Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 2 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Other notable absentees included Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre and Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo as well as André Kolingba of the Central African Republic and Cameroon 's Paul Biya , both of whom were conducting election campaigns . |
| 5 | The protesters , many of whom were holding prayer books and candles , called for the resumption of the national conference which had been suspended in January [ see p. 38706 ] . |
| 6 | The Russians lost some 250,000 men , 40,000 of whom were taken prisoner , and loo guns . |
| 7 | He had also amassed a prolific following of female devotees , several of whom were anticipating betrothal and all of whom were surprised to hear of her existence . |
| 8 | The victims of the death squads were usually the poor and destitute , most of whom were abandoned street children and petty criminals . |
| 9 | Below them were moored feluccas with their long thin yards curving back and up from the masts in the same immaculate line . |
| 10 | Whatever war was being fought below them was taking place either at the long range of bombardment or the short range of a brawl . |
| 11 | Some of the missioners were deaf themselves , but most of them were hearing people who were either related to someone deaf or with some other chance connection with deafness . |
| 12 | She was in all her bridal finery , although her son was already born , poised stiff on her arm in a dress of the same stuff , and both of them were wearing starburst crowns on their heads . |
| 13 | Most of them were wearing wellingtons . |
| 14 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 15 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 16 | Some of them were clutching tubes of beer , bottles of chianti . |
| 17 | I might have suffered — seventeen years waiting for promotion , for some of them were made sergeants very soon . |
| 18 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 19 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 20 | Half of them were given AZT and the rest got placebos or dummy capsules . |
| 21 | Most of them were accorded pseudonyms ( ‘ I will call her Sylvia ’ ) and given a few lines of narrative , where their function was little more than to illustrate our hero 's appetite and prowess . |
| 22 | Most of them were carrying bows , but even those who had arrows nocked were not aiming at anything in particular . |
| 23 | Some of them were carrying placards , with slogans that read : Stop the war against Russia , No guns for Poland and Help for the Soviet people . |
| 24 | Two of them were making adjustments with hand tools . |
| 25 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 26 | She said that not all of them were overgrown boys like me . |
| 27 | So we , on the small scale , for just bits and pieces , got m several jobs and one of them was moving stuff from the biology labs and the physics labs from Archbishop 's to take it all the way across town to go to Queen Anne 's school . |
| 28 | One of them was named Galway Bay , but of the bay itself , famous in song , I could see no sign . |
| 29 | And that 's where I used to work in but that 's the reason I left , because I thought actually some of them was getting kind of uppish . |
| 30 | Kenneth Horne and the producer Jacques Brown , went with Williams to the South Coast to see the show , The Foll De Rolls — the whole purpose of which was to view Pertwee at work . |