Example sentences of "which there were [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | field Marshal Terauchi Masatake , the first governor-general , believed that rebellious manifestations , of which there were many between 1908 and 1910 , should be suppressed ruthlessly : he was alleged to have said , ‘ I will whip you with scorpions ’ and this conformed with his approach . |
| 2 | Free treatment was available from voluntary hospitals and charitable dispensaries of which there were many in London and the large cities , but few elsewhere . |
| 3 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 4 | Several months later , Batty was asked to make a film about any successful British company to redress criticism that television programme makers were obsessed by those in difficulties , of which there were many in the Seventies . |
| 5 | The tutor-organiser was also best-placed to counsel WEA students considering full-time higher education on adult state scholarships ( of which there were two in Northamptonshire at the time ) ; he was also in a position to attend daytime meetings of local bodies , on behalf of the WEA . |
| 6 | They had seen the windmills of which there were dozens on the plains in the interior of the island . |
| 7 | In subsequent night-recording sessions , of which there were several on the Waverley route , Peter Handford always took care to use a location in a clearing in the woods above Stobs Station rather than return to that first location above the cutting . |