Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eye-witnesses claimed that troops of the elite Special Presidential Division used rifles , hot-water cannons , metal-tipped canes and tear gas to break up the crowd , many of whom were reportedly carrying rosaries and prayer books . |
| 2 | Most people launching weeklies were already weekly publishers , many of whom were also contract printers . |
| 3 | Twenty eight colonic carcinoma tumours were examined , all of which were moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas . |
| 4 | ‘ I also remember that some of us were individually handed pigeons that we were meant to cradle in our hands and then throw into the air in the centre-circle . |
| 5 | Two similar profit-loss lines can be produced with what were earlier called combinations . |
| 6 | The nuclear industry 's current predicament is usually placed in the context of the near melt-down at Three Mile Island in 1979 and the fatal disaster at Chernobyl , the radioactive fall-out from which was still affecting places as far away as the uplands of Wales and Scotland four years later . |