Example sentences of "of which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an action for breach of an agreement embodied in a Tomlin order the plaintiff was granted an injunction against the defendants restraining them from ‘ selling disposing or otherwise dealing with seeking to sell dispose or deal with ’ property of which they owned the freehold . |
| 2 | Racists use the group of which they claim membership . |
| 3 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 4 | Parties of twenty or thirty of them were liable to turn up at any Political gathering of which they disapproved , and their chant of " Left-is-right " , added to their readiness to fight anyone who tried to restore order , broke up meeting after meeting . |
| 5 | He recalls that US researchers came up with a list of programmes of which they approved , including The Waltons , and those of which they disapproved , including the old Batman series , with its camp humour and captions saying ‘ Pow ’ when he punched the baddie . |
| 6 | Yes , like many of the others , I happen to be one of the ones who did go up there and take a look at it , erm , at the time , and I hope that the motion as er , not only to the county archivist but all the staff over there for the very hard work and diligent work of which they put in . |
| 7 | Though eugenicists found some ammunition in the Report , of which they sought to take advantage , the medical profession were equally responsive but more influential . |
| 8 | A specific grant allows central government to encourage local authorities to pursue particular policies by making money available only for programmes of which they approve . |
| 9 | Others remembered setting Greek , Latin , other foreign languages and mathematics ( subjects of which they knew nothing , but which were a matter of professional pride ) . |
| 10 | Though some contemporaries based in Francia ( Nithard , and the Astronomer , for instance ) seemed to regard Aquitaine as a faraway country of which they knew little , Charles did not share that view . |
| 11 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 12 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 13 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 14 | Elisabeth recalled the picnic in the bay ; they had grilled plaice on top of a fire in the ashes of which they had baked potatoes . |
| 15 | The report was bitterly criticised by the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine which accused the authors of ‘ many inaccuracies ’ in describing treatments of which they had no first-hand experience . |
| 16 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 17 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
| 18 | They did not want to repudiate totally their previous policies , yet had to recognise the disaster of which they had been part . |
| 19 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 20 | Anyone wishing to buy furniture out of income rather than capital could have it at the cash payment price plus 5 per cent commission , a quarter of which they had to deposit before the goods were delivered . |
| 21 | They used Hilbert 's wine glasses because none of them could tolerate drinking from plastic or cartons but they ate off paper plates of which they had bought a hundred . |
| 22 | Taking the Gengshen Reforms as a sign that political reform was acceptable , they had tried to conduct campaigns along the lines of those in the western world , of which they had some limited knowledge . |
| 23 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 24 | French legionaries have been drowned while encamped in wadis draining from the southern Atlas of Algeria , due to the rapid advance of floods from storms in the high mountains of which they had heard or seen nothing . |
| 25 | Something better than that little house of which they had once spoken . |
| 26 | They wanted to drink , failing a quick thrash with a woman , and then tumble back into the field and race shouting into the forest to make the kill of which they had been unkindly baulked . |
| 27 | Thus the dialogue and its frame emphasize the bond between the two of them , and thereby further underline the horror of the sacrifice of which they speak . |
| 28 | However , the Directive does not apply to holdings in open-ended investment companies or other collective investment undertakings ; nor does it apply to holdings in companies incorporated outside the EC , although such companies which are listed on a stock exchange in a member state must make a public announcement of changes in major holdings of which they become aware ( even though there is no actual notification requirement ) . |
| 29 | She forced the Girls through their paces for a complete day , at the end of which they fell exhausted in a line on a bench . |
| 30 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |