Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the twentieth century these figures were replaced by police statistics which , unlike the earlier series , included cases for which there was no specific accused person , but excluded cases which the authorities believed were false . |
| 2 | Subjects for whom trial-type ( i.e. whether the sample was red or green ) and reward-type were correlated learned more readily than subjects for whom there was no consistent relation between type of trial . |
| 3 | Under the Soviet system , it was little more than a bureaucracy to collect personal savings for which there was no other legal outlet . |
| 4 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 5 | Despite the imperfections of the documents , he felt to the full his responsibility to preserve and hand over intact to his successor all the rights , privileges , and possessions of which he was the divinely constituted guardian . |
| 6 | The Special Commissioner ruled in this dispute that , for the purpose of valuing shares in private companies for which there was no market , under s 38 , FA 1975 only arm 's length sales for cash in shares in the same companies were admissible as evidence . |
| 7 | First , the judicial history in England was examined and explained by reference to legislative circumstances for which there was no parallel in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | Ballymacarrett was the only one of the three areas in which there was a clear and consistent correspondence between the strength of a person 's network structure and his or her use of vernacular ( or casual ) variants . |
| 9 | BPX bid $6.1 million on the 23 blocks in which it was the apparent high bidder . |
| 10 | In Africa , some of the nations which have emerged from colonial rule are socialist in diverse styles , but others , created by independence movements in which there was an important populist or socialist strain — as in Ghana — and which aimed to achieve some form of ‘ African socialism ’ , developed subsequently under military rule . |
| 11 | But the mid-nineteenth-century bourgeoisie was divided on the nature of that inferiority of the lower classes about which there was no substantial disagreement , though attempts had to be made to distinguish , within the subaltern mass , between those who might be expected to rise into , at least , the respectable lower middle class and those who were beyond redemption . |
| 12 | We would , of course , expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written . |
| 13 | This was emphasised by the distribution of cases in which there was no second party or ‘ other side ’ . |
| 14 | The cases in which there was no constitution , or lesser formality of organization , merge into types of association which are more characteristic of the twentieth century ( though some of the earlier forms have continued ) . |
| 15 | At last , after skirting carefully round some openings from which there was a distinct smell of rats , they halted in a kind of pit . |
| 16 | The analytical techniques of which he was a master were inadequate to separate these metals completely , and he concluded that they merged into one another , being varieties rather than true species produced by inorganic evolution . |
| 17 | On Oct. 15 President Chadli Benjedid announced that the general election postponed since June [ see p. 38312 ] would be held on Dec. 26 , with a second round of voting on Jan. 16 , 1992 , to decide constituencies in which there was no outright winner . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has written to the Leader of the Opposition drawing attention to the many ways in which it was a gross distortion and to the fact that , for example , one in 10 personal computers sold in the world — let alone in this country — is now made in Scotland and that no less than 85 per cent . |
| 19 | Eight patients in whom there was no evidence of gastrointestinal , pancreatic , or hepatobiliary disease served as a control population . |
| 20 | Patients in whom there was a subsequent increase in disease activity were allocated to the alternative treatment group . |
| 21 | The USA would vote against any proposed aid or credits from international institutions to which it was a contributor to the states on the list ( Cuba , Iran , Iraq , North Korea , Libya and Syria ) . |
| 22 | Instead , governments were able to get away with lending fleets of military transport planes and the real benefactors were the armed forces for whom it was a giant PR exercise and useful practice . |
| 23 | Dahl focused upon the making of decisions over which there was an observable conflict of opinion and he studied how that conflict was resolved between the different individuals and groups involved . |
| 24 | Likewise , though a loyal supporter of the societies of which he was a valued member , he managed to remain detached from any of the inevitable petty politics . |
| 25 | To the men under him he was a most considerate and loyal officer , but he had a darker side to his character . |
| 26 | The 25th section of the Act of 1873 dealt specially with a number of points in which there was a difference between Law and Equity , of which the following may here be mentioned : |
| 27 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 28 | The way was of course to put governmental power into the hands of men who were made subject to periodic elections at which there was a choice of candidates and parties . |
| 29 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 30 | Feare ( 1970a ) noted that 10000 of the egg capsules laid in rock pools of normal salinity hatched ; in contrast to only 2700 of the capsules laid in pools through which there was a freshwater run-off . |