Example sentences of "of which we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was most clearly shown by Paul Dirac 's formulation of the general principles of quantum theory , of which we shall give some account in the following chapter . |
| 2 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 3 | Into the vacancy in men 's minds left by the retreat of the centennial myths of Christianity , crept strange cults and substitute faiths , some of which we shall look at in chapter ten . |
| 4 | Saussure speaks of semiology ( 1974 : 16 ) as a ‘ science that studies the life of signs within society ’ , a science of which we shall hear more in the chapter on modern French structuralism . |
| 5 | He first isolated pure lines of eight paired traits ; of which we shall confine ourselves to the lines of tall ’ and ‘ short ’ peas . |
| 6 | Other tribal cosmologies exhibit analogous features some of which we shall consider later . |
| 7 | Before we can proceed further we have to grasp a fundamental distinction which the Zande draw between two kinds of occult power , the first of which we shall call ‘ sorcery ’ and the second ‘ witchcraft ’ . |
| 8 | There were , and still are of course , immense difficulties in the way of quantifying human phenomena , some of which we shall touch on later . |
| 9 | This was our ‘ Marche Képi Blanc ’ , on completion of which we would have passed the tests to become legionnaires . |
| 10 | With many populations we are already aware that the units fall into sub-groups of which we would wish to take account in any sampling . |
| 11 | ‘ We too have nothing , not even the freedom he sings of which we would like . |
| 12 | Nor does he consider that animal behaviour might provide us with prototypes of human understanding on the basis of which we might consider something akin to different language-games , reflecting both the similarities and the differences implicit in the respective cases . |
| 13 | TENSE , the grammatical expression of time , is a source of two distinct kinds of problem , each of which we should consider . |
| 14 | The first of these concerns the attempt to construct a general theoretical framework in terms of which we can answer the ‘ limited ’ particular questions of the second . |
| 15 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 16 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 17 | We have discovered a connection , they will say , on the basis of which we can predict . |
| 18 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
| 19 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 20 | We have set a target date of 31 December 1987 for all submissions on the basis of which we will construct 12 year implementation programmes . |