Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of a ballot announced yesterday showed 78 per cent of parents who voted were in favour of Helena Romanes school in Great Dunmow opting out . |
| 2 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 3 | Like the War Minister , Reitern at the Ministry of Finances accelerated the introduction of changes which had been in the air since 1855 . |
| 4 | A. T. The system then was , there was a number of sergeants who had been in the army . |
| 5 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 6 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 7 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 8 | In 1989 the proportion of pensioners who had been in receipt of income support for three years or more was nearly double that for younger adults ( 76 per cent as against 39 per cent ) ( DSS , 1991 , p. 44 ) . |
| 9 | Robins came across the intact records of a child guidance clinic in St Louis , of children who had been in trouble between 1924 and 1929 . |
| 10 | Scores of employees who had been inside the building and nearby structures staggered from shattered shops and buildings , some of them weeping . |