Example sentences of "of [pron] be [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.

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1 Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf .
2 Franca explained that Alison had been quite overcome by seeing the familiar school scene and the dancer , some of whom were professionals whom she knew .
3 Certain non-royal persons , all of whom were men who had held official posts , were honoured as gods during the course of Egypt 's long history .
4 In 1701 – 2 , the Whig mayor of the small corporation of Wilton , Wiltshire , created nineteen new burgesses , all of whom were Dissenters who did not even qualify under the terms of the Corporation Act , with the result that in 1702 he was able to reverse the defeat suffered by the Whigs in the election of the previous year .
5 About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all .
6 ‘ All of them are groups who work together on specific tasks under a single section head or foreman .
7 well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ?
8 Many of them were students who worked their passage to Liverpool as cattlemen aboard the cattle-steamers before the days of full-scale refrigeration , and used the Liverpool office to cash their generous allowances .
9 ‘ Some of you are emigres who , for one reason or another , have direct knowledge of KGB methods or operations in the USSR or abroad , but particularly in the United States .
10 In front of him was Chernayev who had not practised his trade of thieving for seventeen years .
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