Example sentences of "of [pron] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year there are close to 600 incidents of crime reported to our police , around two thirds of whom are based on BNFL sites . |
| 2 | The tightness of the circle extends to professional staff at the Palace too , all of whom are appointed on personal recommendation . |
| 3 | We have taken the industry as being the member firms of The Scotch Whisky Association ( SWA ) , all of whom are engaged in distilling , maturation and warehousing or blending . |
| 4 | The most important union for farm workers in England is the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers ( NUAAW ) which has a membership of approximately 90000 , three-quarters of whom are employed on the land . |
| 5 | This story runs parallel with that of a bank robbery which is being planned for 14th July by a group of petty criminals , some of whom are employed on the building site for the new hotel . |
| 6 | The Law Society acts through its Council which is composed of 70 solicitors , 56 of whom are elected by members of the Society with the remaining 14 being elected by the Council itself . |
| 7 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 8 | The passengers charter has been warmly welcomed by many of my Back-Bench colleagues many of whom are sitting behind me . |
| 9 | The option is already proving popular , not least with our increasing numbers of Access students many of whom are attracted to subsequent careers as teachers . |
| 10 | Part of the reason behind the payments is to placate high earners , some of whom are asking to be moved to overseas branches of their companies to avoid higher taxes . |
| 11 | Development has been swift and Worknet now has a staff of twenty eight people , all of whom are dedicated to assisting the community in their search for employment or training . |
| 12 | The majority of these are elderly women , many of whom are caring for siblings . |
| 13 | There are four full-time Research Officers and the rest of the work is done by 13 research assistants , some of whom are part-time and most of whom are studying for PhDs . |
| 14 | The bands are Steed , Brick Supply , Watersnakes , and Mojo , all of whom are signed to Graeme Robinson 's new label , Circulation . |
| 15 | We are going to have to choose our bird from a very short list of names , none of whom are known to us , or have any political or ideological weaknesses to play upon . ’ |
| 16 | This Astra was stolen by 5 teenagers , some of whom are thought to be as young as 13 . |
| 17 | We 'll have 3,100 pints on tap at the event for the expected 1,000 visitors , some of whom are coming from as far away as Belgium . |
| 18 | NEARLY 100,000 young people go missing in Britain each year , many of whom are lured into prostitution in fear of their lives by ‘ the unscrupulous and powerful ’ , according to a study into the country 's first safe house for young runaways . |
| 19 | Hewlett Packard and Apricot , both of whom are going with the Aldus/Microsoft package , are rather more conservative and reckon perhaps 15 to 20 each . |
| 20 | Their total number at the 1981 census was about 168,000 , 90 per cent of whom are found in Serbia proper , Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 21 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 22 | In some cases , certainly , it is the result of a free choice on the part of individuals , most of whom are concentrated in the higher social classes where financial security , other than through earned income , is common . |
| 23 | This applies especially to the life of the more affluent , most of whom are concentrated in the advanced societies . |
| 24 | The HCIMA has echnical information and lists of potential sources of help , many of whom are contained in this yearbook . |
| 25 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
| 26 | To provide for any improvements in education or Institute affairs , close liaison and dialogue with the committees , tutors , general membership , educationalists and also kindred associations all of whom are committed towards advancing both the profession of embalming and funeral service . |
| 27 | The three remaining elders — Chen Yun , Wang Zhen and Song Renqiong , each of whom is believed to be in poor health — have conspicuously failed to put their name to a cause that , according to their past views , could lead to a ‘ capitalist restoration ’ . |
| 28 | The outstanding collection of seventeenth century pictures includes an exhilarating landscape by Rubens and works by Poussin , Claude , Frans Hals and Murillo , the last of whom is represented by a grandly orchestrated Marriage Feast at Cana , one of the undoubted gems of the collection . |
| 29 | from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period . |
| 30 | Joseph and Ann had six children , none of whom is named in the will . |