Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] them [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 2 | Secondly , the triangular relationship between the UK , the USA and the European Community will be examined in order to assess how civil aviation between them might develop in the near future . |
| 3 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 4 | However , contrary to popular belief other predators , such as lions and cheetahs , never take wind direction into account when stalking , and the faintest whiff of them will cause a herd to become alert . |
| 5 | They are even optimistic about conflicts between women , on the grounds that paying attention to them can produce gains in feminine self-realization ( e.g. Caplan 1981 , Orbach and Eichenbaum 1987 ) . |
| 6 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
| 7 | For instance , it is estimated that around 1m of the 1.7m new jobs forecast for the mid 1990s will be in the professional and managerial areas , and demographics suggest that a substantial proportion of them will have to be filled by women . |
| 8 | It might also have disturbed them to know that in such circumstances what is still a fairly new and effective lifeline for them would have been ruled out — insurance . |
| 9 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 10 | Now the whole bloody lot of them will have gone to ground and the gods know when we 'll get another chance like this . ’ |
| 11 | It would not matter that the consequence of so holding might be that the defendants , if they should lose the action , would satisfy the European Court of Human Rights that any verdict against them would constitute a breach of article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms . |
| 12 | The conventions are so rigorous that any break with them would require a new genre ; the editorial leaflet makes this clear enough : |
| 13 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 14 | The two principal isotopes of oxygen , , are chemically very nearly identical , but modest fractionation between them can occur when oxygen is partitioned between phases in which it is bound in very different ways . |
| 15 | And any fallout from them would affect most of the southern half of England I think , is this true ? |
| 16 | She knew what results in work a given number of them would produce in a given space of time . |
| 17 | In the long-term he hoped that Soviet control over them would break down , allowing the re-creation of a common identity in Europe ‘ from the Atlantic to the Urals ’ . |
| 18 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 19 | The agreement was prompted by the visit of a G-7 delegation to Moscow on Oct. 26-28 , which had threatened that republics ' attempts to divide up the Soviet Union 's estimated $60,000 million debt between them would threaten further Western financial aid . |
| 20 | McLeish had to remind himself that the dead girl behind them would have felt none of this dank chill . |
| 21 | If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss . |
| 22 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |