Example sentences of "of which [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.

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1 The Scholarships , which cover 7 sports , of which tennis is one , have helped no fewer than 420 youngsters in the first five years of their existence .
2 You then compare your sales performance in the two areas — usually in terms of the percentage change on the previous years — and you have a measure of which campaign is the more successful .
3 The continuum of sexual threat and violence of which rape is one extreme , pervades the movies as it does life , but rarely takes centre stage .
4 Microtubules , of which tubulin is the major protein constituent , are located in a circumferential band in the equatorial plane just under the cell wall in discoid platelets , which suggests that they may be important in maintenance of the platelet cytoskeleton .
5 The Upholder-class submarines , of which Unicorn is the fourth and last , have had a difficult development period .
6 There is the important question of which court is likely to produce the fairest result following a trial , and in certain cases a jury trial has a number of important procedural benefits which are more likely to produce a just result .
7 The prime minister of which country is called Bert Reynolds ?
8 But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding .
9 And within recent years , the question of which culture is for whom is being raised in connection with every one of their activities .
10 The point of introducing this distinction between determination in the last instance and the structure in dominance is to combine the idea that the practices of which society is made up are mutually determining with the ultimate dominance of the economy .
11 The manuscript of Taskopruzade omits the as , in effect , does Sa'deddin , who generally follows Taskopruzade very closely , the result of which omission is to say simply that he became at the Darulhadis. el-Kefevi 's text of Taskopruzade clearly included the however , since he states unequivocally that Molla Arab became Hizir Bey 's muid at the Darulhadis ; and there is thus a good case that , despite the doubts introduced by the manuscript of Taskopruzade and Sa'deddin , Taskopruzade intended the lahu .
12 Traditional wisdom bases ‘ a good diet ’ around the consumption of three meals a day of which breakfast is seen as the most important .
13 According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer .
14 Can it be that without the accompanying ‘ form ’ of the lessons of the past , of which memory is a vital part , ‘ freedom ’ can never be more than a fragile short-lived luxury ?
15 This catchment area is around the lakes of Ullswater and Hawes Water from both of which water is piped to Manchester .
16 The rise of science , and of technological rationality with which it is closely associated , provides the basis for this reduction of human relations from qualitative to quantitative forms , of which money is the dominant model .
17 The exhibits will also be enriched by the loan display of American art from the collection of Richard H. Jenrette ( whose holdings furnish the Robert William Roper House , Charleston , South Carolina and his own residence a Federal plantation-style house , Ayr Mount , near Hillsborough , North Carolina ) and from the corporate collection of Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrette , of which Jenrette is Chairman of the Board .
18 In the case of settlements by virtue of which income is paid to or for the benefit of an infant unmarried child of a settlor , the definition is extended to include " transfers of assets " ( s670 ) .
19 In computer selling , for example , successful selling requires an appreciation of which system is most appropriate given customer needs and resources .
20 For Gould , accustomed to the European way of shooting birds , of which stealth is rarely a part , the task was not so easy .
21 1 part coarse sand to 1 bushel ⅛ gallons ( 36 ⅓ litres ) of which mixture is added 21 g ( ¾ oz ) chalk and 42 g ( 1½ oz ) superphosphate .
22 The present international system of nation states , or blocs of nation states , in each of which nationalism is a powerful force , is inherently likely to produce serious conflicts .
23 Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’
24 This answers to a wider theological concept that the whole universe itself of which man is part is an expression of the play of God bringing creative order out of chaos .
25 It is widely used in this tradition to describe a quality of the tasks of which policing is normally comprised — that these tasks are mostly mundane , ordinary , and day-to-day .
26 This leads us to propose the ‘ causal direction hypothesis ’ : children learn about the role of causal connectives as indicators of which event is cause and which effect before they learn about their role as indicators of which event happened first .
27 There is a small ‘ diamond ’ of dim stars , of which Alpha is the brightest ; to find them , use Zeta and Epsilon Cephei as guides .
28 The above findings on childhood leukaemia provide further evidence for horizontal transmission of some underlying infection of which leukaemia is a rare response .
29 The payment is said by the respondent not to have been ‘ voluntary ’ but ‘ forced ’ from it within the contemplation of the law … ‘ compulsion ’ in relation to a payment of which refund is sort , and whether it is also variously called ‘ coercion , ’ ‘ extortion , ’ ‘ exaction ’ or ‘ force , ’ includes every species of duress or conduct analogous to duress actual or threatened , exacted by or on behalf of the payee and applied to the person or the property or any right of the person who pays … .
30 They are the background of legal principles against which the Act is viewed , and in the light of which Parliament is assumed to have legislated , without being expected to express them .
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