Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf . |
2 | Franca explained that Alison had been quite overcome by seeing the familiar school scene and the dancer , some of whom were professionals whom she knew . |
3 | Certain non-royal persons , all of whom were men who had held official posts , were honoured as gods during the course of Egypt 's long history . |
4 | In 1701 – 2 , the Whig mayor of the small corporation of Wilton , Wiltshire , created nineteen new burgesses , all of whom were Dissenters who did not even qualify under the terms of the Corporation Act , with the result that in 1702 he was able to reverse the defeat suffered by the Whigs in the election of the previous year . |
5 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
6 | Many of them were students who worked their passage to Liverpool as cattlemen aboard the cattle-steamers before the days of full-scale refrigeration , and used the Liverpool office to cash their generous allowances . |
7 | I missed out at geography , which I loved , English Lit , French , art and maths , all of which were subjects I enjoyed . |
8 | The student 's willingness , however , to involve John and to try and behave fairly towards him were acts which potentially respected both his rationality and his vulnerability . |
9 | They belonged to they were ships you know , but they had one sailing ship , the herself , They made a road into quarry you see . |
10 | It claimed that those detained ‘ have been involved in terrorism the use of violence , including murder , intimidation , arson and the use of explosives ’ and asserted that among them were persons who , but for the intimidation of witnesses , would have been charged with : |
11 | ‘ Among them were people she had met on her earlier visit . |