Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Their violently anticlerical tone , occasionally stooping to scurrilous abuse , provoked sharp replies from churchmen , some of whom themselves descended to the level of personal insults , mostly on the score of Cocks 's diminutive size and renowned eccentricity . |
| 2 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The planning directors of eight companies were contacted , of whom one declined to be interviewed on the grounds that his company did not use environmental scanning . |
| 6 | One boy was dead and four were injured of whom one died a year later . |
| 7 | , Elizabeth ( 1769–1831 ) , slavery abolitionist , was born in Leicester in December 1769 , the eldest daughter and second child in the family of two girls and three boys ( of whom one died young ) of dissenting parents . |
| 8 | In 1827 he married Eleanor , daughter of George Lowrey of Ulverston , Lancashire : they had one son and four daughters , of whom one died young . |
| 9 | Being examined by half a dozen people , half of whom one has known extremely well , is what Margaret Mead , the anthropologist , would have termed a ‘ bizarre group situation ’ . |
| 10 | Soon , my brother and I knew , it must separate us , and we lived these last months together in the mutual kindness that ( I hope and imagine ) commonly exists between deeply attached people of whom one has been condemned by the doctors — but we might both be condemned . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a contentious issue and was generally seen as an attempt by the party 's left wing to try to remove some Labour members of whom they disapproved . |
| 13 | They arrive early and leave late , have formed excellent relationships with pupils ( most of whom they know by name ) , staff and kitchen staff . |
| 14 | At Ellon , where the modern road forks right over the bridge on the A92 , and a pretty walk runs along by the river Ythan , the landlady of an inn where they breakfasted wished she had remembered to show to this great doctor ( of whom they had heard ) a child of hers with a chronic lump in his throat . |
| 15 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 16 | As for patients , most are satisfied by all aspects of emergency consultations with deputising service doctors , most of whom they do not know . |
| 17 | How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard ? |
| 18 | Smith devoted some space to explaining how , imbued with martial spirit , yeomen followed the lords of whom they held their land to war , serving on foot as archers . |
| 19 | Who were these actors and actresses of whom they spoke ? |
| 20 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 21 | As revolution followed revolution , I recalled Neville Chamberlain 's infamous remark in the days after he sanctioned Hitler 's partition of Czechoslovakia : ‘ A distant people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 22 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 23 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 26 | They are the fraction of whom we know most . |
| 27 | 95% Political — perhaps necessary for subject , but tend to lose vision of whom we serve |
| 28 | Our Christian motivation is to honour Christ in all we do , including the quality of our work irrespective of whom we work for , whether they are good employers or not . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |