Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 2 | The present search was concerned with those theses with identifiable ‘ D ’ numbers — 142 in total — of which 139 were from the Will listing . |
| 3 | The total number of theses produced in UK universities between 1960 and 1983 was approximately 180,000[00] , of which 3632 were on the physical earth sciences — some 2% of the total . |
| 4 | The total number of theses produced in UK universities between 1960 and 1983 was approximately 180,000 , of which 3632 were on the physical earth sciences — some 2% of the total . |
| 5 | In 1987 in England and Wales there were 9,572 deaths attributable to senile and pre-senile dementia , of which 488 were of the pre-senile type ( OPCS 1989b ) . |
| 6 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 7 | I felt absurdly that we three were on the same side fighting the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Serum samples for measurement of bismuth were collected from 46 patients of whom 25 were in the bismuth group ; only those from the bismuth group were analysed at the end of the study . |
| 9 | Paired before and after treatment juice values were available for only 34 subjects ( 12 with successful H pylori eradication , of whom nine were from the DU trial ; 22 with failed H pylori eradication , 20 from the DU trial ) . |
| 10 | Both needed time to develop their separate objectives and political identities — which , by the nature of their oppressions , were different , even though they both were under the umbrella of EOP . |
| 11 | If they both were of the same logical type , then we could not hope to be able to clarify the distinction between numerical and species identity and the possibility of order in space or time . |
| 12 | Owen and his half-dozen were in the trees by then . |