Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the very people of whom Labour Members complain , saying that they do not give a service in Government Departments , almost always belong to unions who support the Labour party ? |
| 2 | They had a numerous family , of whom four sons and four daughters were living in 1878 . |
| 3 | Some 1,200 Italians — most of whom committed atrocities in Yugoslavia — were listed by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , but none was handed over . |
| 4 | The legislature comprises a 212-member Chamber of Deputies elected by a system of proportional representation for a four-year term , and a 182-member Senate , of whom 106 senators are directly elected , 50 are elected by provincial councils , a further 25 are co-opted by the elected members and one Senator by right , the heir to the throne . |
| 5 | They had five sons and five daughters , of whom three sons and four daughters survived infancy . |
| 6 | In July 1795 he married Sarah , the daughter of his first tutor , the Revd George Walker ; they had three sons and seven daughters , of whom three children died young . |
| 7 | There is a unicameral National Assembly of whom 23 members are elected by direct popular vote for five years and two members are appointed by the President . |
| 8 | Legislature : a unicameral National Assembly of whom 23 members are elected by direct popular vote for five years and two are appointed by the President . |
| 9 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
| 10 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 11 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 12 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 13 | It 's like I 'm real light — you know , like one of them silver balloons — and every step I have to be careful not to float off . |
| 14 | A regular icosahedron : a solid having 20 plane faces , all of them equilateral triangles . |
| 15 | Cos it 's got all the them extra wo got all of them extra ones in . |
| 16 | Well when and he was n't on he was n't on , but he he at the towards the end they gave the three of them thirty seconds to describe the go , you know , the qualities of of the |
| 17 | A festival held to revive the art attracted hundreds of people , many of them complete novices . |
| 18 | A 25-year-old man who raped three women , one of them six months pregnant , has been jailed for 12 years . |
| 19 | The prison 's 1,300 inmates — many of them political detainees — were reported to have been released . |
| 20 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 21 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 22 | ‘ One of them young teds , I ‘ spect . ’ |
| 23 | And one of them best lads of the yard used to go up there and meet the year meet them . |
| 24 | Macdonell 's description of a village cricket match against a team of authors , most of them recognizable characters in Squire 's own team , ‘ The Invalids ’ , became required reading . |
| 25 | In front of them lay marshlands . |
| 26 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 27 | In ‘ package transactions ’ , trust banks each buy , say , 100,000 shares of the same 20 stocks — all of them key components of the Nikkei share average . |
| 28 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 29 | He 's one of them educated bastards who would n't know his arse from his elbow on a Friday night in the Bigg Market … |
| 30 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |