Example sentences of "of [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
2 | Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present . |
3 | There are 118 members of the Red Cross in Darlington , 20 of whom are youth members , who are kept constantly busy . |
4 | Politically reliable officers : 97 per cent of whom are Party members in the GDR , 85 per cent in Poland . |
5 | A dies and his next-of-kin begin practising vengeance-magic against a number of suspects one of whom is B. B eventually dies , to the gratification of A's family , who regard his demise as a judgment . |
6 | It was ‘ nothing more than a clearing house for sexually disturbed cranks , the biggest of whom is Emmanuel Petrakis … |
7 | As Murad II happened to be in Serez at the time , de la Broquière and his companions , one of whom was Benedetto Folco da Forli , the ambassador of the Duke of Milan , set out to meet him . |
8 | Fourteen apprentices were trained by him , the most distinguished of whom was Ralph Greatorex [ q.v . ] . |
9 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
10 | In the 1880s she and her sisters ( one of whom was Constance Garnett , q.v. ) moved to Fitzroy Street , London . |
11 | has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering , and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients , one of whom was G Tec . |
12 | Candidates from the right-wing extremist National Front ( FN ) came second , ahead of the official RPR candidates ( one of whom was Pierre Botton , Noir 's son-in-law and his former campaign manager , running against Dubernard ) . |
13 | The proceedings were reported to the king himself ; they included accusations of waste against forest landowners , one of whom was Sir William Parr , brother of Catherine Parr . |
14 | People like General Orde Wingate were training men , one of whom was David Patterson , one of our clergy , and Pop helped by writing a book on Burmese for them in case they got separated from their units . |
15 | The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September . |
16 | Before Xuxa 's glitzy reign , TV Globo had a variety show , Balao Magico ( the Magic Balloon ) , compered by four lively children ( one of whom was Mike Biggs , son of Great Train Robber , Ronald Biggs . ) |
17 | He offered to talk to the three Ulster MEPs , one of whom was Mr Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionists ' leader . |
18 | 38 people were arrested , 16 of whom were women employees , most of them Kurds fleeing from repression in Turkey . |
19 | Many ministers , the most famous of whom were J. Guinness Rogers and A. M. Fairbairn , wrote in the leading monthlies , at least the Liberal ones , and for many years the Congregational minister of Union Chapel , Islington , Henry Allon , edited the much respected British Quarterly Review . |
20 | Each of these representatives , all of whom were personnel directors or senior managers reporting directly to the board , participated in a structured interview ( see Appendix for details ) which focused on the stimuli , dynamics and politics of the change process . |
21 | The freeing of " political " prisoners continued with the release on Oct 10 of a further 21 people , the majority of whom were ANC members , bringing to 60 the total released since August . |
22 | Gastritis with atrophy was present in 11 old subjects , 10 of whom were H pylori positive . |
23 | Early studies supporting this concept were done using suboptimal techniques on small numbers of subjects , most of whom were hospital inpatients or outpatients with a variety of medical conditions , rather than healthy asymptomatic subjects . |
24 | Moreover , much of the work was methodologically flawed by small numbers of subjects , many of whom were hospital patients rather than healthy volunteers . |
25 | The two old men , neither of whom were football fans , had no idea how important the cargo was . |
26 | Foreign Minister Joaquín Ricardo García was quoted by local radio as saying on July 18 that a total of 13,000 Haitian citizens , most of whom were migrant workers , had left the country " in the last few days " , 2,000 of them forcibly repatriated and the rest having left " voluntarily " . |
27 | A Council of Ministers , nearly all of whom were BSP members , was formed on Sept. 20 . |
28 | When I told my friends Bill Page and Bill Adams , both of whom were bus inspectors and the first of whom had been at Whitgift with me , they were astounded . |
29 | The videotape provided the centrepiece of the proceedings , although there were also 55 witnesses , the bulk of whom were police officers or medical personnel . |
30 | Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme . |