Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the sherds ( fig. 14.33c ) appears to be an arm with the skin of the Nemean lion draped over the shoulder and another sherd ( fig. 14.33b ) shows a hand holding a staff or rod being thrust into a creature only the head of which survives on the sherd . |
| 2 | In 1829–31 he erected two wrought-iron suspension bridges , at Scotswood across the Tyne ( demolished 1967 ) and at Whorlton across the Tees , the latter of which survives as the oldest bridge of its type in the country still supported unaided by its original chains . |
| 3 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 4 | A qualified iridologist can identify about 200 different iris markings , each one of which relates to a different area or organ of the body . |
| 5 | The body is divided into zones , each one of which relates to a corresponding zone on the underside of the foot . |
| 6 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 7 | The Rectory , stands a little below the church on the site of an earlier house , some of which remains under the long lean-to at the back . |
| 8 | ‘ The flow of traffic , the majority of which travels within the speed limit and many less than 20mph , would indicate a low priority rating for this road . ’ |
| 9 | There are presently two ways to measure the fine structure constant , a , only one of which depends on the correctness of QED . |
| 10 | The scales on the lower half of the body carry black marks which show up as a black patterning the intensity of which depends on the fish 's mood and condition . |
| 11 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 12 | ( As outlined in section 1.1 , they will orbit around the centre of mass , the position of which depends on the masses M and m . ) |
| 13 | The pulse.shaped output from the detectors have a slight phase displacement , the sign of which depends on the direction of rotation . |
| 14 | Consider the following example , which on the surface is simple to understand , but the precise meaning of which depends upon a careful scrutiny of key words . |
| 15 | Competition is mainly between a small number of large companies , each of which operates across a broad range ; NEC , Hitachi , Toshiba , and Matsushita are companies of this general electronics type — they are vertically integrated , manufacturing the microelectronic components for their own end products . |
| 16 | The intense gravitational field near the black hole causes the creation of pairs of particles and antiparticles , one of which falls into the black hole and the other of which escapes to infinity . |
| 17 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 18 | These three places are equidistant and , if taken to fall on the circumference of a circle , can be seen to form three points of a decagon , the centre of which falls at the hamlet of Whiteleafed Oak , where Worcestershire , Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet . |
| 19 | Bernstein and Reynolds give a very full treatment of the subject , much of which turns on the interpretation of provisions in commercial leases . |
| 20 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 21 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 22 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |
| 23 | With every breath we should take in half a litre of oxygen , twenty per cent of which goes to the brain . |
| 24 | The height of the spliced poles is 88 feet 6 inches , 4 feet 6 inches of which goes into the ground . |
| 25 | It is , therefore , the arc of a great circle , the plane of which passes through the centre of the sphere . |
| 26 | Each of the latter consists of two bundles of fibres , one of which passes to the labrum as the labral nerve , and the other forms the root of the frontal ganglion . |
| 27 | Here , a recently polished elm coffin sits on padded woodworking trestles ; it is in the process of having its chevroned starched linen fringe gimped to the upper edge of the inner lining , a length of which hangs outside the coffin awaiting turning-in , the lid having been temporarily replaced for the purpose of photography . |
| 28 | Each manages to avoid the others by means of a special dividend antenna , one part of which rests on the water surface . |
| 29 | From the high fields , figures come down the track laden with potatoes or with a bundle of mint , the scent of which lingers in the air after them . |
| 30 | As an example , consider a case where two words are combined , the first of which ends with a single final consonant ( which we will call C f ) and the second of which starts with a single initial consonant ( which we will call C i ) ; we can construct a diagram like this : |