Example sentences of "of [pron] be [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an employer , agriculture occupies some 8m people in the present EEC , the majority of whom are farmers and their families ; only a minority is employed on a wage basis . |
| 2 | ‘ HE has tasted all the bread in the sandwiches and approved the menu although he ca n't try all the fillings because some of them are meat and he is vegetarian ’ — Laurence Myers on the opening of Gary Glitter 's sandwich bar . |
| 3 | While they are on view he hopes to establish which of the pendants are genuine , which of them are fakes and what are the distinguishing factors . |
| 4 | Many of them are ex-socialists and their green wellies have red linings . |
| 5 | Debenhams probably , but the John Lewis 's were excellent , and some some of them were tin and I do wonder if you 're eating on your lap a tin tray might be rather cold but on the other hand , you let the heat from the plate through to your poor little legs . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've forgotten which one of you is Carrie and which one is Ginnie . ’ |
| 7 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |
| 8 | I find myself rather like the old shell man having to look both ways at once , because part of my division is is town and part of it is country and they have very different views about the by-pass erm |
| 9 | The question of what is base and what is superstructure becomes relevant . |
| 10 | The church figured in this document only in the same general terms as it figured in Magna Carta ; there was one reference to prohibitions , but begging still the question of what were temporalities and what were not . |