Example sentences of "of [pron] 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 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 . |
| 13 | It follows the company 's 1.6″ high 0663 , 250,000 of which were shipped last year according to IBM . |
| 14 | 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 … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well if the people at the back of her were having terrible row ah I I ha I hated it , it was horrible . |