Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language . |
| 2 | the exercise encouraged greater communication with governors ( a number of whom read the whole study ) , and between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and more junior staff ( who seemed to be more willing to ask for help ) ; |
| 3 | It should come as no surprise that , in a society with increasing numbers of very old people , proportionately and absolutely , a substantial proportion of whom have a serious degree of mental infirmity , a significant number will suffer abuse . |
| 4 | More recent writers have confidence in their role — as story-tellers rather than moral teachers — and more confidence in their young readers , most of whom have a working ethical sense . |
| 5 | Most of the cavers I have met , and I have met hundreds , have been careful and courageous people who cave for the adventure , challenge and hard physical exercise , and most of whom have a deep appreciation of the beauties of underground limestone . |
| 6 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |
| 7 | 1962 : EMI introduces its Stateside label , licensing material from scores of US companies including A&M , Tamla Motown , Vee Jay and ABC , all of whom have no British outlets of their own . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 9 | That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice . |
| 10 | Both of them take the present sexual division of labour as given and understand that this has important implications for women in their search for an income . |
| 11 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 12 | The two of them make a right pair , sending messages , leaving notes you look at this , now ! ’ |
| 13 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 14 | In addition the information society substitutes brain for brawn : 70 per cent of its jobs require intellectual skills and at least half of them require a professional qualification or education to degree standard . |
| 15 | Nearly all of them use a formulaic phrase : ‘ I dug him downstairs and his belly rolled over to there . ’ |
| 16 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 17 | Where the firm is taking over another practice , accepting its outstanding liabilities and receiving payments for work in progress at the date of the takeover , these matters should be spelled out , particularly where the partners of the acquired practice or some of them join the new firm . |
| 18 | Many of them maintain a fixed parity between their own currencies and the French franc . |
| 19 | And there 's only one sure way to do that : recruit and train them individually or in pairs but never let any one of them see the whole list . ’ |
| 20 | Many of them offer an excellent service at a more economical price than the five-star hotels and most of them have a swimming pool , tennis courts and gardens along with night-time entertainment and a relaxed family atmosphere . |
| 21 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 22 | The strict selection of monks applying to Saint-Vanne and the high standards of learning it demanded of them provide an early insight into Pérignon 's own capabilities . |
| 23 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 24 | Some of them give a great deal of importance to using weak forms , but do not stress the importance of also knowing when to use the strong forms , something which I feel is very important . |
| 25 | The journalist sees new products coming through all the time , and though some of them represent a real breakthrough in their field most are not really very exciting . |
| 26 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 27 | While no working poor families are now subjected to 100 per cent marginal tax rates , large numbers of them face the combined effect of tax and loss of means-tested benefits , which withdraws over three-quarters of any increased income they earn . |
| 28 | Most of them produce an annual flush of bloom , but this is unlikely to impress as much as the beautiful leaves themselves . |
| 29 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 30 | Except for Freud , whose impersonal style does not reveal him , all of them flaunt a pronounced sado-masochistic sensibility . |