Example sentences of "of which the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant . |
| 2 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 3 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 4 | I must admit therefore that there is one passage in this otherwise consummate design ( A Fruit Dish ) of which the meaning escapes me . |
| 5 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 6 | My essay will trace the pattern of references to other literary sources of which the author herself was sometimes no more than subliminally aware . |
| 7 | It is one of which the neighbourhood , for all its prestige , is proud , with an excellent academic record as well as a vigorous ‘ Home and School Association ’ — the forerunner of Parent-Teacher Associations . |
| 8 | As Churchland ( 1988 , p. 37 ) has put it , ‘ what is important for mentality is not the matter of which the creature is made , but the structure of the internal activities which that matter contains ’ . |
| 9 | The causal theory of perception relates the object and contents of perception in two directions : there is an afferent limb connecting the object with the nervous system in which perception is generated ; and an efferent limb in virtue of which the neural events ‘ reach out to ’ or ‘ are about or of ’ the object . |
| 10 | Longer term financial and quality improvements were to follow major station redevelopment schemes , including profitproducing office and retail elements , of which the redevelopment of Liverpool Street and for which new plans were announced in 1986 is a good example . |
| 11 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 12 | His Anatomical and Mechanical Lectures on Dancing ( 1723 ) described the four movements ‘ of which the body is capable ’ , namely : to bend , to stretch , to rise or raise , to rotate or turn . |
| 13 | Correctly practised such movements ensure that each dancer can perform in many different ways the four vital movements of which the body is capable ( the legs may be turned in or out ) , viz. to bend , stretch , rise and rotate . |
| 14 | While seeking more financial support for the final leg of another project — that of connecting New York and Newfoundland by cable — Gisborne held discussions with American entrepreneur Cyrus Field , in the course of which the Atlantic cable was mentioned . |
| 15 | Together they are a vital , but a very scarce resource : police centralisation , of which the Federation disapproves , could help optimise the use of available talent . |
| 16 | The man said his group held 64 documents relating to IRA suspects in the Irish Republic and claimed the group had members in every police sub-division , of which the RUC has 38 . |
| 17 | The man claimed the group had members in every police sub-division , of which the RUC has 38 . |
| 18 | But it was Golani 's night , even when hidden by scores that sprawled along a row of eight music stands , of which the eighth always stayed empty — just another of those little unexplained things . |
| 19 | In 1940 the National Council of Social Service called together the chief national voluntary societies that were concerned with old people and invited as observers the government departments involved by statute in their care , of which the most prominent were the Ministry of Health and the Assistance Board . |
| 20 | This is the cue for the survivors — a young Contra ( Mark Hadfield ) and his prisoner ( Christian Dixon ) — to embark on an odyssey in the course of which the psychological balance of power gradually shifts . |
| 21 | The question now is whether this openness , of which the common access protocol Tramp is a crucial component , will set the standard for cooperation between London 's fragmented futures and options exchanges . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 23 | McMahon strove to retaliate but was denied by an advance by Jaroslaw Bako of which the maestro at the other end would have been proud . |
| 24 | Then there was the three-sided live LP , Big World ( 1986 ) , during the recording of which the audience was asked to observe silence . |
| 25 | Kicking him back to his feet , his nephew Stefan galvanises an urge in him to survive and thrive , the progress of which the play charts over the next four decades . |
| 26 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 27 | Politicians tend to act from baser motives , of which the strongest of all is an instinct for their own survival . |
| 28 | The page reproduced in the Sinn Fein newspaper also refers to the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , an organisation the existence of which the Government still does not officially admit . |
| 29 | The political centre suffered a series of heart attacks from 1905 onwards , of which the body of society as a whole was only to become fully aware after 1928 . |
| 30 | Military violence had led to civil coercion in many forms , of which the Secret police in peacetime was the most notorious example . |