Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve bedsteads were urgently required and were ordered from Messrs. Kilpin and Leach ; the mattresses and ticking for them were obtained from the House of Industry . |
| 2 | These changes have been touched upon several times in this book already and the reasons for them were considered in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | In common with Descartes , Boyle developed a mechanical philosophy in which the properties of bodies and the interactions between them were explained in terms of material particles and their motions . |
| 4 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |
| 5 | Now the pillars of flesh between them were stiffened with bony rods and the first pair of these bones , slowly over the millennia , gradually hinged forward . |
| 6 | The result was the duck decoy , consisting of an artificial pool with pipes leading off which were covered with nets and lined with screens . |
| 7 | Elevations were ultimately reduced to a matrix of concrete-encased steel beams and columns , the voids between which were filled with large , gridded , steel-framed windows surmounting low infill panels of brickwork . |
| 8 | A new constitution is under discussion , proposals for which were made in June 1991 [ see p. 38290 ] . |
| 9 | Tenders were sought for a prototype body , 50 feet long and 8 feet wide , clearances for which were tested with the remaining Coronations . |
| 10 | Pensions and unemployment payments were based on an insurance scheme , the funds for which were raised by taxes levied on both workers and employers . |
| 11 | The memorandum represented a culmination of protracted negotiations over the status of Koreans , many of whom were descended from those who had been transported to Japan during the Pacific War for the purposes of forced labour . |
| 12 | Despite its voluntary redundancy programmes , total employment for the year was up about 3,500 people , some 3,050 of whom were gained through the infilling acquisitions the company regularly makes . |
| 13 | About 1,200 fascists marched to Olympia on the day and the meeting was attended by about 10,000 potential supporters and 2,000 ‘ blackshirts ’ , half of whom were acting as stewards . |
| 14 | Draped in a red feather boa , she playfully cuddled her quintet of dancers , all of whom were dressed in Sailors outfits . |
| 15 | 20,000 pensioners , all of whom were obliged by law to pay into a pension fund are thought to be affected . |
| 16 | Four robbers , two of whom were believed to be armed , threatened two security guards at the side entrance of the post office in Constitution Street close to the headquarters of Tayside police in Bell Street . |
| 17 | It gives refuge to the largest single concentration of Palestinians , almost 900,000 of whom were registered with UNRWA in 1988 , and about another 210,000 who were displaced across the Jordan river as a result of the 1967 war . |
| 18 | In all 79 competitors completed the event but the day belonged to the juniors — four of whom were placed in the top ten . |
| 19 | The answer lies in part in the social position of the reformers who belonged to the professional rather than the employing middle class : they were social workers , teachers , social scientists , philosophers , clerics , doctors , and psychologists , the majority of whom were distanced from the realities of the labour-market . |
| 20 | The newspapers were particularly impressed by the appearance in Marylebone court of 88 people in a single day , 70 of whom were charged with disorderliness of some sort , although The Times ( 16 August 1898 ) observed that ‘ the majority of cases were of a very ordinary kind ’ . |
| 21 | Troops were deployed to disperse the protesters , several of whom were charged with assault . |
| 22 | Woden , the Scandinavian war god , was thought to lead this band of spirits , all of whom were once kings ruling different fiefdoms and all of whom were killed in battle . |
| 23 | They took several prisoners , two of whom were killed in a later skirmish . |
| 24 | Other sufferers from popular hatred were foreigners , particularly Flemings , a number of whom were killed in London and East Anglia ( 78 , pp.195–8 ) . |
| 25 | A perceived lack of response may have been a factor in the withdrawal of these patients , but deterioration of eczema was the principal reason for withdrawal in only 8 patients , 7 of whom were assessed at least once on treatment . |
| 26 | He was writing in the Origin for readers most of whom were steeped in Victorian optimism , religion and the romantic movement . |
| 27 | The Wokingham Blacks grew in number and audacity , local sheriffs were met with silence from the locals , many of whom were related to the gang , while others were fed and clothed by them . |
| 28 | In Whitehorse the RCAF personnel maintained close relations with the USAF base there , and I was soon on speaking terms with the Americans , most of whom were engaged in flying or servicing aircraft operating between the States and Fairbanks , Alaska . |
| 29 | This , as Economist journalists discovered , proved to be a highly unorthodox meeting , as two outsiders , neither of whom were bound by the Privy Counsellor 's oath of confidentiality , were in attendance : ‘ Chaired by Mrs Thatcher , [ the meeting ] was attended , unusually , for part of the time , by two outsiders : Sir John Cuckney , Westland 's chairman … and Mr Marcus Agius , a director of Lazard 's , Westland 's financial advisers . ’ |
| 30 | Troops entered the hotel and arrested an estimated 1,500 demonstrators , many of whom were beaten before being taken away . |