Example sentences of "of which [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting with the first , place the following in the chronological order of which they were President of the Cambridge Union : Leon Brittan , Norman Lamont , John Selwyn Gummer , Kenneth Clarke . |
| 2 | If a court bailiff fails to effect service , a notice of non-service ( N 216 ) is sent by the court of which he is bailiff to the plaintiff or other party issuing the process ( Ord 7 , rr 2 – 6 ) . |
| 3 | And by his career plan he should have been finished and out of here by now , instead of which he 's way over time on fixed-price job and his prospects of retirement at thirty-five are receding now even faster than they were before . |
| 4 | On Oct. 8 , police surrounded the premises of the International Foundation for Social , Economic and Political Research ( Gorbachev Foundation ) of which he was head after a presidential decree of Oct. 7 returned control of the building to the Russian government . |
| 5 | This he did by hard work , love for cricket and an exceptional organizing ability , which in 1953 resulted in the founding of the Danish Cricket Association of which he was chairman for 18 years . |
| 6 | Other national platforms for his views and activities were the Council of Church Missioners to the Deaf and Dumb , of which he was chairman from 1927 for eighteen years ; the Central Advisory Council for the Spiritual Care of the Deaf and Dumb on which he served for forty-four years , and the Joint Examination Board ( later renamed " The Deaf Welfare Examination Board " ) of which he was a founder member . |
| 7 | He was the founder in 1864 of the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society and , with the aid of public subscriptions , responsible for the building of the Liverpool Institute for the Adult Deaf and Dumb , of which he was Secretary for sixty years . |
| 8 | He helped establish the Liverpool Medical Society ( of which he was secretary from 1833 and president 1836–8 ) and also the Liverpool Medical Institution ( becoming in 1840 its first secretary ) . |
| 9 | He emerged as a wine merchant in Pall Mall ; respectability and civic office came by way of his membership of the Vintners ' Company , of which he was master in 1768 . |
| 10 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 11 | One by one the modest properties of which he was landlord in County Mayo and Galway began to show a satisfactory return . |
| 12 | A founder member of the Royal Astronomical Society ( RAS ) , he donated the livings of Hartwell and Stone — of which he was Lord of the Manor — to the society with a view to the promotion of astronomy in connection with theology ( he also founded the Lee Fund for the relief of widows and children of deceased fellows of the RAS ) . |
| 13 | Already by the time of Mortmain , however , the problem was less about donations of land to the religious houses than the purchase of land by them , but this too was curtailed more by monastic poverty than by statute ; in fact the king not long after this had to ban houses of which he was patron from selling their endowments . |
| 14 | He founded two cycling associations — the North Road Cycling Club and Cyclists ' Road Records Association , of which he was President for nearly 30 years — an unique achievement for a deaf man in a mainly hearing organisation . |
| 15 | In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ . |
| 16 | He was an active member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , the Institution of Civil Engineers , and the Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers , of which he was president in 1917 . |
| 17 | Harmer had a long association with the Museums Association , of which he was president in 1904 , becoming an honorary member in 1922 . |
| 18 | His fellowships and honours were numerous and included membership of the Iron and Steel Institute , the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , the Royal Institution , and the Institute of Refrigeration , of which he was president in 1914–15 . |
| 19 | In addition I have learnt an enormous amount from the monthly meetings of the Education Network in London , of which I was Coordinator from 1983 to 1987 . |