Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
| 2 | Between 1985 and 2025 the population of the developing world is expected to increase from 3.7 billion to 6.8 billion , of whom well over half will live in those hotbeds of aspiration and discontent , the cities . |
| 3 | All contemporary accounts of Constanze 's character , except those originating from Leopold and Nannerl Mozart ( neither of whom ever really accepted her ) , together with the evidence of Mozart 's own letters to her , confirm that she made him as good a wife as he could have wished . |
| 4 | SINA had been an inspired hoax dreamt up by the imaginative Mr Abel ( of whom more presently ) . |
| 5 | Michel Foucault ( 1977 : 130 ) says of penological ‘ classicists ’ such as Beccaria ( of whom more shortly ) that they ‘ saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects , as juridical subjects ’ . |
| 6 | Even little Manuela , of whom more anon , was n't in the Karen Parsons league . |
| 7 | Much remains to be learned of their activities , but what is certain is that they had converts in high places — notably Edward Wood ( of whom more anon ) , Leo Amery , and Lord Hailey of African Survey fame and immense Colonial Office influence — and that through their publication of a journal widely respected for its seriousness they kept before the eyes of the political establishment the idea of a new kind of empire . |
| 8 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 9 | I can totally agree with the woman here just now , what she 's saying but the woman at the back of me just now , she 'd said about lesbianism , this is a different thing entirely . |
| 10 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 11 | They may have driven my mother away , but they wo n't get rid of me so easily . |
| 12 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
| 13 | So you 're gon na get rid of me early today . |
| 14 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 15 | ‘ People would be wrong to think of me as just a centre forward who is good in the air . |
| 16 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 17 | The ghost of my son pursued me yet , his translucent image being reflected from the trunk of every tree , so that it sometimes appeared ahead of me as well as on every side . |
| 18 | Then the other one , whom your sister thinks must be the owner of the farm , apologized for a ‘ case of mistaken identity ’ , as he called it , and got rid of me as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Perhaps that was n't completely true of me any longer . |
| 20 | Altogether it is an exceptional object , and I know of nothing else quite like it within the range of binoculars . |
| 21 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 22 | By way of signing off I 'll try to slip a selection of them through again . |
| 23 | She knew , from reading and from subjection to the media , that she was not alone in her distress : the world was full of nutty housewives , many of them probably just round the corner , since she lived in a district famed countrywide for feminism and madness . |
| 24 | There are ideas here , some of them probably pretty good . |
| 25 | army ammunition , all unfired , and most of them probably still usable . |
| 26 | Open villages , on the other hand , were centres of the rural underworld — some of them notoriously so — and displayed their independence of squirearchal authority not only by engaging in petty criminal activity but by becoming centres of pre-political and political activity which opposed ‘ official ’ values and attitudes . |
| 27 | Many of these were prisoners of war or internees and er we 're very happy to report that these got home after the war and we have many of them here today that were prisoners of war . |
| 28 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 29 | I do n't know what his diagnosis was but I do n't think either of them even vaguely suspected alcohol . |
| 30 | At their wedding , all those years ago , his friends , all of them even then in suits and ties , had nudged each other when he rose to answer his best man . |