Example sentences of "of [noun pl] involved was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the number of elephants involved was 17 — not easily divisible in those proportions . |
| 2 | Whilst geological studies were employed during the last War , in surveys of landing beaches , roadway planning , water supply , bridges etc. , the number of geologists involved was very small , and the situation today is unlikely to be greatly different , although for security reasons the numbers are not published . |
| 3 | Whilst geological studies were employed during the last War , in surveys of landing beaches , roadway planning , water supply , bridges etc. , the number of geologists involved was very small , and the situation today is unlikely to be greatly different , although for security reasons the numbers are not published . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it is worth noting that although the proportion of English-language material which had been obtained by purchase was small ( 4% , as opposed to 93% in the case of foreign-language material ) , because the number of items involved was substantially higher , in numerical terms these items — many of them probably North American publications — outnumbered non-English-language purchases by a factor of three to one . |
| 5 | The number of students involved was 240 . |