Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 900,000 foreigners in Belgium ( of whom one-third came from Africa ) out of a total population of 9,800,000 . |
| 2 | Seven were indigenous whites , of whom six lived in Tower Hamlets , the other three patients being refugees recently arrived from Africa . |
| 3 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 4 | Immediately before the Spanish Conquest in AD 1521 , the Pátzcuaro basin was the focal point of the Postclassic Purépecha ( Tarascan ) Empire , with an estimated population of 60,000–105,000 ( ref. 17 ) , of whom 35,000 lived in Tzintzuntzan on the northeast shore ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 5 | A recent study of mortality among 248,000 US veterans of whom 723 died of leukaemia during 16 years of follow-up shows a significant increase in the risk of leukaemia associated with cigarette smoking , together with a dose response relationship between risk and the amount smoked . |
| 6 | On Jan. 24 Eberhard Diepgen , 49 , was elected mayor of Berlin at the head of a Senate ( cabinet ) comprising eight CDU and seven SPD members , of whom three came from East Berlin . |
| 7 | , Agnes ( 1652–1720 ) , religious autobiographer , was born in Edworth , Bedfordshire , and baptized Ann 1 September 1652 , the youngest of seven children ( of whom three died in infancy ) of John Beaumont , yeoman farmer of Edworth , and his wife Mary Pakes of Pirton , Hertfordshire . |
| 8 | In ‘ What 's In Your Life For Me ? ’ or ‘ And I Do n't Love You ’ or ‘ Into Each Rain Some Life Must Fall ’ or a score of others , Smokey thinks through the problems of modern love and squeezes music out of them that drips like honey from a spoon . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of them that works on commission just say there 's nothing they can do and call in the tow-truck . ’ |
| 10 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , of course , and what he is seeing in his mind 's eye , after years of study into world-wide distribution of disease in relation to diet , is the stool of someone unlikely to die from cancer of the bowel . |
| 11 | I will not say that the latter reason was not one of my first pulls towards Theosophy . |
| 12 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |
| 13 | Nobody had any problems in finding a space of their own to search in peace . |
| 14 | If mothers had money of their own earmarked for childcare , they could choose whether to use it to ‘ pay ’ themselves or pay someone else — workers in day-care centres , for instance . |
| 15 | In 1588 the Queen levied about eighty , of which thirty came from London . |
| 16 | Twenty years ago there were sixteen Catholic Colleges of Education , of which six survive as colleges of Higher Education . |
| 17 | In the first 11 months of 1991 there were 25,226 asylum applications ( of which 7,197 came from Romania and 5,653 from Yugoslavia ) . |
| 18 | With many of those who replied offering more than one reason , a total of 413 reasons were stated , of which 206 related to Carlyle , 134 to MacLean , 32 to Skinner , and 41 to the exhibitions in general . |
| 19 | The central commission approved seventy schemata , of which seven went to bishops the July before the Council : on the sources of revelation , moral order , the deposit of faith , family and chastity , liturgy , media and unity . |
| 20 | She set off about an hour later , the pockets of her waterproof stocked with chocolate bars against starvation . |
| 21 | He then resumed his rapt attention to Angelina , thus leaving Gwendolen with no option but to try to think of something interesting to say to Oliver Michaels and Samuel Pipkin . |
| 22 | The situation may arise where the taxpayer is on the face of it chargeable to tax under Case V of Schedule D and also caught by Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 23 | Last season he won five of his eight starts in novice hurdles and is a very nice horse with a liking for soft ground . |
| 24 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 25 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 26 | Porter also points out the importance of defining the SBU in terms of the complete network of a value chain within a corporate group irrespective of what that includes in terms of operations in different divisions . |
| 27 | Since the most mesmeric quality of the consumer market is its sheer size , it is important that we try to gain some sense of what this means in terms of hardware and software sales . |
| 28 | Of your own playing with Elvis , what were your favourite , most memorable things ? |