Example sentences of "of which we [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're obsessed by the shit out of which we 're shaped ( surgery ) , the shit that could befall us ( horrible accidents ) , the shit in our souls ( the drives and impulses we suppress and expel in order to constitute ourselves as normal , but which sometimes break free in perversion or psychosis ) . |
| 2 | It 's this fall , this unseating of our lofty conception of ourselves ( as conscious , self-determining spirits ) that Butthole Surfers love to induce : hence the fascination with surgery ( exposing the meat and muck out of which we 're made ) , with lapses into the unreason of psychosis or perversion . |
| 3 | We use this to cast light on a metaphor of which we are given no other interpretation . |
| 4 | These stars converted some of the original hydrogen and helium into elements like carbon and oxygen , out of which we are made . |
| 5 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
| 6 | By the end of that book , though , they have got to the 13th March , some eight days later than the last events of which we are told in Book III . |
| 7 | For Bataille , the ultimate destination of rational thought is the revelation that we know and can know nothing , beyond the realization that all the towering projections of the human spirit are based on a primary denial of the abyss out of which we were formed . |
| 8 | The trial of Galileo , of which we were reminded by your excellent article ( 7 April , p 25 ) , clearly is of paramount significance in several areas of human development . |