Example sentences of "of [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 32 | In April 1945 , while the division was stationed near Graz under the command of the SS Gen Freytag , it was joined from Berlin by Gen Pavel Shandruk , President of the German-sponsored Ukrainian National Committee and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army ( of which the 1st Ukrainian Division was the most important component ) . |
| 33 | But it was Golani 's night , even when hidden by scores that sprawled along a row of eight music stands , of which the eighth always stayed empty — just another of those little unexplained things . |
| 34 | Lucky , too , are children whose path through the complexities of the Old Testament can be made so comparatively straight by The Children 's Bible in 365 Stories , of which the third pack is now available for both Old Testament ( TS379 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 28 minutes ) and New Testament ( TS383 — two cassettes ; 2 hours 11 minutes ) . |
| 35 | Thus the offensive , in support of which the last series of raids by the SAS had been carried out , was a failure . |
| 36 | A good example from the field of librarianship is the Library Association 's series British librarianship and information work , of which the last edition covered the years 1981–5 . |
| 37 | of which the last began : |
| 38 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 39 | Artaria & Co published the six ‘ Haydn ’ quartets , of which the last three were K.458 in B flat , known as the ‘ Hunt ’ because of its ‘ hunting-style finale ; K.464 in A , and K.465 in C , the remarkable ‘ Dissonance ’ Quartet , so-called because of its intensely chromatic slow introduction . |
| 40 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |
| 41 | The unc algorithm resolves A into the product unc as above , and then multiplies the factors in reverse order to obtain a new matrix B. Since unc and then unc is a similar transform of A. B is , in general , a fully populated matrix of which the last column is that of R1 ( thus A14 reappears in B ) and the last row that of L1 multiplied by x44 . |
| 42 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 43 | Of which the last is bravery , for he knows |
| 44 | Perhaps the most successful rendering was that of the fifth poem of ‘ Landscapes ’ , entitled ‘ Cape Ann ’ , which he read with great gusto and of which the last line ‘ The palaver is finished ’ produced a ripple of pleasure . |
| 45 | The simplest transfer of control instruction is , of course , the unconditional jump or unconditional branch , after the execution of which the next instruction is taken from the store address specified in the jump instruction . |
| 46 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |
| 47 | But the needs of his body , so long suppressed , caused him to avail himself of her a second time , and towards the end he felt himself impregnate her . |
| 48 | She had seen little of him the first two days . |
| 49 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 50 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 51 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 52 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 53 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 54 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 55 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 56 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 57 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 58 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 59 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 60 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |