Example sentences of "[prep] these [was/were] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharing a small spartan room with two other girls — Northerners whose accent Paula found almost incomprehensible and with whom she had nothing in common , making breakfast in the communal kitchen , queuing for the bath , adhering to a strict curfew after which time the doors were locked and bolted — none of these were restrictions Paula had the slightest intention of enduring for long . |
| 2 | The most publicised of these were Three Mile Island in America ( 1979 ) and Chernobyl in Russia ( 1986 ) . |
| 3 | So far it has been an air war : some 15,000 sorties have cost the allies less than 25 aircraft — an astonishingly light price — though five of these were RAF Tornados , lost during very hazardous low-level night attacks on massively defended targets . |
| 4 | Some of these were begging letters from old mill-workers in financial distress , and these Viola consigned to the wastepaper basket , whether or not the writers claimed nebulous acquaintanceship with her late husband . |
| 5 | Many of these were war games which involved the movement of fighting forces and resources over a map on the board . |
| 6 | Seven hundred ( 19% ) were on Scottish earth sciences , and 550 ( 15% ) of these were doctorate theses . |
| 7 | Five hundred and fifty of these were doctorate theses on Scottish geology , almost one-sixth of all UK theses on geology . |
| 8 | More important than either of these were Nnamdi Azikiwe 's West African Pilot , started in 1937 , and a series of other papers he launched in the succeeding years . |
| 9 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most impressive of these was Loughborough College where that fine , sensitive associate of Peter Slade and Brian Way , Stan Evernden , was the first lecturer to evolve a student-centred drama course for potential teachers . |
| 11 | The most prominent of these was Hsu Hsin-liang who returned secretly to Taiwan in September after a decade in exile in the United States . |
| 12 | The most significant of these was Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio , which made it the responsibility of an employee to show that an employer used practices adversely affecting women and minorities without any " business necessity " . |
| 13 | The best known of these was Jane Bloom 's Ch. |
| 14 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 15 | One of these was Ben Lowe 's modest proposal to launch a new national newspaper . |
| 16 | The most famous of these was F W Taylor 's theory of scientific management , set out in a series of publications in the early part of this century . |
| 17 | The first of these was wood engraving , done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife . |
| 18 | One of these was Doctor Jekyll 's house , and Mr Utterson knocked at the front door . |
| 19 | The most important of these was Erwin Rohde , a fellow-classicist and contemporary of his at Leipzig . |
| 20 | The most prominent of these was Alexander Herzen who emigrated in 1847 and in 1853 founded a Free Russian Press in London which launched a tradition of radical émigré journals smuggled into the Empire . |
| 21 | One of these was Piccadilly Circus , the authors observing that : ‘ here the architectural setting becomes a major consideration , although this must not preclude a satisfactory traffic solution ’ ( para. 32 ) — an almost prophetic comment , bearing in mind the events relating to Piccadilly in the 1960s ( see p. 168 ) . |
| 22 | One of these was Francis Newton Souza , who arrived in Britain from India in 1949 and had some success , nationally and internationally , in the Fifties and early Sixties . |
| 23 | One of these was James Larkin 's Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union , the ITGWU . |
| 24 | The earliest of these was Sir Donald Monro ( 1884 ) , High Dean of the Isles , who wrote in 1549 ( Darling & Boyd , 1964 ) . |
| 25 | The most prominent of these was Kevin Schuler , an All Black replacement in Wales and Ireland in 1989 , a captain in the second-tier divisional side in 1991 and an All Black in Australia this year . |
| 26 | At first , the most important of these was John Wheatley , a socialist businessman from a Glasgow Catholic background who , as a highly successful Minister of Housing in the 1924 Labour Government , carried some political weight . |
| 27 | Although the most prominent of these was Richard Woodman , a Warbleton ironfounder , most of the Lewes martyrs were fairly ordinary people . |
| 28 | One of these was Qaryat al-Fau in Saudi Arabia , located on the route connecting the south-west comer of the peninsula with Syria and the Arabian Gulf . |
| 29 | One of these was Tom Potter , a colliery director from Nottinghamshire , whose evidence seem to contain reference to the seed that grew into Foxton Lift . |
| 30 | Amongst these was Lord Lytton ( Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 1803–1873 ) the novelist , who was a minister in Disraeli 's Government . |