Example sentences of "of which [ex0] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , when he condemns right-wing violence , of which there is all too much in Germany ( 670 attacks by right-wing extremists in the first four months of this year , up from 420 in the same period last year ) , he is careful also to condemn left-wing violence , of which there is fortunately much less . |
| 2 | Berkeley 's attack on abstract ideas is to be found in the introduction to his Principles of Human Knowledge , of which there are many editions . |
| 3 | Fouroux , the subject of many a cartoon in the French dailies , battered , bruised and confused alongside a yawning French cockerel , knows that failure at Lille will sharpen knives , of which there are many , and increase the demands for a return to traditional French flamboyancy . |
| 4 | Worse still , in their programmes of records , of which there are many , it is common practice to have to endure several minutes of discussion on the item to be played . |
| 5 | This sort of twisted ply , of which there are many examples , finds a close analogy in some of the well known ( cholesterolic ) liquid crystals and has led some scientists , notably Dr Charles Neville of the University of Bristol , to believe that they are formed by a process of direct self-assembly . |
| 6 | While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem . |
| 7 | Thus real and objective limitations and risks ( of which there are many ) may be magnified still further by teachers ' projections . |
| 8 | Presumably , there are psychological needs at work influencing a young person to look for suitable father figures of which there are many in sport . |
| 9 | The accompanying map shows the most substantial rivers , but the scale does not permit us to show every stream and tributary , of which there are many thousands . |
| 10 | If you respond to it , no other will do ; if you do n't , look up my reviews of other recent recordings , of which there are many . |
| 11 | If the bride or groom or their families or ancestors are famous , it might be worth your while looking them up in Who 's Who , and similar reference works , of which there are many editions covering authors , scientists , theatrical personages , and royalty . |
| 12 | Dieter Plage , wildlife cameraman , recalls being considerably outnumbered by leeches ( of which there are many species ) in the Indonesian rainforest . |
| 13 | The gas could be compressed and pumped straight into depleted gas fields of which there are many in the Netherlands . |
| 14 | The remainder of the warranties in the standard sale agreement ( of which there are many ) address the purchaser 's other concerns in relation to the business . |
| 15 | The small bakers shops , of which there are fewer and fewer , are finding new competition from chain shop bakers supplied by baker factories . |
| 16 | ‘ I say this only to the very special women , of which there are few , and of which , my dear Alexandra , you are one . |
| 17 | This is the place for lovers of stalagmites and stalactites , of which there are some noble specimens and which the guides , true to their kind , will insist on likening to some human or animal shape , as if it were wrong to allow rocks to look only like rocks . |
| 18 | The village as such is ordinary perhaps but its setting is sublime , in one of the most pastoral of the cirques or rings of mountains of which there are some dramatic examples in the high Pyrenees ( see Plate 4 ) . |
| 19 | Many who stay at the abbey do so at the suggestion of members of the Iona Community , of which there are some 200 scattered throughout the UK . |
| 20 | Coinage can also perform all the common functions of money , of which there are several in a typical market-based economy . |
| 21 | Available commercially either in interleaved sheets , rolls , or drum shaped coreless rolls , from which the paper is drawn from the centre , paper is invariably obtained from a dispenser of which there are several kinds . |
| 22 | There are two main types of terminal tackle , the link-leger and the paternoster , of which there are several variations of each . |
| 23 | You would be better off to install a deterrent device , of which there are several types ( all advertised in PFK ) . |
| 24 | Next into the ‘ reaction ’ must go limitations , of which there are several kinds . |
| 25 | The meaning is given by the relevant rules , of which there are several , each giving the wink a different significance . |
| 26 | But leaving aside instances of momentary irritation , of which there were many , as all field-workers must expect , most respondents became confident enough in the field-worker 's presence to express what were undoubtedly widely held fears about the research . |
| 27 | She scanned the newspapers for offers of adoption , of which there were many . |
| 28 | More immediate disputes , of which there were many , were sometimes settled at the Lochmaben Stone , one mile west from the mouth of the River Sark . |
| 29 | Rabbit netting was the main poaching preoccupation of that area and there was always a ready market for live rabbits to sell to miners for training their whippets , of which there were many . |
| 30 | Of which there were many . |