Example sentences of "of whom [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply Jesus told the parable of the two debtors , a simple story about two men , one of whom owed a lot of money and the other a little . |
| 2 | At the front of the parade , the solemn men in dark suits and bowler hats , one of whom carried a Bible on a purple cushion . |
| 3 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
| 4 | The contrast between sluggish ANC and dynamic ruling party is summed up in the fates of their old leaders , each of whom suffered a stroke in 1989 . |
| 5 | James and Joan had three sons , one of whom became a major in Charles II 's army and drowned in the river at Pershore . |
| 6 | The jury , also a an international body , then selected twelve semi-finalists , each of whom played a quintet with the Tokyo String Quartet , and a recital which had to include a piece commissioned by the board for the competition , and of which , therefore , there was no standard interpretation . |
| 7 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 8 | In 1945 , the subscriptions rose from five to seven guineas ( four guineas to five guineas for ladies ) , close on a 30% increase for the Men and 25% for the Ladies only one of whom had a handicap at the end of the War . |
| 9 | The preference of ministers and mandarins — none of whom had a desire to be exposed to public criticism — for the ‘ gentleman 's agreement ’ rather than the public discussion of serious policy issues was equally understandable . |
| 10 | The control population consisted of 14 volunteer subjects ( nine men , five women ) with mean age of 44 ( range 22 to 72 ) each of whom had a colon oscopic examination with normal results . |
| 11 | Though chaired by the latitudinarian Anglican , and radical , manufacturer Thomas Walker , it contained a number of Rational Dissenters in the professions — lawyers and doctors — several of whom had an intellectual bent and were active in the discussions of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , a significant regional conduit for Enlightenment thinking . |
| 12 | Probably they took friends as well : George-Philip Ehret and Thomas Martyn , both of whom inherited an interest in botany from their respective artistic and academic fathers . |
| 13 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 14 | According to Laboratoires Garnier who make Permifique , over 6 million women in the UK have permed hair , a third of whom choose a home per . |
| 15 | Hounslow then began to play like a team that were third in the table , forcing United 's mid-field backwards , only to come against Shepherd and Wilson in the centre of United 's defence , neither of whom put a foot wrong all afternoon . |
| 16 | The Unix community , many of whom own a piece of USL , could do worse than promote a of church/state relationship between USL ( as Unix mentor ) and the practitioners of statecraft ( Unix providers ) who are also believers . |
| 17 | The Scrutiny Committee ( the Joint Select Committee on Statutory Instruments ) , latest in a line of successors to a House of Commons select committee first appointed in 1944 , is a committee of 14 ( 7 MPs and 7 peers ) , any 2 of whom constitute a quorum . |
| 18 | Game theory , in general , postulates a set of ‘ players ’ ( the ‘ interested parties ’ , be they individuals or groups ) , each of whom has a set of strategies ; strategies meaning courses of action that can be taken , which may be conditional on moves made by the others . |
| 19 | The British , French and Russians , each of whom have a veto in the Security Council , have deep misgivings about lifting it . |
| 20 | Here Japan and South Korea , both of whom have a surfeit of nationalistic fervour , have a huge advantage . |
| 21 | The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late , and together with two boys — one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors ' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke — managed to raise the alarm . |