Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The Chinese population , for many of whom existing poverty was compounded by the effects of war , were treated with the utmost contempt and ruthlessness . |
| 3 | Since then , the ‘ Willowgate ’ scandal over the illegal sale of cars has brought down five cabinet ministers , one of whom committed suicide . |
| 4 | The father of these children are one or other of the mother 's first two husbands , the first of whom ( from whom she was divorced in 1976 ) has played no part in their lives at least since 1980 , and the second of whom committed suicide in 1984 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If that had been the case , then he could at least have received finance in the eighties when rich and influential independent figures such as Steven Spielberg , Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty — all of whom professed admiration for Welles — had the chance to help him get a film financed and passed . |
| 7 | ‘ I come up with some of me 'ome-made sausage and onion pie fresh out of me oven . |
| 8 | I mean , some of me favourite TV programmes start at 8 p.m . |
| 9 | I got thrown out of me previous room this morning , on account of owings . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A regular icosahedron : a solid having 20 plane faces , all of them equilateral triangles . |
| 13 | Cos it 's got all the them extra wo got all of them extra ones in . |
| 14 | A festival held to revive the art attracted hundreds of people , many of them complete novices . |
| 15 | The prison 's 1,300 inmates — many of them political detainees — were reported to have been released . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 18 | ‘ One of them young teds , I ‘ spect . ’ |
| 19 | Seven people , most of them young people and all from the Protestant community , were murdered , and murdered for exercising one of the most fundamental rights of all — the right to work . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In front of them lay marshlands . |
| 22 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 27 | The restoration is taking place in public , so you can actually see the volunteer restorers , some of them ex-Vickers employees , in action . |
| 28 | One or two of the men greeted Kalchu with nods and comments and several of them expressed surprise that I was coming with them . |
| 29 | Nearly all of them expressed unhappiness or discontent , particularly teenager Anne , who was threatening to leave home . |
| 30 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |