Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late seventies a succession of writers , of whom Correlli Barnett and Martin Wiener were the best-known , had given this idea intellectual respectability . |
| 2 | Mahmoud detested everything that Nuri stood for : the old , near-feudal Egypt , with its hereditary great landlords , of whom Nuri was one ; court-based politics , in which Nuri was adept ; the power of the old order to block and frustrate all attempts at reform . |
| 3 | You owe that to the extraordinary talents which you have received from a beneficent God ; and now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician , utterly forgotten by the world , or as a famous Kapellmeister , of whom posterity will read … |
| 4 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 5 | Seventy years later the population had risen to 22.7 million , of whom 62% lived in towns and cities . |
| 6 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 7 | It was ironic that John Cornford should be named Rupert in memory of the poet Rupert Brooke [ q.v. ] , who had died in April 1915 , for Cornford came to despise the school of Georgian poets , of whom Brooke was the supreme exemplar and his mother a loyal adherent . |
| 8 | The local points of contact on these and all other SCOTVEC matters are the team of nine Field Officers , each of whom works in a defined geographical area . |
| 9 | These courses have a minimum of 2 weeks duration with between 4 and 6 hours of daily tuition given by a team of two or three experienced teachers , each of whom works on a specific language area . |
| 10 | In total , 10314 civil servants participated , of whom 67% ( 6900 ) were men and 33% ( 3414 ) were women . |
| 11 | Everyone was into existentialism , along with the beginnings of meditation , Zen and some other odd philosophies practised and preached by one of Dean 's advisers , a male witch named Samson DeVreer , who was often in company of another of Dean 's odd acquaintances , the television hostess named Vampira , because she looked like one , of whom Dean once said — when asked by Hedda Hopper if he was seeing her — ‘ I do n't date cartoons . ’ |
| 12 | The revenue authorities maintained that these persons were ‘ male servants ’ in respect of whom licence duties were payable under the Revenue Act 1869 ( 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14 ) . |
| 13 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 14 | Convicted prisoners are outnumbered by the euphemistically named ‘ undertrials ’ — remanded prisoners for most of whom trial is months ( if not years ) away and many of whom , detained pending police investigations , have not yet been charged with an offence ( Diaz 1977 ) . |
| 15 | The value placed on this formal approach is reminiscent of American New Criticism , and also of Russian Formalism and the work of Roman Jakobson — all of whom Genette approvingly cites in this essay on structuralism and literary criticism . |
| 16 | Time-Warner defended Ice-T 's rap song Cop Killer — ‘ bust some shots off , dust some cops off ’ — on grounds of freedom of expression ; while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has allegedly encouraged film-makers to focus on the most degraded aspects of human nature , showering Oscars on The Silence of the Lambs , the story of two serial killers , one of whom skins people while the other eats them . |
| 17 | According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari was born in Safar 751/April-May 1350 and studied " in his own lands ' under certain scholars of whom Ibn Hajar names three : Ala " al-Din , known as al-Aswad ( Kara Hoca ) ; al-Kamal Muhammad b . |
| 18 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 19 | The Morellian method had opponents , among them some of the German scholars of whom Morelli made fun by his articles . |
| 20 | Though he sensed that he was getting close — his goal , the gringo brain behind the coup , of whom Miguelito had boasted . |
| 21 | At present , exemptions from the personal community charge exist for 18-year-old school pupils in respect of whom child benefit is paid , and 18 and 19-year-olds who are on qualifying courses of further education . |
| 22 | Whereas Guedron had considerable sense of drama , Boësset had more talent for lyricism and the love-song , and it was his path rather than that of his father-in-law which was followed by the younger composers , of whom Francois Richard the elder ( d. 1650 ) and Étienne Moulinié ( c. 1600–after 1669 ) were the most gifted . |
| 23 | The Cabinet member of whom Baldwin 's opinion rose most rapidly was Birkenhead . |
| 24 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 25 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 26 | He had ninety thousand men , of whom half might fight well , and he knew he would likely face a hundred thousand of Napoleon 's veterans . |
| 27 | It was lively enough to marry Bellow to a ‘ stylish Radcliffe graduate ’ of whom Roth had been ‘ enamoured ’ — if we are to assume that The Facts has not imagined the connection . |
| 28 | External and internal war produced their victims , of whom Makarenko 's stray youths were but one example . |
| 29 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 30 | When Serena reads an article on the plane to Greece about a pair of Siamese twins , one of whom dies , she realizes that she and Stella are like Siamese twins joined at the psyche ( 40 ) . |