Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the outstanding men who first made their name in the amateur game , turned professional — Tilden , Perry , Budge , Gonzales ‘ Sedgman , Trabert , and then Rosewall , Hoad , and finally Rod Laver . |
| 2 | Mr Stone seems fond of the bizarre dynastic arrangements he studies , tending to deplore the rise of the Arab families who are transforming politics in Honduras ( and , for that matter , in Ecuador and Argentina and Brazil ) . |
| 3 | Of the eleven families who had more than one member holding land in 1575 no less than nine were still in the village in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 5 | The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain . |
| 6 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 7 | Exiled for the second time and without the support of many of the Castilian knights who had followed him before , Rodrigo once again displayed his qualities of a great commander . |
| 8 | Of the six patients who underwent intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation and were discharged from hospital after transplantation two are alive , the four others having died at 10 weeks , 31 , 42 , and 61 months . |
| 9 | Five of the six patients who had not undergone operation were staged by computed tomography and bone marrow biopsy . |
| 10 | Of the six patients who had previously had gall stone recurrence , five ( 83% ) developed a further recurrence during the trial compared wth 16 recurrences in the 76 patients who had not previously had recurrent stones ( 21% ) . |
| 11 | Many of the political appointees who will find themselves ‘ displaced persons ’ tomorrow arrived in Washington DC as ambitious thirtysomethings and are being tossed-out over-the-hill in their late forties and early fifties . |
| 12 | The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism . |
| 13 | ‘ Hoskyns ’ , said one of the astringent colleagues who disapproved of him , ‘ went to Berlin and they muddled his mind and when he came back he could never get it unmuddled . ’ |
| 14 | But Smith 's name is unfamiliar even to many of the professional mathematicians who make regular use of the ideas he introduced . |
| 15 | Er all this takes a lot of effort on a lot of people 's parts and we 're very fortunate today to have three of the professional men who are doing the bulk of the work present with us and their wives . |
| 16 | Over the next few months it is likely that the Home Office will order out hundreds more of the 3,500 Kurds who arrived in May and June and now live in north London . |
| 17 | The small scale of its activities was always mentioned : it was estimated that of the 30,000 boys who annually left London elementary schools , not more than 2% came under its influence and that of similar organizations . |
| 18 | The Kirkwoods had to sell their horses , had to endure the slow oncoming tread of gentility in all its shabbiness , to watch the encroaching , ever-drawing-near of the Irish natives who had long been in the tenure and service of the Great House , and now never would be again . |
| 19 | Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain . |
| 20 | Of the minority of the working classes who were Methodists by 1815 even after the growth surge which began in the 1790s , most were not members of the forming industrial proletariat . |
| 21 | An adequate knowledge of the existence , timing , and source of postcoital pills was shown by 52 ( 30% ) of the 171 patients who had recognised a potential contraceptive failure and 25 ( 12% ) of the 210 who had not used any contraception — that is , 77 ( 20% ) of the 381 patients who might have benefited from their use . |
| 22 | The policies of the Liberal Democrats who sit as councillors on the Oxford City and County Councils are well known and set out in our elections leaflets . |
| 23 | These have been kept at bay for 40 years by the power and special pleading of the vested interests who are right now busily working out how to control the new Heritage Agency . |
| 24 | That we the undersigned , wish to protest at the current activities of the major brewers who are increasing bar prices or forcing tenants out of their businesses and homes . |
| 25 | James , one of the best writers who out of love for the old detective story has taken it and made something more of it , once summed it up very neatly . |
| 26 | The ‘ beware ’ is aimed most urgently at women , the chosen workforce of the multinational corporations who have begun setting up shop in Western ‘ enterprise zones ’ . |
| 27 | By the end of the healing phase , 19 ( 0.99% ) of the 1923 patients who had fulfilled the entry criteria had failed to heal : the time to healing was 12 weeks in 76 patients ( 3.95% ) , 24 weeks in 29 patients ( 1.51% ) , and greater than 24 weeks in seven patients ( 0.36% ) . |
| 28 | This is especially true of the female workers who constituted the bulk of the textile labour force throughout the prewar period , at a time when textiles were the key to exports and industrial growth . |
| 29 | Only in two of the 93 patients who had both endoscopy and colonic assessment was colonic neoplasia ( in each case a small <5 mm adenoma ) found to coexist with an upper gastrointestinal lesion ( a gastric ulcer and grade 2 oesophagitis ) . |
| 30 | Of the 198 respondents who did not intend to purchase a catalogue , 157 ( 79% ) went on to give their reasons . |