Example sentences of "[noun] of which [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 But there is also a more general competition and conflict among nation states , some aspects of which I discussed in Chapter 5 , that has proved so far impossible to overcome , or even to moderate substantially .
2 Satraps led contingents from their satrapies in the great battles against Greeks or Macedonians of which we hear in Herodotus or the Alexander-historians ; they also levied troops for less grand operations .
3 Conversely , reputable composers became more interested in popular music , the tunes of which they preserved in keyboard or lute arrangements and as themes for instrumental variation or even for Masses .
4 Thus in some sense everything is mentally internalised , retained and inwardly possessed ; that is our only defence against complete discontinuity in living , a distressing example of which we see in the man who loses his memory , and is consciously uprooted ’
5 In England and Wales the position is now governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , section 78 , the terms of which we encountered in the previous chapter .
6 More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter .
7 Pindown was a serious professional failure , but was a hundred miles removed from the level of criminal activity of which we heard in the recent trial .
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