Example sentences of "of which [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by site alone , 83 per cent could be due to venous disorders , and 10 per cent to arterial insufficiency — a disproportionate number of which affected male patients . |
| 2 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |
| 3 | The rich farming land surrounding the city determined the city , s development as a market town , with its regular cattle and produce sales , neither of which attracted Jewish merchants . |
| 4 | Five experimental words were chosen ; four of which had four senses and the remaining word three . |
| 5 | I was running along the pavement of Rochdale Road , just after midnight , wearing , among other things , two quilted anoraks , one of which had fourteen pounds of sand sewn into the lining . |
| 6 | There were rows and rows of cheaply printed books of weird poetry about erotic fantasies all of which had close links with LSD … |
| 7 | He also wrote about three dozen plays and seventeen musicals , several of which had long runs , including Crutch and Toothpick ( 1879 ) and especially The Lights o' London ( 1881 ) . |
| 8 | From here I went to the Asprey , Mallett of Bourdon House , and S J Phillips stands , all of which had many treasures I coveted . |
| 9 | A large collection of sun-hats hung on pegs in the entrance hall , bowls were filled with dried lavender and a huge pottery jar was crammed with walking-sticks , some of which had ornate silver handles . |
| 10 | There was such a variety of activities and competitions for all ages — tennis , windsurfing , dinghy sailing , table tennis ( some of which had free instruction ) . |
| 11 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 12 | One expression of this unity is the growth of great interstate sanctuaries , many of which had four-yearly festivals and games open to all Greeks . |
| 13 | Martin recorded several plants which indicated diuretic properties , some of which had purgative effects , and others which ‘ cured the fluxes ’ , such as the syrup of bilberries . |
| 14 | The 19th century witnessed the evolution of public and saloon bars ; the introduction of bar , or counter , rather than waiter , service ; and the legal licensing of premises , all of which had profound effects on pub design . |
| 15 | The polytechnic was originally formed from three colleges , two of which ran applied physics degree courses . |
| 16 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 17 | Adam swiftly read the titles , most of which contained romantic words like ‘ love ’ , ‘ heart ’ , ‘ arrow ’ , ‘ passionate ’ , ‘ fire ’ , ‘ dream ’ , ‘ kiss ’ , and ‘ enchanted ’ . |
| 18 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced last week , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp profit declines of 39.4% at $699.4m and 48% at $186m respectively . |
| 19 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 20 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 21 | Various regional movements emerged , some of which became political parties . |
| 22 | If you think about it , this is a naive question , since it would be possible ( in theory ) to construct a TV schedule to get 100 TVRs by using 100 spots which each achieved one TVR or by using four spots each of which achieved 25 TVRs . |
| 23 | Fierce competition between the major tour operators in Britain , Germany and Scandinavia produced advantageous deals with airlines and hotels ; there were better and more economical aircraft , and less financial restrictions , all of which produced cheaper holidays . |
| 24 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |
| 25 | To be " denounced " , " censured " , or " condemned " ( each of which carried equal weight ) was the strongest form of discipline against a member short of outright expulsion . |
| 26 | Mary in a pretty pink dress out of which stuck yellow claws and a head and face made by plastic surgeons of grafts ranging in colour from vellum to grape-purple . |
| 27 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 28 | It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day . |
| 29 | Hellen and I attended several of the society 's Sunday afternoon showings of ‘ classics ’ of foreign films , two of which made lasting impressions : one was the famous Italian masterpiece ‘ The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ’ and the other was that delightful French film entitled ‘ Generals Sans Boutons ’ . |
| 30 | But in 1990 Toyota 's financial profit lengthened its lead over Honda and Nissan , both of which made financial losses . |