Example sentences of "of [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Britain is to compete successfully in the frightening new post-Tokyo world , it must have at its helm a captain over the health of whom no niggling question marks hover . |
| 2 | Transracial adoption was also encouraged by developments in child care practice designed to reduce dramatically the number of children living in institutions , of whom a disproportionate number were and still are black ( Raynor 1975 ; Rowe and Lambert , 1970 ) . |
| 3 | There are many other pupils , of whom a significant number are girls , who are alienated and disaffected but who provoke no response from professional services . |
| 4 | The NCB had a chairman , Mr Ian McGregor , of whom the Prime Minister approved . |
| 5 | In discordant twin pairs of whom the diseased twin had ulcerative colitis , the healthy ones tended to have a raised proportion of IgG1 cells ( 64.6% ) , and the IgG2 cell fraction was significantly ( p=0.05 ) reduced ( 19.1% ) compared with controls . |
| 6 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 7 | The support staff is tiny in comparison with that of a Cabinet Minister or US President — about eighty staffworking in Downing Street of whom the great majority ( about sixty ) are clerical and secretarial staff , messengers , clerks , or administrators of the machine . |
| 8 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 9 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 10 | Another Select Committee reported in 1875 that ‘ the continued operation of the Deer Removal Act 1851 ’ would ‘ render the rights of common existing over the New Forest worthless , and by so doing … extinguish a large class of small freeholders and tenants of whom the highest character has been given ’ ; furthermore it would ‘ destroy almost the only specimen left in England of a primeval forest , a priceless source of enjoyment to all classes of the nation ’ . |
| 11 | Official statistics released on April 17 showed that 2,188 people , of whom the overwhelming majority were Serbs , had emigrated from Kosovo during 1989 . |
| 12 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 13 | Indeed , of the category of " male part-timers " , 40 per cent are accounted for by men with temporary jobs , of whom the large majority ( 78 per cent ) are in seasonal , temporary or casual jobs . |
| 14 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 15 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 16 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 17 | Between 1960 and 1970 there was no more successful caddie than Tip Anderson : three victories — one of them a spectacular triumph with Tony Lema on his beloved St Andrews links , and a second place in the centenary , also at St Andrews . |
| 18 | In the hut , in the open snow , in the Factory , the Administration block , in the punishment cells , is any one of them a better ground to fight on ? |
| 19 | He paused , gave each of them a solemn look across his spectacles and then went on even more deliberately , in his dry old voice . |
| 20 | They will play before the howling , hipflasking hordes of Old Stiffupperlippians , each of them wearing a red rose and not one of them a Labour voter . |
| 21 | A town is in mourning after two people , one of them a nine year old boy , died in separate holiday accidents in the United States . |
| 22 | Ahead of them a burly figure was emerging into the street . |
| 23 | I twisted on the pole , pushed my talons forward and caught one of them a passing blow . |
| 24 | To Tozer 's surprise , two clients — one of them a new customer — have asked Softwright to sort out their own wayward personal computer-based projects . |
| 25 | Now , less than a week after the Wearmouth colliery pit disaster , when an underground train carrying miners to the pit was derailed , killing two of them a new advert has appeared . |
| 26 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 27 | As I passed the two of them a second security guard came out of the doorway , holding a fat canvas money-bag . |
| 28 | In so far as it was possible to control the number of children they had , a significant number of Victorian parents were beginning to do so — if only because of the simple fact that the fewer sons and daughters there were , the more could be done to give each of them a good start in life . |
| 29 | Leukaemia , MS , Homeless , Starving , Single Parented , Down 's Syndrome , Help the Aged — every one of them a deserving cause , deserving of my attendance , my money , my commitment , my clothes . |
| 30 | The case had indeed been brought by Burroughs ( US ( and Amdahl ( US-Japan ( — neither of them a European company . |