Example sentences of "these was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lady Randolph acquired a number of romantic attachments ; the most serious of these was with Count Kinsky , a diplomat in the Austro-Hungarian embassy in London .
2 The first or these was through control over matters of taste .
3 The most important of these was at Amsterdam for the first meeting of the World Council of Churches 1948 .
4 The earliest of these was at Kiev where , in 988 , Vladimir , Grand Duke of Kiev was converted to Christianity and from this time onwards he and his successors encouraged commerce and cultural exchange between the area and Constantinople .
5 The most famous of these was in September 1233 , when Siward and several score raiders rode across England into Berkshire and pillaged a manor of Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v . ] .
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