Example sentences of "of [pron] [was/were] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 The students at Beida , some of whom were on the verge of taking to the streets , probably feared the possible repercussions and with the end of term imminent , they decided that open protest was not worth the risk .
2 The staff of both periodicals were approached by many artists , some of whom were on the list and many more who were not .
3 This was made easier by the fact that all the Imperial residences , with the exception of the small Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , were within easy reach of Paris and all of them were on a direct railway line to the capital .
4 The girls said some of them were on the pill , others were n't because their mams and dads do n't know and they dare n't go to the family planning clinic .
5 He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate .
6 Most of them were on the lean side because of the hard life they led and the long walks they took over hilly country to reach their fields .
7 if both of them were on the same level there would be no falls , there would be no power .
8 It 's like all the , you know , the office , and they said all of them were on the opening today , all , all the stores .
9 And all of a sudden three big juggernauts came into the camp and one of them was on the back of a truck .
10 She sat bolt upright in the back seat during the hour long journey , some of which was on a motorway .
11 Police denied any knowledge of who was on the bike .
12 A constituent of mine was on the verge of being evicted .
13 A bit of it was on the television .
14 Unlike most of what was on the menu , two wines were actually available , a semi-sweet white and a semi-sweet red .
15 The gist of the note was that the vessel ahead of us was on the suspect list and had arrived from a foreign port .
16 When all forty-eight of us were on the stage , we could n't kick in a straight line , so we danced in a semi-circle .
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