Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
| 2 | They included three vicars , of whom one doubled up as an architect ; a doctor who was also a horse-breeder ; a barrister ; a master builder ; five shopkeepers ; a smallholder and packman ; and — by far the largest group — ten farmers . |
| 3 | If the reason for resorting to war had traditionally been to achieve territorial conquests , to obtain markets and raw materials , or to overthrow leaders of whom one did not approve , then the events of the First World War offered a corrective . |
| 4 | As for patients , most are satisfied by all aspects of emergency consultations with deputising service doctors , most of whom they do not know . |
| 5 | How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard ? |
| 6 | They are the fraction of whom we know most . |
| 7 | I hope that after his next public performance of Odyssey , Simon Rattle will be encouraged to take this amazing score and hold it high in honour of this wonderful composer , of whom we know so little , who has had the courage to write such stirring and inspirational music , at heavenly lengths , in our time . |
| 8 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of EIG . |
| 9 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of ETA . |
| 10 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
| 11 | The numbers attending were usually small but on one occasion the minister ( Mr Dwyer himself , it is implied , ) found that 300 people , some of whom he had never seen before , had gathered to hear him . |
| 12 | Along with scores of authors of whom he had never heard he found forgotten friends : Hugh Walpole , John Galsworthy , and the redoubtable Mazo de la Roche , captivator of millions who would now be devotees of TV soap … |
| 13 | He was arrested and after a trial before the Tribunal , all of whom he knew well , he was sentenced to a year in Peterhead Gaol . |
| 14 | He was survived by two daughters , one of whom he cut out of his will with five shillings because of her marriage to a Tory . |
| 15 | Each token , a seal of approval awarded by the minister to those of whom he approved morally that week , had to be handed up on Sunday ; those without tokens could not receive the sacrament . |
| 16 | And perhaps through the drinking he sought to meet his father of whom he spoke so little and to whom it seemed , the older he grew , he meant so little . |
| 17 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 18 | In the judge 's view , the auditors should have said ‘ bills receivable include bills … payable by an overseas debtor the credit-worthiness of whom it has not been possible to verify ’ , and ‘ subject to satisfactory recovery of the monies , in our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view ’ . |
| 19 | As I was leaving the front of the house two jeeps arrived with wounded aboard , one of whom I recognised straight away . |
| 20 | The only common factor was Mrs Marcia Williams ( now Lady Falkender ) , his private and political secretary , of whom I saw very little , but I saw enough of her to realise the immense influence she exercised over Harold Wilson . |
| 21 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 22 | My application to do research at Cambridge was accepted , provided I got a first , but to my annoyance my supervisor was not Hoyle but a man called Denis Sciama , of whom I had not heard . |
| 23 | We also have a number of collectors , one of whom I visited recently to discover a house so piled with neatly catalogued shoe boxes full of cards that I could not see how he and I might successfully get from the front door to the kitchen without a Sherpa . |
| 24 | Heyward , of whom I have just made mention , writes of Jesus as follows : ‘ Jesus matters only if he was fully , and only , human . ’ |
| 25 | These are evident in the projects of a wide variety of film-makers , artists , novelists , poets and photographers , some of whom I have already referred to . |
| 26 | SIR — The late , great Mr. X , of whom there has never been a more acute analyst of the golf swing , was always emphatic about the ‘ right shin post ’ , as he described it , being an essential requisite of a good swing . |
| 27 | She liked the people — many of whom she knew well , and at least as importantly — many of whom knew her well and had known her since early childhood , before the mark of fame had set her apart . |
| 28 | The woman began to bear witness to the Jesus of whom she knew almost nothing , and was physically beaten up for her pains . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it awoke an unexpected flood of tenderness towards him in her , because it made him so very human , this man of whom she had once been so deeply in awe and whose power over her still unnerved her when she reflected on the realities of their relationship . |
| 30 | We 'll put the names of everyone who answers correctly into a bag from which our winner 's name will be drawn . |