of them is given in the contract ( Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 348 ) . |
| 6 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 7 | More sophisticated rules for smoothing these end values are available , but discussion of them is postponed for the present . |
| 8 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 9 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 10 | Financial circumstances other than as a result of redundancy under the terms of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 ( notice of which is received after the issue of the Booking Confirmation ) , disinclination to travel or weather conditions . |
| 11 | These are tensioned in the ‘ down ’ position by an elastic or bungee , one end of which is hooked on the bowsprit , and the other linked to a trip line which runs through the two sails to the slotted tube at the rear , where it is retained by the release pin . |
| 12 | The radio-friendly ‘ Talk Much ’ features a couple of serious John DaSilva mixes , one of which is named after the Hacienda Shiva nights . |
| 13 | The second stage is the growth of the crystalline region , the size of which is governed by the rate of addition of other chains to the nucleus . |
| 14 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 15 | In the days before effective treatment , endocarditis , in which the valves of the heart are themselves affected , was a very serious complication , a measure of which is given by the title of a contemporary report : ‘ Gonococcal endocarditis — a report of twelve cases , with ten post-mortem examinations ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 16 | If the Crown does not consider the particulars of claim give sufficient information as to the government department and officers concerned under Ord 42 , r 4 , it may , before the time for filing a defence has expired , file with the court two copies of a request for such information , one of which is sent to the plaintiff . |
| 17 | The scan score is a dimensionless quantity , the magnitude of which is related to the degree of abnormal uptake in the gut . |
| 18 | They make three assumptions : ( a ) the real polymer chains move in a mean field called the cage , and in the cage field each chain is confined in a tube-like region , the central line of which is defined as the primitive chain ; ( b ) the equilibrium conformation of the primitive chain is a random walk with step length a and arc length L ; ( c ) the primitive chain , as a whole , moves as a Brownian particle along itself , with curvilinear diffusion constant D. |
| 19 | Most visitors ask about the history of the garden , part of which is built on the site of a nunnery attached to the church next door . |
| 20 | ‘ Paddock grazing ’ , in which the grassland is divided into small paddocks , grazed hard for a short period and then rested for up to three weeks , is a very good system for the control of parasite worms , the life cycle of which is broken during the rest periods . |
| 21 | We have put up prize money of £8,000 , all of which is to go to the schools . |
| 22 | It is made from the liver , lungs and heart of a sheep with the addition of oatmeal and spices , all of which is packed into the sheep 's stomach . |
| 23 | Landowners singled out for attention on Forbidden Britain day included the Earl of Macclesfield , who owns an estate of 8,000 acres , most of which is denied to the public , and Viscount Parker , who has an estate in the Oxfordshire Chilterns . |
| 24 | A common law court will receive some evidence in writing , whether in the form of reports , exhibits or ‘ agreed bundles of documents ’ ; but in principle the evidence is ‘ heard ’ at the actual trial , the form of which is influenced by the needs of the jury even in those systems , such as the English , where the actual presence of a jury in a civil trial is now quite exceptional . |
| 25 | For the moment it is enough to underline the relevance of this suggestion to the Sonnets , the whole experience of which is presented from the point of view of ego alone , from which perspective the third person is indeed a sign of a double absence , both of the I and the Thou . |
| 26 | This type of jig has limitations ; it can not make an ellipse , any part of which is covered by the jig . |
| 27 | These ad hoc bodies , as they are frequently described , were created by local or private Acts of Parliament , the scope of which is limited to the locality or interests concerned . |
| 28 | There is a family ‘ life cycle ’ , only part of which is represented on the back of cereal packets , which is illustrated in figure 6.3 . |
| 29 | Each chain coils up into a complicated knot , the precise shape of which is determined by the order of amino acids . |
| 30 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |