Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as Humphreys is concerned , firms which occupy the high ground in executive search are not necessarily limited in the variety , volume or type of search work that can be undertaken ; for example , Tyzack 's recent work includes finding the chairman of London Transport , looking simultaneously for three chief executives for an international trading company in the Far East , Europe and the US ( none of whom was to earn less than US$450 000 ) , searching for the chairman of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission , tracking down the chief executive of a building society and the MD of a conglomerate which , during the search , was defending itself against likely take-over bids . |
| 2 | They had three daughters , none of whom was connected with the family business . |
| 3 | The rest of the time he caught snapper or conch or lobster , and brooded over the souls of his ramshackle family ; each of whom was named for a different book in the Bible . |
| 4 | The men , one of whom was named as Ernest Joma , were quickly arrested , however , and two hours later the then Information , Ideological Guidance and Co-operative Development Minister , Simon Pierre , broadcast a message denying that any coup had taken place and calling for calm . |
| 5 | Public concern was also heightened on Sept. 29 by an announcement that the prosecuting authorities were ending their investigation into the cases of 12 other politicians , none of whom was named , who had received some of the Sagawa Kyubin money originally given to Kanemaru . |
| 6 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 7 | The marriage produced four sons and three daughters , the youngest of whom was born seven months after her husband 's death , at the age of forty-one , in the influenza epidemic of 1918 . |
| 8 | They had two sons ( one of whom was killed in action near Armentières in 1915 ) and two daughters ( one of whom died in infancy ) . |
| 9 | They had three sons , one of whom was killed in World War I , and three daughters . |
| 10 | There were three women before her , none of whom was dressed in black . |
| 11 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |
| 12 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |
| 13 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 14 | The men , none of whom was injured , had been taking part in the Isle of Man Midnight Race , an annual event organised by Tranmere Sailing Club . |
| 15 | It was full of knights , one of whom was dying in the arms of a fair maiden . |
| 16 | I overheard a conversation between two women , one of whom was talking about her new grandchild . |
| 17 | This , together with the replacement of three jurors during the course of the trial — one of whom was removed only a day before the jury 's deliberations began — was thought likely to form the basis of an appeal against the convictions . |
| 18 | Among the local families who had dealings with the duke were the Ratcliffes of Bradley near Skipton , one of whom was retained by Gloucester for service in the Scottish campaign of 1480 . |
| 19 | Among the local families who had dealings with the duke were the Ratcliffes of Bradley near Skipton , one of whom was retained by Gloucester for service in the Scottish campaign of 1480 . |
| 20 | As £20 in goods was the most any of them owned , the business of the Gobles of Petworth , one of whom was fined in 1562 , must have been quite modest ; a namesake of Thomas Page , the Alfriston defaulter , had 20 marks , and a possible forebear of George Partrych of East Grinstead was a small landowner with £5 a year . |
| 21 | Of the three carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen ( all positive for antibodies to hepatitis B e antigen ) one was a general practitioner 's receptionist and two were nurses , one of whom was known through antenatal screening to be a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 22 | The smugglers have gone , the last major encounter being in 1831 , when six coastguards armed with muskets surprised about forty smugglers at Whitsands , only one of whom was caught while heading for Sheviock . |
| 23 | The University had 2000 teachers and more than 10,000 students , each of whom was required to produce a book every year on the nature of consciousness and the human mind . |
| 24 | Although that lifeboat station was not operating during the war the crew were from a lifeboat family , one of whom was awarded a Bronze medal for Gallantry some 30 years later . |
| 25 | Now come on this is a check of who was listening |
| 26 | Her renegotiations with Branson over her contract now became a question of who was using whom . |
| 27 | On the right , the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander . |
| 28 | And then it was a question of who was to conduct the piece . |
| 29 | Well , you start out by reading any books that you can find to give you an idea of who was involved , and my next stop after that was the Library of Congress in Washington , where they have the papers of the National Consumers ' League , which was Florence Kelly 's organisation , and , and contains most of her own personal records , too . |
| 30 | Because he knew all the individuals , he could keep track of who was getting the lion 's share of the meat . |