Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I I think my honourable friend , if I followed him er is confusing two things , er because erm er what we , he was beginning by talking about er are what we will come to in the regulations er which is the right of citizens of other er member countries to vote in the country of which they 're not a citizen to vote . |
| 2 | Poems can be self-sufficient , leaning on no reality outside themselves other than the history and usage of the words out of which they are made . |
| 3 | The Services themselves are living organisms that , like the human beings of which they are composed , develop slowly , each generation handing on its accumulated wisdom and experience to the next . |
| 4 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 5 | Biologists try to interpret the structures they see as performing some function , subject to the constraints set by the materials of which they are made , and the conditions under which they must operate . |
| 6 | In today 's Nature , Professor Stephen Mann and Dr Jon Didymus from Bath University , working with Dr Young and colleagues at the Natural History Museum , have found that in spite of their varied appearance , the chalk crystals of which they are built are organised in the same way at the atomic level . |
| 7 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 8 | Indeed , many of the complex molecules of which they are composed would be liable to fall apart . |
| 9 | In practice , the chromosomes are visible only during cell division , when the DNA of which they are mainly composed , contracts . |
| 10 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 11 | Only when the public comes to a fuller understanding of the place of the mentally handicapped in our society , and appreciates what mentally handicapped people are really like and what they can achieve , will real progress be made in their integration back into the society of which they are a part . |
| 12 | This will become increasingly important as efforts continue to integrate mentally handicapped people into the society of which they are a part , to reverse the policy of segregation begun in the last century . |
| 13 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 14 | It is impossible to regard the vast buildings and their dependencies which constitute a chief terminal station of a great line of railway without feelings of inexpressible astonishment at the magnitude of the capital and the boldness of the enterprise which are manifested in the operations of which they are the stage . |
| 15 | The lavas of which they are built appear to come from three separate source areas . |
| 16 | Many authorities provide in their Standing Orders for the attendance of councillors at meetings of committees of which they are not members where they have a particular interest in certain matters on the agenda . |
| 17 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 18 | The strong diagonal wind allowed little more than a glimpse of the sweeping crossfield passing game of which they are capable . |
| 19 | Quite how individual that voice could become is underlined in the surest possible way in his later Corelli Variations Op. 42 of 1931 : the monumental is the very stuff of which they are made . |
| 20 | For example , Ronald and Daphne could be using Daphne 's expression of anger not only to protect Ronald from knowing about his own anger , but also to protect them both from underlying depressed feelings of which they are even more afraid . |
| 21 | Most elderly people like to make a cup of tea for a visitor , and this should always be accepted with pleasure ; for eating and drinking with somebody else is another of life 's important shared experiences , of which they are deprived if they live alone . |
| 22 | Person-to-person counselling can lead older people to question socially constructed ideas about old age , and encourage them to take a more direct and active part in a society of which they are still full members . |
| 23 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 24 | ONCE again , Arena failed to turn in the level of performance of which they are undoubtedly capable as they struggled to overcome a depleted but game Novas ' side 54–47 in the men 's division of the Mid-Essex Gravel League . |
| 25 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 26 | The Wagner Report set the goal that residential care should offer a positive experience : ‘ actively aimed at providing every resident with the highest quality of life of which they are capable and indeed a better life than would be open to them in any other environment ’ ( ibid. , p. 8 ) . |
| 27 | On commencing work on a project they receive their normal , weekly Unemployment Benefit ( according to status and dependants ) plus the sum of £10.00 out of which they are expected to spend up to £4.00 on travel to work costs . |
| 28 | On commencing work on a project they receive their normal , weekly unemployment Benefit ( according to status and dependants ) plus the sum of £10.00 out of which they are expected to spend up to £4.00 on travel to work costs . |
| 29 | We then consider some of the current and future implications of past changes and of those still to come , both for individuals who survive into what is commonly called old age and for the wider society of which they are a part . |
| 30 | Site-specific works invariably manifest a value judgment about the larger context of which they are a part . |