Example sentences of "of [Wh det] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both inevitably confronted , and were indeed dominated by , the problem of the differences between different human groups and ( as they were drawn into the evolutionist model ) , the problem of the descent of man and of different types of society , of which the bourgeois world appeared unquestionably the highest . |
| 2 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
| 3 | Finally , in the middle decades of the nineteenth century , we get once again whole new towns created on the gridiron pattern , of which the outstanding examples are the iron and steel towns of Middlesbrough and Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 4 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 5 | This can be an advantage for that reason , particularly if the bidder already owns a significant number of shares in the target which will reduce the pool of shares in respect of which the 75 per cent or 90 per cent threshold must be achieved . |
| 6 | For this reason , the years 1559 to 1625 need to be viewed as a distinct religious period , during the course of which the Elizabethan church founded in 1559 gradually came to acquire a deep hold on the affections of the English people . |
| 7 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 8 | The Duchy of Cornwall , where Charles had promised to apply the lessons of organic agriculture , is one of the largest estates in Britain , about 130,000 acres in all , of which the greater part is on Dartmoor . |
| 9 | In the winter of 1948–49 , a general area survey of studies in Public Affairs was undertaken in Hertfordshire by His Majesty 's Inspectorate ( HMI ) which included liberal studies offered by the four Responsible Bodies , of which the Eastern District was one , and the LEA . |
| 10 | Serious confrontations with Soviet forces on the Manchuria and Korean borders at Zhanggufeng and Nomonhan in 1938–9 , in both of which the Japanese came off worse , heightened concern at the growing strength of Russian forces . |
| 11 | In 1985 , for example , of total federal revenue of 686 billion dinars , 110 billion dinars was derived from customs duties , 264 billion dinars from basic sales tax ( of which the federal government was entitled at that time to one-half ) , and 251 billion dinars from transfers from the republics and provinces . |
| 12 | By early February 1991 he had conceded that taxes would have to be raised if Germany 's 1991 borrowing requirement were to be kept to DM140,000 million or 5 per cent of GNP ( of which the federal government share would be DM70,000 million ) . |
| 13 | In fact , this crisis directly entered the form , as a crisis of the principles underlying the formation , in Godwin 's two ( radically different endings to Things as They Are , of which the latter , written at the time of greatest danger , marks the transition to a new and more subjective form . |
| 14 | The first significant change to the political map of the Merovingian kingdom occurred with the campaign of Theudebert II and Theuderic II against Chlothar II in the year 600 , as a result of which the latter was left only with the territories of Beauvais , Amiens and Rouen . |
| 15 | Then unc and we may evaluate unc of which the relevant submatrix is ( omitting all other rows and columns ) unc which yields unc We now choose{ gth } 1 such that Buv vanishes ; i.e. unc This fixed{ gth } 1 . |
| 16 | Consider in this light the following modification to one of the other examples given above ; all we have done is to add a group of things ( " kinds of images " ) of which the relevant phrase can be treated as a part : There are various kinds of images which can be explored . |
| 17 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 18 | The oldest mechanical conservation measure is the bench terrace which consists of a series of steps cut into the slope on the contour , of which the forward edge can be lined with stone or planted with bushes , trees or grasses . |
| 19 | This chapter looks at geomancy and the variety of ways , of which the magical approach is but one , in which people have modified their environment in order to achieve inner change . |
| 20 | Of his collaborative works with Herbert , Marble Hill and the White Lodge are classic examples of the first-generation Anglo-Palladian villa , of which the former in particular was to be a highly influential model amongst later designers ; while the bridge at Wilton is one of the most perfect and most memorably inventive of all Anglo-Palladian images , and was to be faithfully copied on four occasions — at Stowe ( by 1742 ) , Prior Park , Bath ( 1756 ) , Hagley ( by 1764 ) , and Amesbury ( 1777 ) . |
| 21 | His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant . |
| 22 | Before them lay a pit , out of which the deadly cold vapour was still drifting up . |
| 23 | There is also a remote , but possible , danger that on contentious matters with a social context , the Protocol procedure could be abused for the purpose of eliminating opposition from the UK to measures where , for example , the UK , Spain and Portugal ( a blocking minority of 23 votes ) would oppose a measure of which the other member states were in favour . |
| 24 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 25 | More generally , however , this tort has been said to be the genus of which the other unlawful means torts ( intimidation and interference with contract and conspiracy where unlawful means are involved ) are species . |
| 26 | In no place does Bauthumley recommend the practical antinomianism of which the other Ranters were accused . |
| 27 | With the same instinct that had sent Bishop Jon , he noted , to pare his nails and perfect the glossy ring of his tonsure , he on the eve of battle came cleansed from a hot bath : the ritual laugardagr observed once a week by his fore-fathers , of which the other Bishop John in far-off Bremen would so have disapproved . |
| 28 | I asked whether the Prime Minister stood by the assurance that borrowing requirement would not increase to pay for tax cuts , now or in future , under any Government of which the right hon. Gentleman was leader . |
| 29 | Could I now come to the events of which the right hon. Gentleman accused me — namely , my involvement on 2 May ? |
| 30 | I will give three examples , all of which the right hon. Gentleman has rejected in the past . |