Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb mod] [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the agrarian south and east of the continent , the character of society was dominated by two classes of very different size : a body of wealthy landowners , still often enjoying the prestige and privilege and sometimes the legal and noble status of its feudal forebears , and a huge mass of subordinate peasants , some of whom might be freeholders , but by and large economically dependent on the landowners . |
| 2 | The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income . |
| 3 | Chaired by a judge of the High Court or a higher court , it has 16 members , a majority of whom must be persons other than practising or academic lawyers . |
| 4 | It did n't come well from a girl who took her clothes off every night in front of an audience of five hundred , at least half of whom must be men . |
| 5 | This is particularly important because we are now moving into an era when many of Britain 's first wave of home-owners will be bequeathing homes to relations , many of whom will be home-owners themselves . |
| 6 | WACC is supporting a training programme for a team of 15 ‘ verbal stringers ’ ( or reporters ) , at least half of whom will be women . |
| 7 | It should be clear that nenko seido , the combination of lifetime employment and seniority-based wages systems , applies only to the core employees , almost all of whom will be males ( Matsuura , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | The Senate of the Inns of Court consists of 101 barristers ( some of whom will be judges ) representing the profession of barrister ; some are appointed by the benchers of each Inn , some are ex officio members like the leaders from each of the six circuits , and some are elected by members of the Bar . |
| 9 | If that choice is not to the liking of those with voting power , many of whom will be ratepayers , they can make their views evident through the ballot box . |
| 10 | Some of them may be men like John , forced by their male pride and their self-image to suffer in silence . |
| 11 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 12 | There are a lot of barriers that exist between people and training some of them could be things like they do n't have access to child care it could be they lack confidence so we go for support and we can offer training which is local we can offer language support . |
| 13 | One of the greatest things that I have become aware of is that if you have eight people to dinner , one or two of them will be vegetarians . |
| 14 | A high proportion of them will be synonyms — if the file is 85 per cent packed , for example , 17 in every 20 would be expected to be synonyms — and this will lead to rapid deterioration of the file access speed . |
| 15 | Some of them can be issues relating to these energy matters that we have been discussing , and in fact one of the aims of introducing this form of discussion is that science is often seen as a very factual subject — that you just receive and learn the facts . |
| 16 | A large retail organisation owns m sites , some of which may be warehouses and some may be shops . |
| 17 | The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study . |
| 18 | The two of you could be twins . ’ |