Example sentences of "of [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NCB had a chairman , Mr Ian McGregor , of whom the Prime Minister approved . |
| 2 | In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls . |
| 3 | She had three brothers , of whom the eldest was Walter Sickert [ q.v. ] , the artist . |
| 4 | Maleczek has shown that from Innocent 's sixth year in office , 1203 – 4 , as the reign progressed , the pope worked more and more with a smaller group of cardinals , of whom the key members were Hugolinus , Pelagius and Guala , and there was less consultation of the whole college . |
| 5 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 6 | He explained that it was a unanimous decision by Butcher , senior coach Alan Jones and second-team coach John Steele , that Maynard , a gifted but erratic player of whom the best has probably not been seen , should have the chance . |
| 7 | The support staff is tiny in comparison with that of a Cabinet Minister or US President — about eighty staffworking in Downing Street of whom the great majority ( about sixty ) are clerical and secretarial staff , messengers , clerks , or administrators of the machine . |
| 8 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 9 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 10 | The twins were divided into four test groups : twin with ulcerative colitis , healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had ulcerative colitis , twin with Crohn 's disease , and healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had Crohn 's disease . |
| 11 | The twins were divided into four test groups : twin with ulcerative colitis , healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had ulcerative colitis , twin with Crohn 's disease , and healthy twins from discordant twin pairs of whom the affected ones had Crohn 's disease . |
| 12 | Another Select Committee reported in 1875 that ‘ the continued operation of the Deer Removal Act 1851 ’ would ‘ render the rights of common existing over the New Forest worthless , and by so doing … extinguish a large class of small freeholders and tenants of whom the highest character has been given ’ ; furthermore it would ‘ destroy almost the only specimen left in England of a primeval forest , a priceless source of enjoyment to all classes of the nation ’ . |
| 13 | From 1877 , to receive a little more income , the School accepted School Board Foundationers , of whom the first was John Dunville . |
| 14 | In his Liber Revelationum , Book I , chapter 6 , he gives some account of his father 's character , and he relates stories concerning his grandfather Ailsi and his uncles , Jordan 's brothers , of whom the two eldest , Bernard and Nicholas , were scriptores in the royal chapel in the time of Henry I. Peter also mentions his kinship by marriage to Reginald de Dunstanvill , Earl of Cornwall ; whence it has been conjectured that Peter 's mother was a sister of the earl 's wife , Beatrice , daughter of William Fitz Richard of Cardinan , the most important of the local nobility . |
| 15 | The report rejected the idea of two distinct groups of children , the handicapped and the non-handicapped , of whom the former had special education and the latter just education . |
| 16 | Three years after Guntram 's death , however , Childebert himself died , leaving two sons , Theudebert II ( 596 – 612 ) and Theuderic II ( 596 – 613 ) , of whom the former had already in 589 been given a sub-kingdom of the cities of Soissons and Meaux , at the request of some of the leading citizens — development pregnant with implications for the future . |
| 17 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 18 | Official statistics released on April 17 showed that 2,188 people , of whom the overwhelming majority were Serbs , had emigrated from Kosovo during 1989 . |
| 19 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 20 | Batting was a hazardous business against another variation of the West Indian pace quartet of whom the quickest was Linden Joseph . |
| 21 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 22 | Indeed , of the category of " male part-timers " , 40 per cent are accounted for by men with temporary jobs , of whom the large majority ( 78 per cent ) are in seasonal , temporary or casual jobs . |
| 23 | or , William ( 1617–1701 ) , MP , was baptized at St Peter le Poer , London , 10 April 1617 , the eldest of the ten children ( five sons and five daughters ) , of whom the last three died in childhood , of Sir Henry Garraway [ q.v. ] , draper and lord mayor of London in 1639–40 , of Broad Street , London , and his wife Margaret , daughter of Henry Clitherow , merchant of London . |
| 24 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 25 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 26 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 27 | It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one . |
| 28 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 29 | Of the two of them the young Job Centre man looked the more hot and worried . |
| 30 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |