Example sentences of "of they [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 2 | Mexico contains many active volcanoes , a quantity of them burdened with tortuous Aztec names such as the well-known Popocatepetl . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , Château Margaux ‘ 48 , ’ one of them exclaimed with great excitement . |
| 4 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 5 | By the next day , there were three angels keeping vigil by her bed , one of them clad in black applying cold cloths to her brow . |
| 6 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 7 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 8 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 9 | It said villagers were forming detachments , many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives . |
| 10 | There was some of them billeted in private houses , and we just had a two r bedroom house out at Whale Park a Peedie bungalow . |
| 11 | A few chambers have set a shining example by stating that they will grant pupillages ( some of them accompanied by monetary awards ) by open competition ; if you wish to apply , write for details to John Stuart Colyer Esq . |
| 12 | Detailed studies of particular artefacts direct attention to the varying complexity involved in manufacturing items , many of them designed for specific functions . |
| 13 | So far , about 40,000 workers have gone on strike in roughly 80 steel and engineering companies , most of them owned by western German firms or the Treuhand , the agency privatising east German industry . |
| 14 | Going into the big general waiting room , Daisy no longer noticed the many photographs of grateful animals and their owners which decorated the walls , most of them signed with fulsome messages indicating every degree of gratitude . |
| 15 | They had two sons ( one of them knighted for military services in 1905 ) and one daughter . |
| 16 | The countryside lives in fear of dacoits , many of them armed with automatic weapons left behind by the Japs . |
| 17 | No fewer than eight towers dominated the façade , six of them capped by shallow-hipped roofs , two of them flat , open , and balustraded , bearing flag-poles , and all arranged in a numbing symmetry . |