Example sentences of "of [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nine further specimens , including two colonoscopic biopsy specimens , were obtained from patients with ulcerative colitis , all of whom were receiving steroid treatment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year . |
| 6 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
| 7 | In the district that embraces both my constituency and Stockport , there were 20,000 skilled engineers , many of whom were made unemployed . |
| 8 | Children 's homes , therefore , were left to care for an older group of children , many of whom were experiencing severe problems and anxieties about their future , and showing serious emotional and behavioural symptoms . |
| 9 | Amnesty said that it had evidence of children being detained , either on suspicion of illegal political activities , or with their fathers , some of whom were serving heavy sentences for their alleged involvement in the attempted coup of 1981 [ see pp. 31353-54 ; 31563 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was a lot of shouting and shuffling amongst the newcomers , most of whom were feeling bored and restless and had spent too long in the country already . |
| 12 | Pat also went to see Gildas and Ludens , both of whom were feeling guilty because they had not offered to ‘ put him up ’ . |
| 13 | This had been identified by the Allies as an Iraqi command and control centre , but in the event it proved to contain civilians , 300 of whom were reported killed . |
| 14 | During this period , the American 8th Air Force squadrons of Flying Fortresses and Liberators , many of whom were stationed near to us in the vicinity of Cambridge and Huntingdon , were doing daylight raids deep into Germany , and were rapidly finding out that it was not as easy as they had expected . |
| 15 | Three branch officers — Kerrison , Parsons and Bock — all of whom were to become key political figures , were included among the eight women serving on the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee by 1922 ( MCWC Minutes 11 May 22 ) . |
| 16 | A part of me was do terrified , that I did n't have anything to lose when my turn came , which is why I refused what they wanted to do to me . |
| 17 | Armed members of the breakaway group New Islamic Jihad seized control of the nearby town of Mansheit Al Kahk , but were overpowered by police on April 30 , when 15 of them were shot dead . |
| 18 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 19 | All of them were wearing these old-fashioned clothes from hundreds of years ago , and several had on very peculiar hats and bonnets . |
| 20 | Four of them were taking regular non-steroidal anti inflaammatory agents , one was subsequently found to have Crohn 's disease of the duodenum , and one to have the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome . |
| 21 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 22 | We soon found that some of them were using this for various extra-curricular activities . |
| 23 | Is it not time that many of them were made available to schools , colleges , banks and building societies so that the treasure trove of Britain is available to everyone ? |
| 24 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 25 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 26 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 27 | Originally some of them were painted yellow but these days they are almost always painted flame-orange . ) |
| 28 | By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle , stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes . |
| 29 | There was an atmosphere , as always when the two of them were left alone together . |
| 30 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |