Example sentences of "of [adj] [n mass] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 7 the army announced that a total of 186 people were under arrest . |
| 2 | Some of these sales were to existing publishers . |
| 3 | Some of these people were on my left , some on my right . |
| 4 | Once a number of these people were in place , naturally they wanted to build teams in all the major functions — finance , marketing , personnel , production , R & D — more in their own image . |
| 5 | The rest of my offences were committed in self-defence , when I found the hands of all People were against me . |
| 6 | It is clear from the surviving works by Pasiteles ' pupils that , though they were famed as copyists , their copies of famous works were in fact rather free adaptations . |
| 7 | Two-thirds of disabled people were at or below the poverty line . |
| 8 | Reflecting that a lot of other people were in the same boat , that he was in good company — the Overindebted Minority — might bring temporary comfort and make relations with friends less strained . |