Example sentences of "of [pron] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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1 | The collection spans the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries with sheets by 199 artists , more than half of whom are new to the gallery ( including Peruzzi , Ribalta , Coypel , Schinkel , Landseer , Doré and Alma-Tadema ) . |
2 | Netwise Inc has picked up $8.5m in third-round venture capital from eight firms including Hancock Venture Partners and the Japan Associated Finance Co , both of whom are new to the company : the money will be used for further development . |
3 | The President appoints a Prime Minister and , on the latter 's advice , a Council of Ministers , all of whom are responsible to Parliament . |
4 | The President appoints a Vice-President and a Cabinet , all of whom are responsible to the Assembly . |
5 | The President appoints a Prime Minister and , on the latter 's advice , a Council of Ministers , all of whom are responsible to Parliament . |
6 | On pages 24 , 48 and 54 you will find details of our painting holidays to Austria , Sicily , Cornwall and the South of France tutored by Peter Partlington , Peter Welton and Karen Simmons — all of whom are well-known to The Artist readers for their teaching skills and reputations as artists . |
7 | That still leaves a healthy blend of seasoned hands and determined younger players , many of whom are happy to be regarded as all-rounders rather than specialists . |
8 | If a landlord who owns a three-bedroom flat enters into three separate independent tenancies with three independent tenants each of whom is entitled to one bedroom and to share the common parts , then the three do not enjoy exclusive occupation of the flat jointly under the terms of their tenancies . |
9 | The delegates had a stimulating day , with a wide variety of speakers , none of whom was afraid to be controversial . |
10 | These are political organisations , many of whom were opposed to the policies , some of whom were obstructive to their implementation . |
11 | On March 12 Syria released from prison 302 Palestinians , the majority of whom were loyal to Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
12 | Among other Cabinet members , most of whom were new to national politics , were Ronnie Ramlakhan at Foreign Affairs , Hans Breeveld in charge of Internal Affairs and Regional Development , Eddy Varseveld at Economic Affairs and Paul Sjak Sjie as Minister of Justice and Police . |
13 | The chair was , however , under the control of the archbishop of Canterbury , Tillotson , and the bishop of Worcester , Stillingfleet , both of whom were alive to the dangers of unbridled scientific speculation . |
14 | These are political organisations , many of whom were opposed to the policies , some of whom were obstructive to their implementation . |
15 | He combined great innovative ability and enthusiasm with charm , humour , and kindness to his staff , many of whom were devoted to him . |
16 | First , there was the accession to power in Britain of the Labour Party , some of whom were sympathetic to the idea of ‘ sensible reform ’ ( Bew et al. , 1979 ) . |
17 | Remarkable that out of thirty people elected last May , fifteen of them are new to this Council , a staggering seventeen percent of the Council if you do it statistically . |
18 | Despite the entitlements spelled out in the supplementary benefit regulations , many of them are subject to discretion . |
19 | It is possible to adjust the data for the high proportion of part-time workers , by assuming that two of them are equivalent to one full-time worker . |
20 | ‘ All of them are vulnerable to coastal erosion and are being nibbled away by the sea . |
21 | Much of them are unreclaimed to this day , as in Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey . |
22 | Some of them are near to tears . |
23 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
24 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
25 | With most major life events , it is likely to be very difficult both to identify people who have recently experienced an event and find out which of them are likely to be susceptible to psychiatric disorder as a consequence . |
26 | It is not known exactly where the birds end up , although some of them are likely to be eaten as game by African farmers . |
27 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
28 | Thirty per cent of them are unfit to be used for education . |
29 | This , coupled with the fact that they are also relatively low paid , means that many of them are unattractive to many of the unemployed . |
30 | ‘ One of them is married to our present king , ’ Huy said quietly . |