Example sentences of "of [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) held its congress on March 3 , 1990 , when the 1,000 members present elected a new central committee , most of whom were former Robben Island prisoners , and elected Humeleng Mosala , a theology lecturer at the University of Cape Town , as the organization 's new president . |
| 2 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 3 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 4 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 5 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
| 6 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
| 7 | One of them was local farmer Barry Colman . |
| 8 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 9 | When considering the question of natural monopoly , we found some sufficient conditions for subadditivity , one of which was decreasing ray average cost plus transray convexity . |
| 10 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 11 | Manila 's public transport is based on a multitude of ‘ jeepneys ’ the originals of which were surplus US army jeeps left after the war with Japan . |
| 12 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 13 | We 're selling that with all the other medals some of which were British campaign medals , some were given to him by countries like Poland because of his special friendship or good deeds |
| 14 | Even more remarkable , quite a few of you were certain Mike Channon did play . |
| 15 | On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times . |
| 16 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 17 | All I could get out of 'im was this gymnasium Billy was interested in . |
| 18 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
| 19 | The greatest concentration of bobbin mills was in the Furness district of what was then north Lancashire , and in the mid-nineteenth century more than fifty mills were at work in the region , making half the bobbins used in the entire textile industry of Britain . |