Example sentences of "of which he [verb] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to Pembroke , of which he had been elected a fellow in 1899 , he became librarian and lecturer in Slavonic studies in 1901 . |
| 2 | He had held sway at the College for 45 years , for 40 of which he had been assisted by his faithful subordinate William Sewell who now , at the age of 58 , was to succeed his master as Professor . |
| 3 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 4 | The execution ended a case which had aroused intense public interest , not least because of strong evidence that Coleman was innocent of the crime of which he had been convicted . |
| 5 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 6 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 7 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 8 | The dilemma of which he spoke was felt by filmmakers as they sought to make films that dealt with the pressing contemporary issues , at a time when the initiative in world affairs had passed decisively to the Americans . |
| 9 | ( d ) Warnings Section 2(4) ( a ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he has been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 10 | Chalmers 's family has maintained that he is innocent of the charges of which he has been convicted , and say they will continue to fight to prove it . |
| 11 | When he believes that Tom is not guilty of the rape of which he has been accused , we know that Tom is innocent so when he is found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell , it is quite clear that the decision had been heavily prejudiced . |
| 12 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 13 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |