Example sentences of "of which [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by site alone , 83 per cent could be due to venous disorders , and 10 per cent to arterial insufficiency — a disproportionate number of which affected male patients . |
| 2 | The rich farming land surrounding the city determined the city , s development as a market town , with its regular cattle and produce sales , neither of which attracted Jewish merchants . |
| 3 | Five experimental words were chosen ; four of which had four senses and the remaining word three . |
| 4 | I was running along the pavement of Rochdale Road , just after midnight , wearing , among other things , two quilted anoraks , one of which had fourteen pounds of sand sewn into the lining . |
| 5 | There were rows and rows of cheaply printed books of weird poetry about erotic fantasies all of which had close links with LSD … |
| 6 | He also wrote about three dozen plays and seventeen musicals , several of which had long runs , including Crutch and Toothpick ( 1879 ) and especially The Lights o' London ( 1881 ) . |
| 7 | From here I went to the Asprey , Mallett of Bourdon House , and S J Phillips stands , all of which had many treasures I coveted . |
| 8 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 9 | One expression of this unity is the growth of great interstate sanctuaries , many of which had four-yearly festivals and games open to all Greeks . |
| 10 | Martin recorded several plants which indicated diuretic properties , some of which had purgative effects , and others which ‘ cured the fluxes ’ , such as the syrup of bilberries . |
| 11 | The 19th century witnessed the evolution of public and saloon bars ; the introduction of bar , or counter , rather than waiter , service ; and the legal licensing of premises , all of which had profound effects on pub design . |
| 12 | The Chicago SO/levine ( RCA ) , and the LPO/Tennstedt ( EMI ) , are particular favourite of mine , both of which combine superb sonics , sumptuous orchestral playing , and interpretative warmth in near-ideal proportions . |
| 13 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 14 | Adam swiftly read the titles , most of which contained romantic words like ‘ love ’ , ‘ heart ’ , ‘ arrow ’ , ‘ passionate ’ , ‘ fire ’ , ‘ dream ’ , ‘ kiss ’ , and ‘ enchanted ’ . |
| 15 | It 's not like opposing nuclear reactors or toxic waste dumps , each one of which poses new risks to new areas . |
| 16 | This may seem simple but , as I shall try to show , it involves a series of steps , each of which poses difficult problems . |
| 17 | .. ’ . The second is completed by specifying a position or role the occupier of which possesses certain rights and duties , and which the consent purports to allow Y to occupy . |
| 18 | There is one elementary truth , the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans ; and the moment one definitely commits oneself , then Providence moves too . |
| 19 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 20 | The major serial publications of the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) are the Bulletin , and the Professional Papers , each of which contain externally-refereed papers of comparable standard to any non-government publications . |
| 21 | The roundel is " supported " by the intrusion of large triangles into the field , three of which contain distinctive motifs . |
| 22 | Annelid worms are made up of body segments , each of which contain reproductive cells . |
| 23 | Yet these same people do not deem it improper to call on white people to get involved in other Black national , local or personal struggles , some of which reveal nasty aspects of oppression . |
| 24 | The same is true of voluntary work , much of which involves concrete skills such as typing , driving , accountancy or teaching others technical skills . |
| 25 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 26 | Various regional movements emerged , some of which became political parties . |
| 27 | Such views are very different from those that would be associated with behaviourism or epiphenomenalism , neither of which allows mental states any causal role in the production of behaviour . |
| 28 | The nuclear industry produces waste streams which contain a variety of radioactive metal ions , the extraction of which minimises radioactive discharges . |
| 29 | Fierce competition between the major tour operators in Britain , Germany and Scandinavia produced advantageous deals with airlines and hotels ; there were better and more economical aircraft , and less financial restrictions , all of which produced cheaper holidays . |
| 30 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |