Example sentences of "of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The most common way for the virus to spread is through unprotected sexual intercourse between two people , one of whom is infected .
2 The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own .
3 The Morellian method had opponents , among them some of the German scholars of whom Morelli made fun by his articles .
4 He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love .
5 Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’
6 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 .
7 Classes at the ‘ City Lit ’ , as it is affectionately known , are handled by a highly competent team of tutors , many of whom teach at the drama schools too .
8 There are , of course , many schools other than those listed in the appendix , and also a great many private coaches , all of whom may be found in the publication Contacts , a trade book everyone interested in joining the profession should obtain from the office of The Spotlight , 42–43 Cranbourn St , London WC2H 7AP .
9 Their numbers include the Augustinians and Dominicans , both of whom have been influential in Ireland and have produced theologians of liberal or left persuasion .
10 Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops .
11 The organization claimed membership from all parts of the South , and its membership contained education specialists , lawyers , people from the media , and civil servants , at least one of whom knew something of the existing channels of power and communication between church and state in the national school system .
12 About 4,600 people in Britain have contracted AIDS , of whom half have died , compared with about 600 four years ago .
13 We 're looking for ten volunteers to take part , each of whom will be sent five plants of each of the eight varieties to grow .
14 It is a salutary lesson on the stability of this precept to see Sir Peter following the precedent set by his predecessors in Sir David McNee and Sir Kenneth Newman , both of whom , as I have indicated above , rejected the internal desire to philosophize or be discursive .
15 Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ .
16 He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’
17 Indeed , it depended on its buying-power for sustenance , for by 1949 the life of a ‘ hit ’ record was about three months , with a market profile of a third under 21-years-old and a further 45 per cent between 21 and 35 ; leaving only one-fifth of purchasers over 35 ( many of whom bought for the younger generation in any case ) .
18 Alan had been in the third coach of the second train and was therefore luckier than the people in the first and second coaches , several of whom were dead
19 I 'm advising Rosita , by the way reminding her of Malcolm Lowry , of whom we 're all fans .
20 We would like to welcome our Ethnic Minorities Development Officer — Meena Patel — and our new Field Officer for Greater Manchester — Maggie Clay — both of whom have started with ACE this month .
21 Many ‘ carers ’ are husbands and wives , but there are also children who look after their parents — these are mainly women , many of whom have work or other family commitments of their own .
22 The figures show that in 1990 , there were 90,843 people over the age of 65 supported by local authorities in all types of accommodation ( of whom 87,652 were in their own or other authorities ' homes ) .
23 Most of Noverre 's ballets dealt with heroes and heroines from Greek , Roman and other epic sources , all of whom had characteristics in common , as do so many modern heroes and heroines .
24 No better example can be given than by citing the careers of Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn , both of whom worked with many different choreographers as well as submitting themselves to the severely classical discipline of the older Petipa repertoire .
25 Nor can one feel any sympathy for the various ladies in his life , all of whom conform outwardly to the strict etiquette of the enclosed society of the Austrian court .
26 On the positive side CAMRA can point to the success of the independent brewers , many of whom would not exist today but for the interest in cask ale generated by the Campaign .
27 It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind .
28 What is true of Nietzsche is surely true of Derrida , of whom there are many competing versions ; Norris presumably believes that his contains the truth , without distancing quotation marks .
29 Indeed , such an academic structure might provide a good opportunity for the exercise suggested by Graff , in which students ( many of whom would probably be women ) would consider a feminist anthology of women poets of the past , and discuss how far they are admissible into the existing poetic canon , and what theoretical criteria might govern such admission .
30 And Tate proceeded to cite , with equanimity and approval , some of the non-English writers whom Eliot had solicited for The Criter- ion , or else had approved there : Charles Maurras , Paul Valéry , Henri Massis , Oswald Spengler — several of whom would not unjustly , though with the benefit of hindsight , be condemned later as Fascist or proto-Fascist .
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