Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Freedom for Lithuania ’ shouted the demonstrators , many of whom carried the yellow , red and green national flag of the republic as they marched past Morsoleum . |
| 2 | Bliss made the introductions , beginning with the taller of the men , both of whom wore the nondescript dark suits traditionally favoured by high-ranking police officers . |
| 3 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 4 | himself , the big , distracting man and two women , one of whom had the incisive skill of a surgeon . |
| 5 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 6 | The election of October 1951 had brought 100 new Conservative MPs into parliament all of whom received the undivided attention of the lobbyists . |
| 7 | David Fairhall adds : The regular Panamanian forces , not all of whom opposed the American intervention according to the Pentagon , were vastly outnumbered by US troops . |
| 8 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 9 | The Republican and Democratic contests were won by President George Bush and Governor Bill Clinton respectively , both of whom ended the primary season with sufficient party convention delegates to be assured of winning the presidential nomination of their respective parties . |
| 10 | 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 ) ; |
| 11 | The fighting was a further manifestation of the traditional enmity between Gadabursis , who generally backed the regime of President Siyad Barre in neighbouring Somalia , and Issaqs , many of whom supported the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) in its efforts to overthrow Barre [ see p. 37400 ; see p. 37064 for earlier clashes ] . |
| 12 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 13 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 14 | He walked with self-conscious haste up the south side of the street towards Temple Bar , staring into the face of everyone coming the opposite way , challenging them to give any sign of their pity and contempt . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 17 | Certainly part of me won the 1964 Open . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 20 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
| 21 | By this stage , many of them reflected the growing importance of the classical movement , depicting their subjects in classical settings , surrounded by symbolic fruits , flowers , and urns . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was n't sure how many of them knew the actual meaning of the word . |
| 24 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 25 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 26 | When two crabs meet in a rock pool , one of them grasps the other and ‘ raps ’ vigorously and noisily at the other 's shell . |
| 27 | Someone had told me that no less than twenty people had left the Church after my speech , many of them to join the Raelian Society , a group that exists to set up embassies on earth for alien intelligences wishing to make contact with earthlings . |
| 28 | And of those who firmly intended to vote Conservative more than half of them said the major reason for giving the Tories support was that ‘ they like the local candidate ’ . |
| 29 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 30 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |