Example sentences of "of [pron] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 2 | The broken , Monkish phrases , lean , understated tone with a faint quaver to it , and unerring sense of placement are to be heard on five Monk tunes , and the trumpeter , Don Cherry — a musician of whom it is distinctly difficult to say you know what is coming next — is available on some of them . |
| 3 | A firm is not in England a legal personality distinct from its members , though in Scotland a firm is a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed ( partnership Act 1890 , s. 4 ) . |
| 4 | To say ‘ I leave ’ ( relinquo ) is to attribute property immediately to the person of whom it is said , rather than to vest it in a trustee . |
| 5 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 6 | There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world . |
| 7 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 8 | If a socage tenant died without heirs and intestate , his land escheated , i.e. went back to the lord of whom it was held , who in practically all cases had come to be the King . |
| 9 | Now , apparently , he was on the staff of Camilien Houde , the infamous mayor of Montreal , of whom it was said he was running the city on the same basis of protection rackets as some of the big-time gangsters of Chicago . |
| 10 | He is one of the select band of teachers ( including Dick and Macqueen ) of whom it was said that they could tell if a horse was lame , merely by listening . |
| 11 | Other unique material in the Southern Collection includes the unpublished manuscript notebooks of the distinguished theatre historian , William John Lawrence , who was born in Dublin in 1862 , and of whom it was once said that to whatever aspect of theatre history the student may turn , Lawrence will have been there before him . |
| 12 | One College provided information on this with five staff , for four of whom it was their major concern . |
| 13 | Further concern centred on a proposal to award full employment rights to temporary or migrant workers working on temporary contract , of whom it was estimated that there were over 1,000,000 in April 1990 . |
| 14 | Oh the thing in front of me it 's Malcolm Adams and I 'm with the National Association of British Steel Pensions . |
| 15 | And some of them it 's it 's hard to get them to go so but in general any of the fairly reactive acids and any of the fairly reactive metals they 're going to give you a salt and hydrogen . |
| 16 | With some of them it 's general principles because he 's the head . |
| 17 | With many of them it 's personal . |
| 18 | Erm in both of them it 's , they 're saying that how they 're falling behind and they ought to lead them as opposed to joining them . |
| 19 | Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see |
| 20 | Oh I 'd let them come , I 'd let them come whenever you can get them cos we 've got so many of them it 's |
| 21 | I 've seen dozens of doctors and for all of them it is an enigma … |
| 22 | Now for many of them it is possible . |
| 23 | But for most of them it is clearly worth it , and Carol would struggle in even when she was not feeling well . |
| 24 | In some of them it is the tone of every syllable which is contrastive and therefore important . |
| 25 | When one considers the amount of time , effort and money involved in the preparation of those papers and the hearing of them it is , in my opinion , becoming essential to ensure that the number of frivolous appeals ( some of which are perhaps made out of ‘ cussedness ’ to cause the officers involved as much trouble as possible ) is reduced . |
| 26 | And he knew which of them it was . |
| 27 | My breasts had developed quite early , and although I was proud of them it was also embarrassing , especially at school . |
| 28 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 29 | The commander of an East Indiamen might bring home with him 38 tons of cargo , his chief mate was allowed eight tons , the second officer six tons , and the remaining officers in decreasing proportion , but for all of them it was an important part of their remuneration . |
| 30 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |