Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 2 | He spared a glance at the ragged specimens of humanity crouched against the wall and wondered how many of them had once been prosperous farmers or innkeepers or tradesmen . |
| 3 | Most of them have never been involved in politics before , though all of them are Labour voters . |
| 4 | These included an ageing Soviet-supplied 8-megawatt plant ; a 50-megawatt and a 200-megawatt plant , both of which were still under construction ; and a 5-megawatt natural uranium experimental facility , the existence of which had previously been unknown internationally . |
| 5 | A more plausible alternative was the renovation of existing buildings , some of which had originally been solid structures . |
| 6 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 7 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 8 | They were no longer men , just the vestigial remains of what had once been human beings . |
| 9 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |
| 10 | None of us had ever been able to discover whether it was a deliberate effect , or the result of pure chance . |