Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 2 | The experts who study child abuse — most of whom come from the medical and psychological professions — tend to adopt a rather different approach . |
| 3 | The big question now is whether Communist MPs , most of whom come from the old school , will apply for membership of the new party . |
| 4 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |
| 5 | Others put the current figure for the Roman Catholics alone at about 1,500,000 , the majority of whom came from the Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 6 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 7 | Most of them are opportunists , most of them come from the local area they 'll know the housing estates and whatever happens . |
| 8 | The point is — and our survey reveals it — that such an amount does deter some youngsters from participating in tournaments and again with respect , I would guess that few of them come from the lovely part of the country from where you write . |
| 9 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 10 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 11 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 12 | The SPA won 38 seats with 25 per cent of the vote , only six of these seats being directly elected and 32 of them coming from the 40 seats to be allocated on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 13 | She told Richard a number of stories on the subject , some of them taken from the daily papers , and suggested that he might turn the matter over in his mind . |
| 14 | They used to swap aluminium ore for shiploads of them imported from the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Six of them originated from the same bar on Corfu — 500 miles from the island of Kos where Ben first vanished . |
| 16 | There is one selective co-educational secondary school at Worcester College and a large all-age school at Exhall Grange , Warwickshire , both of which draw from a national catchment . |
| 17 | Companies have other attractions besides the limitation of members ' liability , most of which flow from the separate legal personality with which corporations are endowed under English law . |
| 18 | Contracts for the acquisition of computer equipment and software present special problems , many of which flow from the unique nature of computer technology . |
| 19 | In Catnic Components Ltd. v Hill & Smith Ltd. [ 1982 ] , the plaintiff obtained a patent for a load bearing lintel , the main strength of which came from a vertical metal rear face . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , UMNO is using the tactics that come with experience : Malaysia 's prime minister , Dr Mahathir Mohamad , is ostracising the Kelantan chief minister and putting the squeeze on the state 's budget , two-fifths of which comes from the federal government . |
| 21 | Australia is some 65% self-sufficient in oil , 90% of which comes from the Bass Strait field . |
| 22 | Listening to these ‘ old ’ recordings , most of which date from the early days of this century up to 1939 , one is conscious of a technical vocal mastery , musical understanding and intensity of communication that bridges the years . |
| 23 | The museum is housed in a former manor house , parts of which date from the 15th century including a Great Hall and an oakpanelled room . |
| 24 | As in so many villages , the parish church is the oldest building , the earliest parts of which date from the 13th century . |
| 25 | It belongs to a group of ‘ Venus ’ figurines most of which date from an early phase of the Upper Palaeolithic found over a territory extending from the Pyrenees and North Italy to Central Europe and South Russia . |
| 26 | Even the opening report of him comes from an unusual source — his own vivid memory of how he learned to walk . |
| 27 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 28 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 29 | Since Shaw and his team took over profits have recorded a sevenfold increase to £218 million — two-thirds of it emanating from the rich North American market . |
| 30 | The unfortunate thing is that a good part of it came from an unexpected direction . |