Example sentences of "of [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only three well-executed monuments have been identified as by Stanley , all of them of the 1740s and obviously reminiscent of those by Scheemakers . |
| 2 | If both cooperate ( with each other , not with the authorities ) by refusing to speak , there is not enough evidence to convict either of them of the main crime , and they receive a small sentence for a lesser offence , the Reward for mutual cooperation . |
| 3 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
| 4 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 5 | It will simply be a case of which of the two areas can muster the greatest amount of support in order to secure the development for their own area ! |
| 6 | For once , Our Cilla was utterly biased in her choice of which of the three hopefuls should win Thursday 's star prize : five years of running the country . |
| 7 | Everyone who worked with Laura at this time agrees that , as a fashion editor , she had a sure instinct about forecasting trends , a canny feel for coordinating colour and fabric that was invariably right , and knowledge of which of the latest details could be adapted to the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ look . |
| 8 | This should remind of you of the infinite varieties in any one colour and also set you thinking about texture . |
| 9 | It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive . |
| 10 | Central to those ideals had been — at least since 1922 when Tawney published his Secondary Education for All — the extension of secondary schooling ( although , less precisely , not all of it of the grammar-school variety ) to the whole of the population . |
| 11 | What price a higher handicap for those of us of the bow-legged persuasion . |
| 12 | The limitations in the work and conclusions of those of us of the older generation , may soon be painfully obvious if , in the future there will be an increase in the scale of the work and more opportunities for effective scientific study . |