Example sentences of "of [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was righter than I knew , the school chapel being dedicated to St Francis , of whom the headmistress was a particular devotee . |
| 2 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 3 | Our results pertain to a sample of 101 subjects , in many of whom the birth weight was obtained by maternal recall . |
| 4 | Like him of whom the story ran |
| 5 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
| 6 | Most of the empire for which they were responsible had been settled by people outside the Church of England , of whom the majority were nonconformist Protestants , though there were a fair number of Roman Catholics in Maryland and in the West Indian islands to which Irishmen had gone . |
| 7 | They had two sons of whom the elder , Henry ( 1606–56 , q.v. ) , was clerk of the House of Commons 1639–49 . |
| 8 | In all of this the pollution control officer behaves much like other enforcement agents , of whom the policeman on the street is the best-known example ( Rubinstein , 1973:218 ff. ; Skolnick , 1966:48 ) . |
| 9 | However , to make this feasible commercially he needs to take up to six clients , for each of whom the cost will be about £12,000 . |
| 10 | It was a vow to abstain from theft and oppression and injustice , no less than from heathen practices and witchcraft ; a vow to do no wrong to the Churches of God , nor to injure widows and orphans , of whom the emperor is the chosen protector and guardian . |
| 11 | For they deny the existence of the pagan gods , of whom the Emperor was one ( so that they were guilty of treason as well as irreverence by refusing to acknowledge them ) . |
| 12 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
| 13 | On investigation of an unregistered title ( Chapter 6 ) you 'll have noted the names of owners , against whom the results of land charge searches are noted , and you 'll search against any in respect of whom the seller ca n't give evidence of prior search . |
| 14 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 15 | Thus the effect of containment resembles the unintended power of the subordinates in this play who execute the commands of the powerful and of whom the Governor complains : |
| 16 | Despite a good deal of organized opposition and intrigue from Mozart 's enemies in court circles , of whom the ringleader was probably Antonio Salieri , Figaro was first performed in the Burgtheater on 1 May , 1786 . |
| 17 | He was one of those men of whom the historian Edward Gibbon , who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , reported their disgusting activities ‘ in the decent obscurity of a learned language . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Gandhi was probably the last of the Nehru rulers , of whom the Congress Party is a creation . |
| 19 | We continued unimpeded until I saw ahead of me the drawing-room where I had interviewed Mountbatten , and sitting on one of the sofas with his back to us the unmistakable profile and balding head of Prince Charles . |
| 20 | For both of them the landscape in which they now stood was quite unrelated to any of this . |
| 21 | The public library uniquely affords the expression of all minority views , gives all of them the opportunity of acceptance , or of withering away . |
| 22 | The two remaining horses appeared round the corner , one of them the roan . |
| 23 | For teachers and other educators therefore the effectiveness of the library 's retrieval system is a matter of concern , and for some of them the way in which the retrieval system forces the enquirer to conceptualize his need is in itself a matter for educational as well as bibliothecal decision . |
| 24 | In front of them the valley dropped sharply away from the road . |
| 25 | The years of closure will be very busy ones , and at the end of them the building will have been returned to sound condition , and the garden restored , for the commencement of Waddesdon 's second hundred years . |
| 26 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |
| 27 | She said one of them the sex offender made her and the woman get into a bath of cold water fully-clothed . |
| 28 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 29 | Our present study supports the view that whole protein based diets are clinically effective , as suggested in three previous trials that compared this type of diet with elemental formulas , although in one of them the sample is small and the conclusions are only indicative . |
| 30 | This is particularly noticeable in Picasso 's drastic treatment of the human body in the series of paintings under discussion ; in some of them the subject 's limbs are abruptly truncated . |