Example sentences of "whom [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At its height the ‘ feudal ’ system meant that Sussex could muster over 300 fully equipped mounted men , 84½ of whom were the responsibility of the Earls of Arundel and another 60 of the de Warennes ; the bishop of Chichester had to find four . |
| 2 | The real problem was the mobilization of resources : Edward experienced difficulty in collecting revenue in England , and relations between the king 's advisers in Brabant , chief amongst whom were the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl of Northampton , and the council in England , dominated by the clerical ministers of state , gradually deteriorated . |
| 3 | He had numerous sons and daughters , legitimate and illegitimate , some of whom were the progenitors of many of Scotland 's leading noble families . |
| 4 | The miners worked for 14 shillings a week , making vast fortunes for the shareholders , chief of whom were the Russell family , who had acquired the land after the dissolution of the Benedictine abbey at Tavistock . |
| 5 | And some just disappeared , vanished never to be seen again , taken who knew when or where — though by whom was no mystery . |
| 6 | Not many recruits were usually needed ; at full strength a Marine chapter numbered a thousand able warriors , who might well live for two hundred years and more , and the loss of any one of whom was a tragedy . |
| 7 | It fielded 325 official candidates ( not one of whom was a woman ) and supported some 40 independents , several of whom were adopted by the party during the course of the campaign . |
| 8 | Borsellino , 54 , was arriving at the block of flats where his mother and sister lived , when the bomb killed him and five of his bodyguards , one of whom was a woman . |
| 9 | In 1982 I had sex with three people , one of whom was an American . |
| 10 | Philip the Fair 's interventions in the 1290s were still guided and determined by the appeals of the allegedly wronged and disaffected vassals of the magnates , the greatest of whom was the king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 11 | Under the old concession , the Inland Revenue would give its approval to a group scheme which included a JOC provided certain conditions were met : the JOC was controlled by two people neither of whom controlled the company and one of whom was the grantor of the relevant scheme ; and the relevant scheme was extended to the JOC by only one of its two joint owners . |
| 12 | The next question is : If Jesus died for me and paid the ‘ price of sin ’ , to whom was the penalty paid ? |