Example sentences of "of which many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place !
2 The localized ‘ inferior balances ’ — between Sweden and Denmark in the Baltic , between France and the Habsburgs in Germany and Italy — in terms of which many writers and politicians had hitherto thought , were becoming merged in a general balance which covered the whole continent .
3 In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard .
4 Its parents are the European Aster amellus , of which many varieties are grown in gardens , and the Himalayan A. thomsonii , usually represented in British gardens by the dwarf form ‘ Nanus ’ .
5 The kinds of theorisation of classes discussed in Chapter 2 , theorisations concerned with demarcating the working class and the new middle class/ new petty bourgeoisie on Marxist criteria , do not address the problem of assessing the importance of the ‘ classes ’ ( broad collectivities , in my terms ) which are taken to exist in particular social formations — the ‘ classes ’ which are ( more or less consistently ) recognised by the people as such , and to one or other of which many people regard themselves as belonging .
6 As we saw , permissive trends in today 's culture are in part derived from a one-sided and shallow apprehension of Freudian ideas ; but in my view the situation has not been improved by one major distortion of Freud 's thinking of which many analysts and nearly all writers in the social sciences who have used psychoanalytic ideas have been guilty .
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