Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] were [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But during the three-year period of the initial scheme he also engaged eighteen part-time tutors , some of whom were also car-owners , who visited the more accessible centres such as Biggleswade and Ampthill . |
| 2 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 3 | Other little drones were rushing by , some of which were only decoys . |
| 4 | No , even before this coming to be er came to be we were there and we were men who were different and some of us were even gods and we were pure souls and intellects . |
| 5 | Erm , I should also say that bit about some of us were even gods , erm that also is erm there are some options there on translation erm you could also say men who were different and particular , that is we were and erm particular humans and we were gods . |
| 6 | All of them were either accounts of measures taken by the pope , or — in the letters to the king of Jerusalem and the count of Flanders — recommendations of obedience to the papal policy . |
| 7 | In 1285 in Norfolk they offended the church not only by sitting in church courts and gathering evidence there for indictments of the clergy but also by hearing cases of violence and defamation against the clergy and matrimonial and testamentary suits , all of which were traditionally matters for church courts . |
| 8 | There we saw countless small armies , with their commanders and paid chieftains , all of whom were also arms dealers . |
| 9 | Woden , the Scandinavian war god , was thought to lead this band of spirits , all of whom were once kings ruling different fiefdoms and all of whom were killed in battle . |
| 10 | All these species ( except Woodlarks and Red-backed Shrikes ) breed in other habitats , for example Stonechats in downland scrub , and Nightjars and Tree Pipits as commonly in young forestry plantations ( many of which were once heathlands ) ; but only on heathland do they form a distinct community , which is rapidly declining . |
| 11 | A TNT explosion on Oct. 30 at two ammunition depots near the Pyonggang railway station , 7 km north of the border with South Korea , killed an estimated 120 people , most of whom were reportedly soldiers , the South Korean paper Hangook Ilbo reported on Nov. 6 . |