Example sentences of "[prep] which [was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could match their lending more closely with their borrowing , much of which was for specified periods of time . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union 's foreign debt ( previously a state secret ) was revealed to be the equivalent of 33,600 million roubles in January 1989 , 28,100 million of which was in convertible currencies . |
| 3 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 4 | They used cassette-recorders to circulate poems and songs , some of which were about current affairs , others political in the sense that they recounted events in which Zuwaya acquitted themselves well . |
| 5 | He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect . |
| 6 | In 1958 the appeal to which de Gaulle responded came not from the " eternal fatherland " submerged by foreign forces but from the European settlers and the French army in Algeria , elements of which were in open insurrection against the legal , democratic government . |
| 7 | Close ties with a medical publisher had enabled us to monitor early attempts to move from a traditional print-based publishing enterprise to new technologies : laser-disc publication had proved wasteful and made too many demands of staff with no experience in editing or marketing such material , let alone its production ; on-line database publication drawing on the company 's range of printed publications , many of which were in electronic form anyway before imprisonment on paper , proved more compatible with existing operations and more amenable to the skills of existing staff . |