Example sentences of "of which [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was a £230,000 ‘ compensation for loss of office ’ , the bulk of which went to the former chief executive , Emmanuel Olympitis , who suddenly departed last month . |
| 2 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 3 | In 1958 and 1959 Uruguay sold 16 per cent of its wool exports to Communist countries , the bulk of which went to the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 5 | The body is divided into zones , each one of which relates to a corresponding zone on the underside of the foot . |
| 6 | A qualified iridologist can identify about 200 different iris markings , each one of which relates to a different area or organ of the body . |
| 7 | Mr Faulks said : ‘ Inside the police found a complete confidence trickster 's set with 26 different charge cards either in the name of Garawand or in the name of Yousefi and ten cheque books , four of which related to the same account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington . ’ |
| 8 | Apart from the works cited in this introduction , some of which refer to the American and Australian literature , there are now two books specifically directed to the analysis of many of these issues within a British context . |
| 9 | The Australian desert , for example , is structurally an ancient worn-down plateau of crystalline and ancient sedimentary rocks , the more resistant of which rise to a thousand metres or more ( a few thousand feet ) above the general surface level . |
| 10 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 11 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |
| 12 | The remainder were in chains , some of which belonged to the national press undertakings . |
| 13 | I advised , my opinion reinforced by Dennis Lloyd , that there was plainly a breach of copyright , since the reports published were to a substantial extent verbatim accounts of the meetings reproduced from the minutes , the copyright of which belonged to the National Executive , and that a judicial remedy should be sought as soon as possible . |
| 14 | all of which calibrate to the Early or Middle Bronze Age ; such a body of evidence can not be chance . |
| 15 | There were none the less growing pressures on the BEA to discipline their own requests for capital through the achievement of a higher rate of return on capital , and higher rates of self-financing , both of which conformed to the Conservative Government 's image of efficient private enterprise industry and ‘ commercial ’ disciplines . |
| 16 | Switzerland is famous for six cheeses , four of which belong to the semi-hard family , although they are sometimes referred to as hard cheeses . |
| 17 | There are , however , four distinct stages in the development of phylloxera , all of which belong to the same Phylloxera vastatrix life-cycle : the sexual , the leaf , the root and the winged form . |
| 18 | All surfaces — dome , drum , pillars , chancel screen and walls are covered in paintings , some of which belong to the fourteenth century building period ( 232 ) . |
| 19 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 20 | European reaction to the sale has been muted ; one London auction house expert pointed to the poor quality of a number of the items illustrated in the publicity material ( items which will apparently be in the sale ) , several of which date to the early years of this century . |
| 21 | The scheme involves replacing buildings , some of which date to the 1930s . |
| 22 | In the new scheme , worldwide sales are divided into three regions each of which report to a new vice-president of worldwide sales . |
| 23 | From the same stable , come two rather different products , both of which conform to the National Curriculum and are well presented additions to the fast improving library of educational software available for the PC : — |
| 24 | In the third year there is a choice of four special subjects in Irish History or Politics , each of which leads to a supervised dissertation in the second term . |