Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the élitists , many of whom wish to compensate for working-class children 's loss of traditional agricultural satisfactions through a mainly affective curriculum , Searle recommends creativity to strengthen working-class children 's confidence and pride in their own identity . |
| 2 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 3 | These writers were , the Woods claim , defending the declining way of life of the landed aristocracy , challenged by urban developments which saw the rise of traders , manufacturers , artisans and wage-labourers many of whom had migrated from rural areas where they had worked as slaves and peasants for the old nobility . |
| 4 | About 70 , one third of whom had arrived by public transport , a twelfth by Park and Ride . |
| 5 | COPPES won its demand to have a specialized gynaecologist attend the prisoners , many of whom have suffered from multiple rapes by the security forces with obvious consequences . |
| 6 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 7 | A few scientists began to think in terms of ‘ Little Bangs ’ ; later , more of them began to wonder about white holes . |
| 8 | All of them seemed to have in common a cold dislike of children and a determination to do as little as possible for their inadequate wages . |
| 9 | It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult . |
| 10 | It includes aid already promised ; debt relief that will deliver no new cash ; bilaterally-negotiated grants and credits , many of them tied to trade with particular ‘ donors ’ ( one man 's export subsidy is another 's development assistance ) ; and a variety of loan facilities that may not be drawn and which are , in fact , conditional on further reform . |
| 11 | Many of them refused to work on nuclear projects . |
| 12 | ‘ About half of them fail to comply with European standards . ’ |
| 13 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 14 | They are socially mobile , many of them having risen from working class backgrounds to new heights in the class structure . |
| 15 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 16 | Whatever else , it is clear that a modernist representation would not accurately capture the organizational patterns of contemporary Japanese organization , which have served in the 1980s as if they were a very beacon of postmodernity , given the role that various representations of them have played in recent debates . |
| 17 | The team is weighing young children every month , and about 15 per cent of them have to go to intensive feeding , with high-energy milk to combat the symptoms of kwashiorkor . |
| 18 | The great majority of the children were recommended to the school because they presented severe management difficulties to teachers in mainstream schools and many of them experience a multiplicity of adversities in their personal lives A majority of children have intractable learning difficulties , and few of them have responded to conventional interventions by members of child guidance clinic teams or remedial services before admission . |
| 19 | Some 30pc of them have switched to Labour and around 8pc to the Tories . |
| 20 | A number of important developments in the so-called Iraqi " supergun " affair , details of which had emerged in early April [ see pp. 37390-91 ] , came to light in late April and May . |
| 21 | By then , he had made three albums for Virgin , all of which had sold in enormous quantities , but the contract which he signed in 1972 had not been reviewed . |
| 22 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 23 | The water used by the gas-cleaning plant is cooled by a cooling tower which itself emits two water-vapour plumes , the density of which varies according to climatic conditions . |
| 24 | That this is not always the case is apparent from our policy in cervical cancer screening , the bulk of which has occurred among young women , in whom the risk of dying of cervical cancer is substantially less than among older women , who have not been the focus of public screening policies for this disease . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 26 | A battery of concepts , some of which have migrated from social science jargon to the mass media , identify those on either side of the divide . |
| 27 | These perspectives on the urban problem — many of which have emerged from neo-Marxist debate — need to be treated with some caution . |
| 28 | Primarily associated with fertility , so highly regarded in primitive times for the continuity of the group , this powerful force was often controlled and restricted by taboos , some of which have survived into modern times as codes of social behaviour , but deeply affected by both prudery and prurience which usually operated together . |
| 29 | As neural complexity increases , however , it becomes possible to send the signal to a region of the brain which forms a map of the body surface , parts of which have evolved into sensory organs . |
| 30 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |