Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communists continued to have some success among the unemployed , many of whom felt betrayed by the Labour government and ignored by the TUC . |
| 2 | The general effect of widespread miscegenation was , as in North American the creation of large number of métis , many of whom became assimilated into the ‘ Russian ’ population of Siberia . |
| 3 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 4 | They were mostly staffed by Burghers , many of whom had served the Dutch colonial government . |
| 5 | The creation of the new organization , called the Cuban Democratic Convergence ( Concertación Democrática Cubana — CDC ) , was announced by Gustavo Arcos Vergnes , leader of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights ( CCDH ) and Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz , leader of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation Committee ( CDHRNC ) , both of whom had served prison sentences for alleged political crimes [ see also p. 38186 ] . |
| 6 | By 1917 , vertical integration was a common feature of large US industrial firms , many of whom had adopted the U-form to administer their activities ( see Chandler , 1976 : 29 ) . |
| 7 | These were two ex-marines , one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions . |
| 8 | He had considered what he would say long and hard , he had had discussions with a wide variety of architects , planners and journalists , eighteen of whom had attended a meeting at Highgrove in September . |
| 9 | The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers , a considerable number of whom had complained . |
| 10 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 11 | In addition to Weinberger , the President pardoned former National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane , and former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams , both of whom had pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges of withholding information from Congress [ see pp. 36520 ; 38521 ] . |
| 12 | Two patients were taking antihypertensive drugs ( one captopril and frusemide and the other methyldopa ) , one of whom had impaired renal function and had required laser therapy for retinopathy . |
| 13 | This conclusion is supported by the replies which Michael Müller-Claudius , formerly a psychologist , received to his unique , camouflaged small sample of opinion of sixty-one Party members ( all of whom had joined either the NSDAP or the Hitler Youth before 1933 ) in 1942 . |
| 14 | In the weeks before Christmas , the agent was starting to sack staff , some of whom had joined only a week before the order was issued . |
| 15 | Johnson was told by his lawyers that he , the churchwardens , the Parochial Church Council and LGCM ( all of whom had applied for the faculty ) were likely to lose the case . |
| 16 | Venous blood was tested at random in 124 patients , 64 of whom had received NSAID and 60 who had not . |
| 17 | William was one of 3 brothers ; all of whom had done the Duke of Edinburgh awards . |
| 18 | The George was busy with the stagecoach passengers , two of whom had gone in to bait , the others walking about to stretch their limbs while the ostlers led the exhausted cattle away and brought out a fresh team . |
| 19 | Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy . |
| 20 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 21 | Parliamentary criticisms of Prime Minister René Préval and threats to force his resignation had precipitated angry demonstrations by Préval 's supporters , over 2,000 of whom had gathered outside the parliament building in the capital , Port-au-Prince . |
| 22 | The daughters of two high officials , both of whom had survived the change of regime — both of whom , depending on your point of view , could be seen to have betrayed Akhenaten . |
| 23 | There was a definite sigh of disappointment from the congregation below , some of whom had begun to join in , but then an apathetic silence resumed under the usual , dirge-like strains of ‘ Soul of My Saviour . ’ |
| 24 | With the declaration of war the Cubist painters , many of whom had begun to grow apart artistically , were physically separated , and the movement rapidly broke up . |
| 25 | The rally came amidst reports of dissatisfaction among army officers , some of whom had threatened to resign unless senior defence staff , blamed for Kuwait 's defeat by Iraq in August 1990 , were dismissed . |
| 26 | This group comprised 25 patients ( 12 men and 13 women ) with a mean age of 51 years ( range 30–74 ) , all of whom had documented chronic liver disease ( clinical , biochemical , and histological criteria ) with patient portal vein as shown radiologically . |
| 27 | The conference finished with a debate on the economy , pledging full support to the sacked Timex workers from Dundee and the workers from Rolls Royce at Hillington , the Leyland Daf Albion plant , the Gray Dunn factory , and Rosyth dockyard all of whom had sent delegations to Inverness . |
| 28 | Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution . |
| 29 | The two unknown cardinals may have been the diplomats and curial heavyweights , Peter Gallocia , cardinal bishop of Porto and St Rufina ( to whom Lothar had dedicated his book ) and Octavian , cardinal bishop of Ostia , a powerful Roman , both of whom had opposed Celestine 's favoured candidate . |
| 30 | No.4 Troop had caught a section of German defenders early in the battle as they ran to their alarm posts , but other Germans , many of whom had seen action in Norway in 1940 , tenaciously defended the strongpoints including the improvised fortifications of the Ulvesund Hotel . |