Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [num] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mid-September 1989 a total of 71 Penans , a nomadic Sarawak tribespeople , were arrested , of whom 63 were detained for disrupting logging operations [ for disruption in 1987 of commercial logging operations in Sarawak by Penans and other Dayak tribespeople see pp. 35460 ; 36250 ] . |
| 2 | John Praty 's inventory totalled £23 , of which two-thirds were accounted for by livestock , implements , etc. , making him a farmer in all but name : he also held the lease of a mill in Birmingham . |
| 3 | Thirty proposals were submitted for the 2001 launch , of which four were selected for further study . |
| 4 | The summer figures showed three rock climbing fatalities out of a total of 22 deaths in the mountains , of which five were accounted for by illness . |
| 5 | Of the Assembly 's members 500 are from the legislative House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , to which 400 were elected for a five-year term by direct universal adult suffrage in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] ; the remaining 100 were appointed by the President . |