Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Korean communists at Yenan probably numbered about 300 , some of whom fought with the CCF . |
| 2 | After all , the Lurgan outfit can boast the talents of Barry and Kevin O'Hagan as well as the mercurial skills of Diarmuid Marsden all of whom played for the Armagh Minor side last year . |
| 3 | One other noteworthy source of support to franchise bidders , bringing resources less of money than talent ( though they often acquired shareholdings later ) were the experienced broadcasters , many of whom came from the BBC ( inevitably , in 1955 ) . |
| 4 | Despite relegation to the Third Division the club kept a playing staff of thirty-eight , twenty-five of whom came from the Barnsley area and were almost all miners or the sons of miners . |
| 5 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 6 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 7 | At a junction one of them stepped from the Sierra and opened fire on the police car with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle , said the prosecution , but the two officers were not injured . |
| 8 | One of them stepped from the Sierra with the Kalashnikov and aimed it at the police car . |
| 9 | But her vast collection of hoary old Jewish jokes , most of them pinched from the Dead Sea Scrolls , are greeted with paroxysms of guffaws and rolling in the aisles . |
| 10 | Mounted on dragons , the two of them flew to the Fortress-Shrine of Vaul 's Anvil . |
| 11 | Results in the 71 seats in electoral districts , where the winning candidate was required to secure over 50 per cent of the votes , were decisive for only 13 seats ( 10 of them won by the DLP ) . |
| 12 | It was the last either of them spoke as the Ferrari raced through the night . |
| 13 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 14 | 65 came from 68 balls , with 53 of them debited to the Warwickshire man . |
| 15 | The licence fee was £71 , all of which went to the BBC . |
| 16 | Turnover increased 66.7% to £11.2m , some £8m of which came from the US company . |
| 17 | In 1983 Spain 's indigenous oil production almost doubled to nearly 3 million tonnes , most of which came from the Casablanca field ; however , there is no potential for Spain to be a significant domestic producer . |
| 18 | In a report published in May 1990 the human rights organization Amnesty International found that there was evidence of the use of torture and of deaths as a consequence ; it expressed concern over the government 's inaction in investigating torture allegations — the majority of which emanated from the Casamance region — and in implementing adequate safeguards . |
| 19 | Erm h how erm du n no , how many of you looked at the May the fourth directive ? |
| 20 | And you had a nice weekend , and some of you travelled on the Sunday , I know . |
| 21 | ( This translate instruction is a version of one found on the IBM 7090 computer , and used for implementing decimal arithmetic ) . |
| 22 | As the summer wore on and Dubah 's name kept cropping up in raw intelligence data from DEA/NARCOG informants , Coleman eventually reported to Donleavy that , without ever leaving the country , the Syrian spymaster seemed to have his hand in the pockets of everybody engaged in the Bekaa 's drug traffic , from Damascus to Dearborn . |
| 23 | A staggering quantity of it related to the Daleks , most of which was farmed out to Terry Nation or Raymond Cusick , but the four main characters got their share as well . |
| 24 | Following the opening of the Gloucester-Berkely canal in 1827 , large amounts of grain were transhipped at Gloucester and some of it sent via the Stroudwater Canal to his mills in the Stroud area . |
| 25 | It was assumed that most of it went to the Provisionals and a smaller amount to the Official IRA . |
| 26 | They were preceded by weeks of speculation ( some of it inspired by the Elysée ) and followed by weeks of commentary and exegesis , all of which had the effect of focussing journalistic and public attention on the presidency . |
| 27 | This view is confirmed , not only by the evidence of [ Mr. Bunn ] himself , namely that the wife 's signature on the Monday was a formality , but also the evidence accepted by the judge of what transpired on the Monday , namely , that there was no discussion between [ a bank clerk ] , the husband and the wife , who was merely presented the document for her signature . |
| 28 | Hugo had been the privileged one , his mother an earl 's daughter , his father a baronet and a distinguished soldier , possessor of the Berowne name , inheritor of what remained of the Berowne money . |
| 29 | Of course we welcome the Woolf report and its careful examination of what happened during the Strangeways riot . |
| 30 | The truth of what happened after the Croat surrender at Bleiburg , although equally shocking , is rather more complex . |