Example sentences of "of which [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Omar al-Bashir , concluded a two-day official visit to Kampala during which Uganda and Sudan signed a non-aggression treaty , in terms of which they also agreed not to allow any hostile armed activity in common border areas . |
| 2 | He married Elizabeth Leonie Knowles , by whom he had eleven children ; their two sons both went to Cambridge University before entering the family business , of which they later became directors . |
| 3 | They were all dressed in about three sets of clothing , each of which they probably slept in , and all had the ingrained grimy faces of people living without running water . |
| 4 | Studies of this kind were influenced first by studies and methods of denudation chronology , of which they naturally formed the later stages , and secondly by developments in the study of the Pleistocene where the work of Zeuner ( 1945 , 1958 ) and the work of geologists ( e.g. Wright , 1937 ; Flint , 1947 ; Charlesworth , 1957 ) had been particularly influential . |
| 5 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 6 | For the lack of overt reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ in his major speeches , and the omission of his name as a signatory to the boycott ‘ appeal ’ can only be seen as a deliberate policy to detach the Führer himself in his public image from the violent anti Jewish rhetoric and actions of which he privately approved . |
| 7 | The defendant was guilty of malicious and unjustifiable conduct in the course of which he unintentionally struck the plaintiff with an autoscythe . |
| 8 | He refused to compromise in any way and , throughout his long association with the club , only mastered two words in English , both of which he frequently practised on referees . |
| 9 | It was later revealed that Ramos had not been consulted over either of the decisions , both of which he later reversed . |
| 10 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 11 | He became a lieutenant in 1811 , and in 1814 commanded the schooner St Lawrence , on the strength of which he later called himself ‘ captain' . |
| 12 | By contrast , the energetic and efficient Clinton campaign ended with a flourish which saw the candidate visit eight states ( seven of which he later won ) in the final 29 hours before polling . |
| 13 | Another aspect of Tom Gibson 's many-faceted talents was his love of music and poetry , both of which he also practised with an original and humorous flair . |
| 14 | John was soon to appear at Exeter in the court of which he previously graced the bench — this time in the dock . |
| 15 | One of the satisfactions , at the secular level , of which he keenly felt the lack was in the gastronomic sphere . |
| 16 | Rumours abounded at the salon regarding the relationship between Alice and le Maître all of which he vehemently denied whenever he heard the gossip . |
| 17 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 18 | Wycliffe was content ; with his hands thrust deep into the pockets of his mackintosh , he watched the crowd , an occupation of which he never tired . |
| 19 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 20 | The competition is on a points basis for eight separate rounds , of which he only missed one . |
| 21 | Her independence was further underlined by an impending marriage , news of which she now shared with Taheb . |
| 22 | This psychological edifice , to the creation and maintenance of which she now devoted her energy , she pictured as a kind of large machine erected inside her body , stretching it out and making her tall and rigid like a hard glistening monument . |
| 23 | As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary . |
| 24 | In 1895 she published a novel , At the Relton Arms , and a short story in the Yellow Book , the staff of which she then joined . |
| 25 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 26 | ‘ Having with difficulty crossed the range over an entire new country , and penetrated to the centre of the dense Eucalypti scrub alluded to , in which I spent a night and part of two days without water for my horses , I was compelled , much to my regret , to beat a hasty retreat back to the ranges , in the gullies of which I even found difficulty in obtaining water . |
| 27 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |