Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 2 | Part Time Careers accepts applicants up to age 62 and handles jobs for accountants , book-keepers and secretaries , of whom those with up-to-date experience on electronic typewriters and word processors are easiest to place . |
| 3 | In a sense , the patrolling constable blended in as part of this hidden social group , of whom most of the city 's population were largely ignorant . |
| 4 | The union , and that means the general committee elected by the club as well as the professional staff appointed by the committee , are working for the benefit of everyone involved in the game in Wales . |
| 5 | It is not meant to be the Curriculum Vitae of everyone involved in writing the thing ! |
| 6 | Health professionals need to move beyond the traditional view of adoption as the province of social workers and recognise their responsibility to promote the wellbeing of everyone involved in the adoption process . |
| 7 | ‘ We look forward to the commitment and co-operation of everyone involved in the system . ’ |
| 8 | This plan was an impossibility from the outset , and after several months of confused meetings of everyone concerned at County Hall , I went with two or three others to see the Secretary of State to recommend strongly that one single statutory authority should be appointed to deal with the area . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could spare time for a fitting , and I did think it would be a good idea if I could hold a rehearsal of everyone concerned in my part of the show before the official one . |
| 10 | the name and address of everyone resident in the property who will be 18 or over on or before 1st April 1990 . |
| 11 | She died soon afterwards , keeping her hatred of me alive in her heart , and no one at Gateshead cried for her . |
| 12 | I am coming more and more to the view that the evolution of life , like the evolution of continents and of the stratigraphical column in general , has been a very episodic affair , with short " happenings " interrupting long periods of nothing much in particular . |
| 13 | They 'd stopped on their way across the marble floor , both of them blue-white in the lights and the fog . |
| 14 | It included cartoons of them house-hunting in Katmandu and the children building sandcastles on holiday in Wales . |
| 15 | Clark demonstrates that older people tried , where possible , to set up contractually based arrangements ( some of them enforceable through the courts ) to secure their livelihood and care in old age , through a system whereby they surrendered some of their rights to their land to a specified individual , in return for agreed services — ‘ individually arranged pension benefits ’ ( ibid . |
| 16 | Research projects , many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence , have been funded by ESRC , SERC , ESPRIT and BRAIN in such areas as natural language understanding and computational neuroscience . |
| 17 | So now he had in all 10,025.07 votes , 1,118.07 of them surplus to the quota . |
| 18 | Huge amber clouds — ‘ symbols of a high romance ’ — floated across a brilliant blue sky , and the sun went down dramatically with vertical shafts of crimson , fake flames behind the pine trees , the birds — many of them new to her — still shouting after dark . |
| 19 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 20 | And the er there 's there 's er one one of them two of them had to close down . |
| 21 | Two things that make a people a top earner here of course is one of them one of them in addition to graft , is that they wo n't sit back and sign up one deal and be very satisfied in a day . |
| 22 | No one of them one of them |
| 23 | Now , meantime , until this happy state of affairs has been reached and we can devolve these responsibilities , we continue to support individual artists directly ourselves , through a variety of schemes , all of which I like to think relate to making more of them accessible to the public . |
| 24 | When tapes come into me I have a listen to the beginning and end of them all to sort of see what sort of quality they are |
| 25 | Either that , or they may have practised the oldest and surest method of them all for preventing unwanted pregnancies — abstinence from sexual relations . |
| 26 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 27 | And how was it possible for a man with cardiac problems to win the greatest tennis crown of them all at Wimbledon in 1975 ? |
| 28 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 29 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 30 | Most of them all in hessian sack , |