Example sentences of "[det] of [Wh det] [noun pl] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Enham material has been discussed at such length because it suggests much about contemporary conditions , and is essential to an understanding of the documents which Wulfstan wrote under Cnut , some of whose actions must have been disapproved . |
| 2 | There is no real common denominator that can be used to classify the ‘ Originals ’ , the first fifty-odd recruits to the SAS , some of whose names will constantly crop up during the course of this book . |
| 3 | To that end , powers were vested by the FSA in the Secretary of State ( the relevant department being originally the Department of Trade and Industry and subsequently the Treasury ) , some of which powers could be delegated to a " designated agency " , a non-statutory body . |
| 4 | Binomial distributions deal with a fixed population , each of whose members may possess only one of two possible elements ( the thesis is either cited in one year , or it is not ) , and the successive values of these elements are not dependent on the previous values ( a citation in one year does not imply a lack of citation in a following year ) . |
| 5 | For although these have been substantially revised there is still a considerable element of compulsion involved in the duty to train and exercise staff , and an absence of any conscientious objection clause analogous to that of which combatants may avail themselves . |
| 6 | According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured . |
| 7 | University offers a unique opportunity to study subjects not offered at school as well as those of which applicants may have some experience . |
| 8 | Damien Hirst ( several of whose pieces can currently be seen at the Saatchi Collection in London ) may create installations from a shark suspended in formaldehyde , or from flies being bred in a sealed glass chamber , but each work is a memento mori as powerful as any Dutch still life . |
| 9 | But this can not be the only explanation , because pigeons can home normally even when taken out in enclosed vans in continuously rotating cages , or even under anaesthetic , both of which treatments should render learning the outward journey impossible . |