Example sentences of "were of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 2 | All the other deaths were of players who had a history of heart trouble . |
| 3 | In some cases , these loans were of theses which had already been checked , but there were some new records , and some for which access had not otherwise been possible . |
| 4 | The remaining four records were of patients who had presented to neurology departments after 1983 . |
| 5 | But for him too , as for most working-class children ; the closest memories were of grandparents who lived nearby and could be seen frequently . |
| 6 | ( None of the other photographs shared this particular composition , though some were of personalities who could be thought of as ‘ hunky ’ men — Philip Schofield , for instance . ) |
| 7 | The police would not necessarily assume that the bones in the graveyard were of people who had lived at Wyvis Hall , nor that those who had brought about their deaths had lived there . |
| 8 | The earlier prints on the film were of men who were being rolled across canvases covered in paint . |