Example sentences of "of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1988 the group had 8,000 employees , of whom 500 were outside France . |
| 32 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
| 33 | They will have to be approved by the Lord Chancellor and be subject to the ‘ concurrence ’ of four senior Supreme Court judges , of whom Lord Donaldson will be one . |
| 34 | The Villa manager spent £1.2m in February on Ian Ormondroyd and Nigel Callaghan — neither of whom made Saturday 's starting line-up — and a further £1m during the summer . |
| 35 | Mr Morton and his colleagues will have to answer some awkward questions , not least from small investors , many of whom bought into the company attracted by the perks and the sense of excitement as much as by a detailed understanding of the economics of the enterprise . |
| 36 | He unnerves and often offends colleagues on the Legislative Council , many of whom believe their institution is safer in the hands of appointees and amateurs than of populists . |
| 37 | If Dennis can maintain parity in the midst of such vested interest , then the credit really should rest with McLaren International rather than the drivers , neither of whom has had an entirely blemish-free season . |
| 38 | Morgan Grenfell amd Kleinwort Benson , each of whom played no role in the BAT bid , were also in the top 10 . |
| 39 | The company has now hired a consultant ornithologist , an interim manager and an advisory board for Discovery Island — all of whom have blue-chip animal rights credentials . |
| 40 | GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA , the military ruler of Panama , is largely a creation of the Americans , but one of whom Washington is now anxious to be rid : hence the unvarnished disappointment there at the failure of the latest attempt to topple him . |
| 41 | Foreigners ( of whom there are quite a few at the UN ) can do nothing right for Mr Coleman . |
| 42 | The members of Gothic Voices ( on this occasion five , of whom two were singing with the group for the first time ) sing these melodies — often complex and wide-ranging — as if they really love them ; sensitive to the ebb and flow of the text , they nurture unexpected melodic twists , always allowing the structure to unfold and mould . |
| 43 | Since then , the ‘ Willowgate ’ scandal over the illegal sale of cars has brought down five cabinet ministers , one of whom committed suicide . |
| 44 | The city 's council has decided that it no longer wants an unlimited number of gypsies or travellers , many of whom are using illegal pitches , descending on the city . |
| 45 | A minor abnormality in the chromosomes which control development has been found in a brother and sister , both of whom were mentally retarded , according to a report in tomorrow 's edition of The Lancet . |
| 46 | DAVID James , who took over as chairman of Eagle Trust less than two weeks ago , yesterday stamped his mark on the troubled Midlands mini-conglomerate , appointing three new directors and securing the resignations of three others , two of whom were supporters of deposed chairman Malcolm Stockdale . |
| 47 | LORD ALDINGTON told the High Court yesterday he was not surprised that tens of thousands of Yugoslavs , many of whom had fought on the German side , feared repatriation at the end of the war . |
| 48 | The 450,000 employees , 300,000 of whom work in the postal service , are unhappy . |
| 49 | But the leaderships of the main factions consist almost entirely of sociologists and political scientists , all of whom have had to read Macchiavelli at one stage of their careers . |
| 50 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 51 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 52 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 53 | Under them are battlefield commanders , most of whom operate under code names such as Korn , Siab , Chan , Sok . |
| 54 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |
| 55 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 56 | NEARLY 100,000 young people go missing in Britain each year , many of whom are lured into prostitution in fear of their lives by ‘ the unscrupulous and powerful ’ , according to a study into the country 's first safe house for young runaways . |
| 57 | ‘ The response has been fantastic particularly from Millwall supporters , many of whom brought their applications into The Den ( home of the football club ) , ’ said the chairman , Reg Burr . |
| 58 | Two years on , Cleveland should be allowed to move from anger and denial to acceptance and compassion — for the sake of children and the people abusing them , both of whom need effective help . |
| 59 | Only close family members attended the service , some of whom say that his body showed signs of torture . |
| 60 | In world-wide rankings Mr Kluge comes ninth , behind six Japanese billionaires , the richest of whom is weighs in at $15bn . |