Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfortably and expensively furnished , the apartments were staffed by servants many of whom had been with the lady Alianor from the time of her marriage . |
| 2 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
| 3 | She was also handling an interesting portfolio including two public companies , one of which was a small USM quoted property investment company , Capital and Regional Properties , run by Martin Barber , Xavier Pullen and Roger Boy-land , all of whom had been in the property business together for 20 years . |
| 4 | John Allen , chief negotiator for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said : ‘ It is disgraceful that these workers , many of whom have been with the company all their working life , are just thrown on the scrap heap , while the Government sits on its hands and does nothing . ’ |
| 5 | Training is given by experienced practitioners , many of whom have been through the programme . |
| 6 | When the prisoners were moved , two of them had been in The Fleet for thirty years . |
| 7 | Despite a review in 1989 , by the end of 1991 half of all senior registrars were accredited , one third of them having been in the grade for over six years . |
| 8 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 9 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 10 | Since most of them have been in the army of the Lord for many years , church members will no doubt want to give up their best rooms for these dear people . |
| 11 | In doing so he recovered from three consecutive defeats at the hands of outsider Jerry Brown , the most recent of which had been in the Alaska caucus on April 2 , where Brown had won 33 per cent of the vote compared with Clinton 's 30 per cent . |
| 12 | The deal is a boost for the BTG , the future of which has been in the balance since the middle of last year . |
| 13 | Ghana is fortunate in having large accessible bauxite and hydroelectric potential , both of which have been at the centre of the country 's development planning . |
| 14 | It was easy to pin-point the period of time within which the theft must have occurred , and not too difficult — was it ? — to find out where the great majority of you had been during the crucial forty-five minutes . |
| 15 | Certain types of groups only have one way of viewing problems as the right way to look at problems you don if any of you have been in the R C P , Revolutionary Communist Party , you might find that 's a fairly similar sort of thing there 's a party line and dimensions of what constitutes it . |
| 16 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 17 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 18 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 19 | Much of what had been in the public sector of the old bourgeois state would be destroyed , while what had been in private hands would be taken over . |
| 20 | None of us had been outside the camp for many months and every field seemed infinite and exciting . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |