Example sentences of "of [Wh pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I told my friends Bill Page and Bill Adams , both of whom were bus inspectors and the first of whom had been at Whitgift with me , they were astounded . |
| 2 | None of the attackers , all of whom had been of subject races , had survived to be questioned . |
| 3 | Comfortably and expensively furnished , the apartments were staffed by servants many of whom had been with the lady Alianor from the time of her marriage . |
| 4 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 5 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
| 6 | An analysis by marital status and number of children showed that for the married the main difference was between those with no children , 17 per cent of whom had been in a residential home , and those with one or more , for whom the proportion was 5 per cent . |
| 7 | On 10 May , Mrs W , the mother of fifteen children , eight of whom had been in care since the previous November , began an appeal against the care orders holding them . |
| 8 | She was also handling an interesting portfolio including two public companies , one of which was a small USM quoted property investment company , Capital and Regional Properties , run by Martin Barber , Xavier Pullen and Roger Boy-land , all of whom had been in the property business together for 20 years . |
| 9 | John Allen , chief negotiator for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said : ‘ It is disgraceful that these workers , many of whom have been with the company all their working life , are just thrown on the scrap heap , while the Government sits on its hands and does nothing . ’ |
| 10 | After more than 20 years of Medau teaching in Edinburgh , Muriel Jessop is taking the step of handing over her class — much to the sadness of her class members , some of whom have been with her for a larger number of those years . |
| 11 | Training is given by experienced practitioners , many of whom have been through the programme . |
| 12 | Retiring members included the Chairman , of who had been in post since 1984 , seeing the Council successfully through a record number of reviews of its work , ways of working and reconstitutions . |