Example sentences of "of [pron] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | To say ‘ I leave ’ ( relinquo ) is to attribute property immediately to the person of whom it is said , rather than to vest it in a trustee . |
| 4 | There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world . |
| 5 | A firm is not in England a legal personality distinct from its members , though in Scotland a firm is a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed ( partnership Act 1890 , s. 4 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 7 | Now , apparently , he was on the staff of Camilien Houde , the infamous mayor of Montreal , of whom it was said he was running the city on the same basis of protection rackets as some of the big-time gangsters of Chicago . |
| 8 | He is one of the select band of teachers ( including Dick and Macqueen ) of whom it was said that they could tell if a horse was lame , merely by listening . |
| 9 | Further concern centred on a proposal to award full employment rights to temporary or migrant workers working on temporary contract , of whom it was estimated that there were over 1,000,000 in April 1990 . |
| 10 | If a socage tenant died without heirs and intestate , his land escheated , i.e. went back to the lord of whom it was held , who in practically all cases had come to be the King . |
| 11 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 12 | An act is ‘ in furtherance ’ of a trade dispute when the doer genuinely believes it will assist the cause in support of which it is done : the House of Lords has emphatically rejected the addition of any requirement that the act be ‘ not too remote ’ or ‘ reasonably likely to succeed . ’ |
| 13 | Since the mental element required for the commission of the the offences of organisation and participation is knowledge which the courts increasingly interpret to require an awareness of all the circumstances by virtue of which it is said that an offence is committed , it may well be sensible police practice to issue a warning before arresting and prosecuting with an offence under this Part of the Act . |
| 14 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 15 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 16 | A gentle rhythm pulses along it , the material of which it is constructed looks like membrane-covered cartilage ( and has a similar consistency ) , and slender blood vessels can be seen under the lining of membrane . |
| 17 | Certain things are excluded from registration such as a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration dictated solely by the function the article has to perform , or which depend upon the appearance of another article of which it is intended to form an integral part . |
| 18 | The photons of which it is composed have extremely high energy , and instead of merely vibrating the molecules of living tissues and heating them , they infiltrate organic molecules and disrupt their chemistry . |
| 19 | For example , the eye is a beautifully organized and complex structure but the parts of which it is composed have , as we have seen , very different developmental histories . |
| 20 | When X-rays are absorbed by matter electrons are ejected from the atoms of which it is composed . |
| 21 | As children 's worlds expand , the home — through the people , animals , and objects of which it is composed — provides educational opportunities . |
| 22 | It can take a flavour from the rich mixture of people of which it is composed . |
| 23 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
| 24 | Interpreting the meaning of a text is not just a matter of adding together cumulatively the individual meanings of the words of which it is composed . |
| 25 | In addition to giving the numbers mentioned above , for each scheme the catalogue names the award , the units of which it is composed and the centre validated to offer it . |
| 26 | Tephra can be categorized on the basis of the size of the pyroclasts of which it is composed . |
| 27 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 28 | Then the spider will roll it up and , so as not to waste the valuable protein of which it is made , eat it . |
| 29 | The Government reckons it will cost about £4 million to implement , 75 per cent of which it is hoped will be clawed back from industry . |
| 30 | Managing director Albero Sandoval places the potential market at 100,000 users , predicting that this will rise to 600,000 subscribers over the next 10 years , of which it is hoped that some 300,000 will use Sistelcom 's system . |