Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [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 | All those are practical methods , all of them are working , and all of them are delivering better health care and will deliver faster health care . |
| 6 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 7 | Much to mummy and daddy 's despair , none of them are showing any inclination to . |
| 8 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 9 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 10 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ At least fifty per cent of which is documented historical fact , you claim that yourself at the beginning of the book . ’ |
| 16 | It has a Legislative Committee , one of the chief functions of which is to negotiate parliamentary endorsement for such measures . |
| 17 | The grant is awarded to pay toward the costs of a series of three workshops , the purpose of which is to disseminate 16-19 Initiative findings . |
| 18 | It appears that the unemployed are segmented into two groups each of which is accorded different treatment : those who have been unemployed for more than six months and those who have not . |
| 19 | In particular , Vol. 2 provides site accounts for individual sites , within many of which is included botanical information . |
| 20 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It follows the company 's 1.6″ high 0663 , 250,000 of which were shipped last year according to IBM . |
| 28 | 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 … ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |