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A backup external memory containing several data files

Of-PP

functioning in an NP

  1. attribute: a man of courage.
  2. carrier: the color of the sky.
  3. origin: a man of noble birth.
  4. the whole it belongs to: the handle of this spot (physical whole) | skeletons of whales (anatomical whole) | the innermost depths of the human soul (spatial whole; metaphor).
  5. content, domain: the problem of the low birth rate | the way of life | the world of individual emotions | by an effort of memory.
  6. possessor: the assets of a nation.
  7. cause: the shock of the news.
  8. composition: a wall of stone | a morass of complicated mathematical equations.
  9. the time it belongs to: the winter of 1924–1925.
  10. producer: the works of Shakespeare.
  11. apposition: the city of Rome.
  12. relative: the brother of John.

functioning in a VP

  1. origin: he was born of a wealthy family.
  2. ingredient: that house is made of brick.