Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nine further specimens , including two colonoscopic biopsy specimens , were obtained from patients with ulcerative colitis , all of whom were receiving steroid treatment .
2 Some 12,500 refugees were held at Guantánamo or offshore on US vessels , 3,500 of whom were granted preliminary asylum status after interviews with the Immigration and Naturalization Service .
3 And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year .
4 There was to be no investment in lines to help rural passengers , many of whom were denied easy access to hospitals , doctors ' surgeries , pharmacies , dental facilities and leisure and recreation .
5 Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts .
6 On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel .
7 Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting .
8 However , although the large charitable institutions of the later nineteenth century continued , there are signs that many of them were finding increasing difficulty in raising funds and few significant new charities appear to have been founded .
9 Cycling , like walking , is one of the best ways of seeing and enjoying the countryside , and mountain bikes have proved to be the latest and most popular method of ‘ green ’ transport : over 1 million of them were sold last year .
10 The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt .
11 With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children .
12 The British Museum 's collection , much of which was collected last century or in the early half of this century , was shown by TL to contain some twenty forgeries , most of which had , in recent years , been suspected to be modern .
13 As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication .
14 This type of inspection chamber may also be fitted with a ventilator with a hinged mica flap — the idea of which was to let fresh air into the drains but not let foul air out .
15 The LCAC advice was produced in April , the effect of which was to reject any extension for rights of audience for the CPS and other employed lawyers and the Advisory Committee concluded that the Law Society 's application was inadequate in certain respects .
16 There were four nurses ' rooms each of which was to contain one bedstead , a flock bed , pillow and bolster and two blankets , two pairs of sheets and two pillow-cases ; the porter 's room was similarly furnished .
17 The present pattern of Business Studies degrees , in many respects , reflects the state of thinking of commerce degrees of the late 30s , most of which had disappeared by or soon after 1950 , in favour of a more discipline-oriented approach in which there were substantial new elements , with the appearance of sociology and politics , both of which were to acquire greater prominence .
18 It follows the company 's 1.6″ high 0663 , 250,000 of which were shipped last year according to IBM .
19 One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’
20 Like all Mercantile and General-owned farms , two of which were sold last year and a fourth is also under offer , it had been well-maintained .
21 Commissioned by Chapman & Hall , not as a novel but as the letterpress for a series of comic designs by Robert Seymour , 4 of which were to appear each month , about a club of sporting characters ; at that date novels were not published in monthly parts , a form commonly used for illustrated works .
22 Well if the people at the back of her were having terrible row ah I I ha I hated it , it was horrible .
23 Now I love the Labour Party and a lot of what was said this morning was painful .
24 Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee .
25 Against them were marshalled industrial capital in coal mining , shipping and shipbuilding led by the great radical ( Karl Marx 's description ) Joseph Cowen .
26 ‘ It has to do with what was said last time I was here . ’
27 In it were tucked all manner of bills , receipts and postcards bearing on the activities of the club .
28 After twenty minutes , her breakfast tray arrived ; upon it was boiling red soup , chocolate ice cream , and a fizzy orange drink .
29 In what was to become typical behaviour for mining companies in Ireland , the company did not ask local landowners for permission to enter their lands to prospect .
30 Fitted with a 100hp Sunbeam engine and averaging a speed of 90 mph , he out paced all the other competitors and won the race in what was to become true Alcock style !
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