Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] of [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 Forest drive with magnificent views of the volcanic ring of hills of which Slieve Gullion forms a part .
2 Jeanne had the kind of titties of which Mae West would have been proud : large and firm and magnificently rounded .
3 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
4 However , following Hirschi , and from a variety of sources of which Gibbs was only one ( and not a particularly favourably disposed one ) , the neglect of the classical concern with effective deterrence has been fully rectified .
5 Light exposure and the stability of cosmetic products to light may be assessed by methods developed for colour fastness of textiles of which the following is an example : British Standard 1006 : 1978 .
6 But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’
7 In short , we now have a wealth of riches of which we can be proud .
8 He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’
9 He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’
10 In fact the Institute of Directors of which I 'm a member er said er that network marketing 's a thing of the future .
11 According to samples taken by both Greenpeace and the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , the plant is also discharging a range of metals of which authorised levels of zinc , chromium , copper and nickel are all being exceeded .
12 The improvement of teacher practice is influenced by a large range of strategies of which courses are only one .
13 They include businessmen who have never before committed any substantial crime ; people who make their living principally from fraud ; and other professional criminals who engage in a range of crimes of which long-firm fraud is one .
14 Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud .
15 Recovering , he let out a stream of words of which Sandison understood almost nothing .
16 The prominence accorded to certain political actors , institutions , and practices is not simply an outcome of judgements of what is , or is not , somehow intrinsically important .
17 So we might add to the tripartite analysis the fourth condition that nothing can be known which is inferred from a false belief , or from a group of beliefs of which one is false .
18 The fifth and sixth defendants had been employed by a group of companies of which the plaintiffs were a part in senior positions for short periods before being dismissed .
19 Next he turned his attention to the Latin pieces and finally , after a short period ( 1613–16 ) at the Dresden court with its greater resources , produced a group of publications of which the most important is the Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica ( 1619 ) .
20 He urged the zoo authorities to return the attacking elephant to Chester ‘ where there is a social group of elephants of which it is a member ’ .
21 His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant .
22 However , the statement of reasons is not required to specify the often very numerous and complex matters of fact or law dealt with in legislative measures , provided that those measures fall within the general scheme of the body of measures of which they form part .
23 As a result , difficulties in the education service can be explained as the consequence of incidents of which they are probably the cause .
24 As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge .
25 ah group three well they got two it depends on what their criteria is if it 's erm just listening a diary of events of what 's gone on
26 A comedy of aspects of which are to be taken to extremes .
27 ( 4 ) A member of a licensing board shall not act in the granting of a licence in respect of premises of which he is the proprietor , tenant or sub-tenant .
28 A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given .
29 Of the mammalian orders , the insectivores , the ungulates , the Cetacea , the carnivores , and others , each comprises an array of forms of which every one is adapted to a particular habitat with a mode of life enabling it to live and reproduce there .
30 Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) , however , found that ‘ The depiction of objects of which parts are implied as lying beyond the picture frame does not seem to cause any particular problems of interpretation ’ and comments that a researcher , M. Crago , ‘ feels that it is a convention which children quickly learn to accept ’ .
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