Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.

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1 I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware .
2 One other quality of timber which bears on marquetry , and of which you should always be aware , is that of texture .
3 Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him .
4 Reformation in feeling is the state in which man experiences something of an ultimate reality of which he will only be fully aware after death .
5 Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons .
6 Clark simply refuses to allow that such behaviour by a creature lacking language transforms the content of what they can properly be said to fear or be distressed at .
7 Malik had such a generalized air of gravity that his manner to individuals never conveyed anything of what he might really be thinking .
8 He had been able to appear " normal " because he was abnormal , he was an outsider , he was mad , he saw and desired normality with a piercing vision of what it might ideally be thought to be .
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