Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese industrial relations display a number of singular characteristics of which the essential elements are the three so-called ‘ pillars ’ of the system , appertaining particularly to larger firms : single-enterprise trade unions , lifetime ( or , more strictly , career ) employment and seniority-related wages . |
| 2 | Finally , we mention two methods of which the main use is probably the calibration of a wind-tunnel or water-channel below the Pitot tube range . |
| 3 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 4 | It is even possible to conceive of holding your own in a conversation in which all you do is repeat aspects of what the other person has just said . |
| 5 | First thing tomorrow he was going to phone the Chief Constable to request copies of everything the Old Bill found out . |
| 6 | Men and women , seated on the open top decks of newfangled motorized omnibuses , had elevated views of what the bright morning sun was doing to the muddy Thames . |
| 7 | Gender is a key source of variation as is ethnicity , which cross-cuts gender because ideas about men 's and women 's roles in the family do vary among the ethnically diverse groups of which the British population is now composed ( Anthias and Yuval-Davies , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | The twins were divided into four test groups : twin with ulcerative colitis , healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had ulcerative colitis , twin with Crohn 's disease , and healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had Crohn 's disease . |
| 9 | The twins were divided into four test groups : twin with ulcerative colitis , healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had ulcerative colitis , twin with Crohn 's disease , and healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had Crohn 's disease . |
| 10 | In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls . |
| 11 | As Jonah Barish ( 1969 ) has pointed out , embedded in our language is a common usage of artistic metaphors of which the dramatic ones are unambiguously pejorative . |
| 12 | in their least modified form the cervical sclerites consists of paired dorsal , lateral and ventral plates of which the lateral pair is of special importance . |
| 13 | Some elements of what the Japanese termed ‘ Western ’ were accepted with enthusiasm and effectiveness — notably in technological modernization and economic development . |
| 14 | There were elements of what the Chinese call the ‘ green-eye disease ’ , and the ‘ moon being rounder ’ , what we would describe as the ‘ grass being greener ’ . |
| 15 | At his last exhibition at Sonne eighteen months ago , the artist used such inventions , laid out on stretchers , bound with iron chains or impaled on spikes , to show life-threatening wounds of which the injured themselves were unaware . |
| 16 | The remaining sections of the Act deal with a variety of mandatory duties of which the following aspects are most significant : |
| 17 | In a well-known dictum , Lord Parker of Waddington said in a case in 1916 : ‘ Those who are responsible for the national security must be the sole judges of what the national security requires . |
| 18 | In actions in contract and tort , there is a general right of appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Supreme Court Act 1981 , s.16 ) , which is excluded in relation to particular matters of which the only significant one for our purposes is the exclusion of a right of appeal against a decision of the High Court allowing an extension of time for appealing . |
| 19 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 20 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 21 | The area covered is 270,000 square feet of which the immense central hall occupied 79 feet by 183 feet . |
| 22 | That would be a fundamental change from the practice of Labour Governments of which the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook was a member . |
| 23 | Light exposure and the stability of cosmetic products to light may be assessed by methods developed for colour fastness of textiles of which the following is an example : British Standard 1006 : 1978 . |
| 24 | There are 4 simple glassy spines of which the dorsalmost is the largest , nearly a segment long . |
| 25 | There are three pointed , slightly flattened , minutely rugose arm spines of which the dorsalmost one appears to be the longest reaching nearly two arm segments in length . |
| 26 | There are 3–4 flat , distally widened , pointed arm spines of which the dorsalmost one is the largest , often equal in length to 2 segments . |
| 27 | There are 4–5 arm spines of which the ventralmost is usually the longest and often sabre shaped . |
| 28 | There are 7–8 simple glassy arm spines of which the second dorsalmost is the longest , up to 3 arm segments long . |
| 29 | There are 3 arm spines of which the middle one is distinctly enlarged and may be laterally compressed . |
| 30 | Astrodia tenuispina can be recognised by the skin covered disk embedded with small thin plates ; jaws with a pointed apical papilla and as many as 5 contiguous block like oral papillae , and 3 arm spines of which the ventral most is the longest . |