Example sentences of "of [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |
| 2 | To make sure that the job was done properly , Mr Lobov appointed three new deputy ministers , two of whom are former deputy chairmen of Gosplan , the Soviet central-planning agency . |
| 3 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 4 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 5 | Thus the ideas formulated by scientists and mediated by the medical profession formed the framework within which all women , including active feminists ( most of whom were middle class ) , had to work . |
| 6 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 7 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
| 8 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 9 | Some of them are absolute rubbish some of them are very very very good . |
| 10 | Too many of them are visual firework displays without an emotional centre , or a coherent narrative structure . |
| 11 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
| 12 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 13 | And if Graham Taylor sticks with the Wright-Shearer partnership , England wo n't go far wrong in their World Cup qualifying group because both of them are international class . |
| 14 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 15 | Most of them are common sense but you would be surprised how , in our eagerness to succeed , we often forget them . |
| 16 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 17 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 18 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 19 | Most of them are hard man . |
| 20 | and only seventeen of them are full time . |
| 21 | none of them are full thoroughbred , they are all ⅞thbred so therefore a bit hardier . |
| 22 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
| 23 | That the work of many of them is first class is without question , but it is an achievement against great odds . |
| 24 | ‘ In the best romantic tradition , the most important thing for both of them is each other . |
| 25 | Your views on which of them is right will , of course , be coloured by your own religious beliefs . |
| 26 | One of them is that expertise conveys the ability to help with public decision making . |
| 27 | One of them , this is not the first in the but one of them is that democracy may well throw up unworthy rulers . |
| 28 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 29 | The most obvious example of them is third person pronouns ( she/her/hers/herself ; he/him/his/himself ; it/its/itself ; they/them/their/ theirs/themselves ) . |
| 30 | Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine , and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston . |