Example sentences of "of [pron] were [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to prove his point he cited beside the names of Matisse and two or three other painters who had been Fauves those of Robert Delaunay , Henri Le Fauconnier , Jean Metzinger , André Lhote and Marie Laurencin , all of whom were at some time or another involved in the Cubist movement . |
| 2 | As the witness concerned , Terry Gill , had to be omitted ( though he remained a suspect ) ; that left Alan Tate and Mark Garland , both of whom were of medium height , slight of build and certainly capable of the agility required . |
| 3 | And in Normandy , both Henry I and Henry II favoured ‘ new men ’ , some at least of whom were of modest families . |
| 4 | It was interesting to note , in view of CATE pressures to involve teacher-tutors , that there were only six bought-in staff , five of whom were in one institution . |
| 5 | Official figures put the casualties at seven dead and 22 wounded , but independent sources estimated that 16 demonstrators and two policemen had been killed and 350 demonstrators injured , 66 of whom were in critical condition . |
| 6 | By the close of the fourteenth century English Kings had at their disposal a small but effective group of civil servants , most of whom were in clerical orders . |
| 7 | And then there were eight Hearthwares , seven of whom were in full armour . |
| 8 | But few of them were of good family or had prospects which were worthy of consideration . |
| 9 | But erm , and I was looking through all these posters and most of them were of nude women ! |
| 10 | They certainly performed the other functions of the chapel of the contemporary kings of Germany ; and it is doubtless significant that some of them were of German origin . |
| 11 | In his evidence to the Committee , Keynes identified seven possible classes of remedy for depression , and assured his colleagues that practically all of them were of some value . |
| 12 | Because of their involvement with the W family , some of them were by this time quite familiar with the Scottish Office ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document . |
| 13 | Christina was interested too , and the two of them were in good spirits when Stephen drove into the dry , scrubby car park in front of the Crane Beach Hotel , which from that aspect seemed an unremarkable low-level with thirties undertones to the architecture . |
| 14 | All of them were in that sense authoritarians . |
| 15 | More importantly , however , David Agnew , the collector of Wigtown , McCulloch of Torhouse , the controller of customs , Gordon of Drumbeg , the surveyor , and a tide waiter named McKeen , were also councillors , and all of them were in some danger of losing their posts for incompetence if nothing worse . |
| 16 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 17 | They used cassette-recorders to circulate poems and songs , some of which were about current affairs , others political in the sense that they recounted events in which Zuwaya acquitted themselves well . |
| 18 | He had inherited four major outlets : in New York , Paris , London and Rome , all of which had come through the war intact , all of which were in prime locations , and all of which had suffered from neglect . |
| 19 | In 1958 the appeal to which de Gaulle responded came not from the " eternal fatherland " submerged by foreign forces but from the European settlers and the French army in Algeria , elements of which were in open insurrection against the legal , democratic government . |
| 20 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 21 | Close ties with a medical publisher had enabled us to monitor early attempts to move from a traditional print-based publishing enterprise to new technologies : laser-disc publication had proved wasteful and made too many demands of staff with no experience in editing or marketing such material , let alone its production ; on-line database publication drawing on the company 's range of printed publications , many of which were in electronic form anyway before imprisonment on paper , proved more compatible with existing operations and more amenable to the skills of existing staff . |
| 22 | First of all it comes from the top , I think all of us were in great sympathy with what Harris and the American generals had to do . |